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of agriculture.^ No other method appears to be so 

 certain, and it ought certainly to be adopted, as it is im- 

 possible to say to what extent the evil may proceed, if 

 not soon checked. 



The following piece appeared in the news papers in 

 the year 1804, and may allude to a disease similar to that 

 described by Mr. HoUingsworth. The importance of 

 such communications from farmers cannot be too ear- 

 nestly inforced. If the insect, called the ^'hessianjiy,'^^ 

 be really imported, it is not too much to say, that by an 

 early alarm, and by burning the straw of the crop in 

 which it first appeared, the whole race might have been 

 destroyed, and many millions saved to the United States. 

 Legislative interference in such cases is highly justi- 

 fiable, and the government of Maryland is urged to at- 

 tend to the insects that affect the wheat in that State^ 

 in a manner so alarming. 



UTICA, fNew York J July 2?id. 

 To the Editor of the Patriots 

 Sir, 



Having heard much complaint among the farmers^ 

 and others, of the destruction of their growing wheat 

 by the hessian fly ; and some from the rusty or blighty as 

 they suppose, by the easterly wind ; I was led to exa- 

 mine my own fields, and endeavour to discover the 

 cause of the yellow and rusty appearance of my own 

 wheat; particularly a small field of spring wheat, which 



-* Dickson's Agriculture. Lawrence's Farmer's Calender. 



