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is more firm and hard, as it is, on the contrary, made 

 more foft and fpongy by too much Moifture. 



The mod eafy and fure Remedy, that I have yet 

 found againft the Injury of thefe Infects, is, to plant 

 a Sort of Wheat that is lean: liable to be hurt by them ; 

 <viz. The White-cone (or bearded) Wheats which has 

 its Stalk or Straw like a Rufli, not hollow, but full of 

 Pith (except near the lower Part, and there 'tis very 

 thick and ftrong) : 'Tis probable it has Sap-Veffels 

 that lie deeper, ib as the young Infects cannot totally 

 deftroy them, as they do in other Wheat : For when 

 the Straw has the black Spots, which mew that the 

 Infects have been there bred, yet the Grain is plump, 

 when the Grey-cone and Lammas Wheat mixt with 

 it are blighted. This Difference might have been 

 from the different times of ripening, this being ripe 

 about a Week earlier than the Grey-cone, and later 

 than the Lammas: But its being planted together 

 both early and late, and at all Times of the Wheat- 

 feed Time, and this W T hite-cone always efcaping with 

 its Grain unhurt, is an Argument, that 'tis naturally 

 fortify'd againft the Injury of thefe Infects, which in 

 wet Summers are fo pernicious to other Sorts of 

 Wheat; and I can impute it to no other Caufe than 

 the different Deepnefs of the VelTels, the Straw of 

 other W T heat being very much thinner, and hollow 

 from Top to Bottom ; - this having a fmall Hollow at 

 Bottom, and there the Thicknefs betwixt the outer 

 Skin and the Cavity is more than double to that ia 

 other Sorts of Wheat ; fo that I imagine, the Infects 

 reach only the outermoft Veffels, and enough of the 

 inner VeiTels are left untouch'd to fupply the Grain. 



This Wheat makes very good Bread, if the Miller 

 does not grind it too fmall, or the Baker make his 

 Dough too hard, it requiring to be made fofter than 

 that of other Flour. 



A Bufhel of this White-cone Wheat will make 

 more Bread than a Bufhel of Lammas, and of the 



fame 



