134 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



SECTION XX. 



On Transplanting WJicat— further Remarks on Grubs — and on Barley 



Wheat. 



vJn the 7th of July 1812, two acres at Plantation-house were 

 sown broad cast with nine pecks of barley wheat, which were 

 ploughed in, bnt not harrowed. Although this is the sixth crop 

 from this land, since it was broken up, without using any ma- 

 nure, the barley wheat became so extremely thick, in seven 

 weeks after sowing, that it was apprehended, the crop might be 

 lost unless it were thinned. Mr. Breame, an experienced farmer 

 from Norfolk, and indeed every other person who has viewed it, 

 declares he never beheld so exuberant a specimen of corn. All 

 agree it ought to be thinned — and various modes have been 

 proposed. 



That which I have preferred is one T can pursue with confi- 

 dence, as it is the same I adopted in the year 1809, with some 

 wheat that became too thick and exuberant in the spot where it 

 was sown. As the process which was then used, differs, I believe, 

 in some respects from the practice in Europe, and particularly in 

 the age and size of the transplanted corn, I shall here transcribe 

 the notices I have retained of the crop alluded to. 



1809, Nov. 9. — Sowed a small parcel of wheat received from 

 Van Dieman's land. 



1809, Dec. 20. — At this time it was grown 12 to 18 inches high, 

 and so extremely thick and exuberant, that it becomes necessary 

 to thin it. Two beds were this day prepared, each measuring 

 two rods in length, and half a rod in breadth. In No. 1, whole 

 tufts, the produce of one grain, as drawn from the seed bed, were 



