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smaller, but it is cultivated generally with more suc- 

 cess. 



It is believed, there is nothing gained by letting wheat 

 stand till it is fully ripe ; that is, tiii the heads turn 

 down, before it is harvested. If it stand so long con- 

 sivlerable wiil be shelled out before it is got into the 

 barn; and even if the bulk in this case be greater, the 

 weight may not be increased ; and it is known that the 

 best flour is made irom the earliest harvested wheat. 

 If it is aifected with rust, cut it down as soon as the ker- 

 nai becomes affected ; it will be the only way to pre- 

 serve the crop, and it is said to improve after being cut. 

 The same ma}'^ be said of rye. On*^ acre is a large 

 day's work for a reaper. It should be remove! to the 

 barn when there is a slight dew. 



Some calculators have supposed, that the average 

 produce of this grain over the whole face of the globe, 

 will not exceed six bushels reaped, for one bushel 

 sown. Mr. Livingston has calculated the average quan- 

 tity of wheat per acre, upon unmanured lands, through- 

 out the middle, northern, and eastern states, without 

 taking in the new settlements where the yield is much 

 greater, to be thirteen bushels. In the southern Atlan- 

 tic states, it is much less. It appears that in the single 

 district of Newbury — Newtown, Massachusetts, there 

 were raised in 1817, by thirty-two persons, on lifty- 

 eight acres of land, thirteen hundred apd twenty-tive 

 bushels of wheat; making an average of twenty-two 

 bushels to the acre, an average greater, it is believed, 

 than that of some of the most favoured wheat countries, 

 llr. Emery raised thirty-three bushels on an acre ; and 

 Mr. JVezcall eighty-one bushels on two and a half acres. 

 In New Hampshire, five persons, raised on eleven acres, 

 three hundred and fifty-two bushels, equal to thir- 

 ty-two bushels to the nzve. If farmers will look over 

 the accounts of late experiments on spring wheat, even 

 on the sea-board in Massachusetts, where it is supposed 

 to be the most subject to blight, they will find the aver- 

 age produce to exceed twenty bushels. Mr. Tuft of 

 Uxbridge, Mass. estimates the quantity of whea raised 

 in that town for three years preceding 1814, to have 

 been one thousand bushels annually. We beiieve there- 

 fore that its produce is much more certain and profita- 



