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importance ; therefore the farmer would do well by having due attention to the 

 state of the weather, when employed on this business, 



10. As a crop of spring wheat is so much more valuable than of any other kind 

 of spring sown corn, there are good grounds for supposing that top dressings 

 cannot any other way be more beneficially employed. 



Before I quit these remarks, I will beg permission to stale a further advantage 

 in the cultivation of spring wheat. 



11. On various soils, and in some seasons, it often happens that the autumnal 

 sown crop of wheat may be seen to fail and to go ofF in patches. 



In the beginning of April, by raking spring wheat into the vacant places, as also 

 ■where the wheat plants may appear weak and thin set, the uniformity of the crop 

 can be restored, and the spring wheat will be ready for the sickle quite as early as 

 the autumnal sown. 



And although such seeming kind of mixture in the crop would render its pro- 

 duce highly improper for seed, still, for the miller's use, no objectionable defect or 

 deficiency would be found therein from such apparent mixture. 



The Rt. Hon. Lord Sheffield, 

 P. B. A. 



Woodborough Hall, near Nottingham> 

 January the 2d, 1806. 



