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ed ; burnt ; swarded ; or how used for two or three previous years ; 

 how prepared for sowing. 



5. Kind and quantity of manure ; use of lime; plaster; or any com- 

 post manure. 



6. The quantity of seed to an acre, and preparation of the seed ; 

 advantages or evils of steeping the seed. 



7. The time of sowing; week and day, if possible to be ascertained. 

 The importance of such an inquiry as this will appear for the reasons 

 which follow : 



It is strongly recommended that wheat should be sown before the 

 14th of September, so as to be well rooted before winter ; thus afford- 

 ing a better protection against frosts. Or else so late as not to germi- 

 nate before spiing; this method has been tried. Or frozen in water 

 in the autumn and kept so until the spring, which experiment is re- 

 ported to have been successful. It is often desirable for wheat to fol- 

 low Indian corn ; but Indian corn in general cannot be taken off in 

 season to get the wheat sown. The discovery of any mode, such as 

 the above for example, by which the necessity of this early sowing 

 could be obviated, would be of great advantage. 



Wheat sown early is more likely to have passed beyond injury from 

 the hot, damp, steaming weather, which occurs in July and occasions 

 rust. Query ; whether late sown wheat is not likely to pass beyond 

 that season before it gets into a condition to be injured, which is while 

 it is in the milk. 



Late sowing of wheat, as in some cases the last of May and the first 

 of June, it is stated, has carried the season of flowering beyond the 

 time of the wheat insect, and the crop has been saved. 



8. The diseases or accidents, if any ; whether affected by rust, 

 smut, or mildew; and any circumsiances of weather, situation, or par- 

 ticular condition of the plant connected or contemporaneous with such 

 occurrence. The situation or exposure of any blighted field, whether 

 high and airy, or low, damp, and confined. 



9. Whether or not affected by the vicinity of barberry bushes. 



10. Whether winter killed or not ; under what circumstances as it 

 regards the forwardness or lateness of the plant; and how affected by 

 the snow. 



11. Whether attacked by the Hessian fly or other insects; and pre- 

 ventives, if any. 



Wheat is, in many parts of the country, subject to injury from an 

 insect or worm, whose appearance is comparatively recent ; and whose 



