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habits are not well ascertained. He is making dreadful havoc in the 

 wheat regions, producing in many cases, an entire destruction of ex- 

 tensive fields of the most promising appearance; and has advanced at 

 the rate of about forty miles a year. The same insect, it is believed, 

 though the identity is not perfectly ascertained, has attacked rye and 

 oats with alarming success. The cultivation of wheat has on this 

 account been abandoned in some parts of the state ; and in what 

 have heretofore been deemed some of the most productive wheat re- 

 gions in New York. 



Inquiries and experiments on this subject are of immense import- 

 ance. A perfect preventive or security would be worth millions to 

 the country. 



12. Remedies or protection against blight or other accident. 



13. The extirpation of weeds particularly injurious to the wheat 

 crop, such as tares, cockle, chess, garlic, and the Canada thistle ; and 

 any machinery by which the grain may be cleansed of " foul stuff." 



14. The experience of farmers in the cultivation of wheat crops 

 successively on the same land ; and in sowing clover with the wheat 

 with a view to ploughing it in as manure for a succeeding crop ; and 

 whether customarily ploughed in with the stubble ; or depastured ; or 

 mowed for one or more years. 



15. The general subject of sowing grass with grain; and the value 

 in such case of a stubble crop for winter fodder. 



16. Harvesting. 



Time and state of cutting ; and whether early or late cutting be 

 preferable ; the time, in the opinion of some persons, making a mate- 

 rial difference in the amount and value of the crop. 



Modes of harvesting ; reaping or cradling ; and cost by day or piece 

 work ; average amount of a day's work. 



17. Threshing and Cleaning. 



Threshing machines. Winnowing machines. 



18 Manufacture of Flour. Various qualities. Number of bushels 

 required for a barrel. Miller's charges and profits. 



19. Construction of mills and flouring machinery. Water, steam, 

 and wind power. Domestic mills. 



20. Value and uses of bran. 



21. Value and uses of wheat straw. 



22. Value of a wheat crop compared with other crops. Average 

 yield. 



