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opinion, that long and new dung is injurious to grain- 

 erops. 



I promised to give you an account of my experi- 

 ments in cultivating the common field-peas, some 

 twenty years ago at Wyoming, in which they were en- 

 tirely free from bugs : but this I must postpone for the 

 present. 



I am, dear sir, 



Faithfully yours 



Timothy Pickering. 



RicHAiiu Peters Esq. 



Fiwn a Boston Newspaper printed in March 1768. 



Some Thoughts upon Mildews. 



As the public are now, on all sides, calling upon 

 every one to communicate his observations upon any 

 thing which relates to agriculture ; perceiving in read- 

 ing M. Duhamel's husbandry, that there are a great 

 variety of opinions, about the nature and cause of mil- 

 dews upon grain, even among the most celebrated gen- 

 tlemen farmers in Europe ; and desirous, if possible, to 

 contribute my mite towards any useful discovery ; I 

 have ventured to shew my opinion, founded on such 

 observations as fully satisfy myself; as it appears to 

 me perfectly to correspond \w\Xh facts ; and in a natural 

 and easy way to account for every appearance and ef- 

 fect of that disorder in grain. 



