On Mildew. 171 



to bring forward our grain as early as possible that it 

 may htfull and ripe before the common mildews come. 



A New-England-man".*. 



* I never knew who was the author of this theory of mil- 

 dews ; but am inclined to think it was Peter Oliver Esq. 

 then a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Two 

 or three years after its publication, I became acquainted with 

 him. He lived in the country, and was fond of agricultural 

 enquiries and pursuits. To him also, I believe, the public 

 was indebted for a second edition of the Reverend Dr. El- 

 liot's essays on field husbandry, written more than sixty- 

 years ago ; the earliest American production on the subject. 



T. P. 



1st, January 1810. 



It is agreeable to know, that our countryman has long since 

 anticipated the ideas of the modern agriculturalists of Europe, 

 The fiequent injurious effects of new dung upon grain, espe- 

 cially wheat, are now fully ascertained, and were mentioned 

 in our first volume, in the paper on " smut in wheat." 



The proposition of the rope to agitate the grain, and shake 

 off the dew, has been recently proposed by British agricultu- 

 ral writers. 



J. M. 



