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Indian corn. On the contrary, our millers sometimes 

 damp the wheat, to prevent the bran from being ground 

 so fine as to pass through the cloth, and speckle the 

 flour. This account is given to shew the effects of mois- 

 ture in the English and Irish climate, in comparison 

 with that of our country. I believe that plaister will not 

 answer so well in a moist, as in a moderately dry cli- 

 mate. A very wet season here, is not the most favourable 

 to plaistered grounds. The advantages of the gyps, over 

 other manures, are most perceptible in dry seasons. I 

 doubt, however, be the effects of climate what they may, 

 either on products or manures, whether in England, the 

 plaister has had a long or fair trial. I find, by some late 

 English publications, that the knowledge of it is not 

 extensive, and its use confined to a few agriculturists ; 

 some of whom give the most flattering accounts of 

 their success in its application. 



Many of my fields are limed as highly as they will 

 bear. Some part of my land is fresh ; a small part re- 

 mains in an exhausted state. I apply the plaister to all, 

 and do not find any difference unfavourable to that which 

 has been limed. Some years ago, I sowed clover with 

 wheat in the autumn, on a field highly limed. I plais- 

 tered a part of this field, on the clover and wheat ; 

 the whole having had a light dressing of dung. The 

 succeeding season, the pkuster threw up the clover 

 in sucl"\| profusion as to choak the wheat crop, in a 

 great degree. I lost my wheat on the plaistered part, 

 as I mowed, not being able to reap, the crop. The 

 wheat on the other part was excellent, and the clover 

 of moderate growth. I am aware that part of my misfor- 

 tune in the loss of the wheat, may be attributed to the 



