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tacked by it. Wheat being iown in autumn, 

 ana lying fo long on rhe land, the foil has not 

 fo good an opportunity to get dried after the 

 winter, by being expofed to the fun and air. 

 It may likewife be obferved,that, in years when 

 the feafon has caufed the leaf to be more abun- 

 dant, and to fmother the land the moft, the 

 mildew is moft prevalent. Late crops are more 

 given to this malady; and the caufe is the foil's 

 getting damper. I do not recollect to have 

 feen fpring wheat take the mildew ; owing, 

 I fuppofe, to its lying a lefs time on the 

 ground. 



Oats for meal, if early reaped, are much 

 finer in colour-, the ftraw is better ; and there 

 is lefs lofs in the field. 



Barley, by being cut foon enough, becomes 

 much better for making; even though cut fo 

 early that fome part of it may not be ripe. 

 Were you to let it (land until it were all ripe, 

 it would flill differ in refped to the dying or 

 ripening of part; confequently, when wetted 

 to undergo the necefiary procefs for malting, as 

 it died at different times, fo will it have dif- 

 ferent times of refurrection or fprouting. Kill- 

 ing it all at one time by art, may enable the 



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