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than the common yellow corn. It is alfo more dil- 

 pofed to multiply fuckers, — an additional recommen- 

 dation of it, when planted to be cut, in its green 

 flate, for horfes and cattle, and efpecially for milch 

 cows ; and its time of planting may be fo regulated 

 as to furnifh a fupply of food, juft when the com- 

 mon paflures ufually fail. I am inclined to doubt 

 whether any other green food will afford butter of 

 equal excellence. 



WHEAT. 



Although no idea appears to me more vifionary 

 than that " New-England could furnifh bread-ftuff 

 for the whole of the United States j" yet I am ready 

 to believe that her hulbandry may be fo improved 

 as to render her independent of the fouthern Hates, 

 for every fpecies of bread of common confumption. 

 I fay of common confumption ; becaufe even New- York, 

 an exporter of wheat and flour, imports Richmond 

 flour for ufe in her cities ; becaufe Virginian wheat 

 makes whiter flour, and of a fuperiour quality to 

 her own. 



I have fcarcely feen or heard of any fpring wheat 

 grown on the fea-board of old Maflachufetts or New- 

 Hampfliire, that has not been more or lefs infected 

 with fmut; fo as generally to require wafhing to 

 fit it for bread. Some Spanifli wheat lately cultiva- 

 ted by Nathaniel Gilman, Efq. of Exeter, is the only 

 exception. This is a wheat of lingular excellence ; 

 and hitherto, Mr. Gilman informed me, has been 

 perfectly exempt from fmut and mildew. The fize 

 of the grains, and their weight by the bufliel, are 

 moft extraordinary — the latter riling (if I miftakc 

 not) to 67 or 70 pounds. In the lafl year, he fup- 



