pofed one hundred bufhels were raifed in Exeter, 

 All proceeded from a fingle ear which an American 

 failor plucked in a field near Malaga, and brought to 

 Exeter. It fortunately fell into Mr. Oilman's hands, 

 by whofe attention its produdl has been thus in- 

 creafed. 



In the Diftrid of Maine, efpecially by the aid 

 of its new lands, probably much more wheat will 

 be grown than will be required for its own con- 

 fumption : its climate being better adapted to 

 the growing of fmall grain than of Indian corn : 

 although I fhould think the fmall Canada corn 

 might fucceed in all but the more northern parts, 

 or where the foil is clayey and cold. In fomc 

 parts of New-York, eaflward of Albany, where at 

 the firft clearing oflF the wood fine crops of wheat 

 were grown, they now fufFer extremely, or faiL 

 The foil is clayey — heaved by the winter's frofts, by 

 which, and alternate thaws, the roots of the wheat 

 are gradually thrown out, and the plants perifli. 

 Such was the information given me by a farmer 

 refident there. While the land was frefh, enriched 

 and warmed by the coat of vegetable manure which 

 for ages had been accumulating on its furface, the 

 wheat was exempt from this difafter. The abund- 

 ant manures attainable by a greatly improved fyftem 

 of hufbandry, may leflfen or prevent the continuance 

 of the evil. 



WINTER WHEAT. 



For a year or two after the purchafe of my little 

 farm, I effayed the culture of barley and wheat : but 

 finding the ground infefted with the feeds of annual 

 weeds which fprung up with fpring-fown grain Sj 



