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of the aliments in the stomach, cough and Dyspnea or difficult respi- 

 ration, 



In the first volume of the Transactions of the New-York Society 

 for the promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, 1801, Mr, 

 L'Hommedieu stated that a fine piece of wheat being lodged by 

 heavy rains, and perceived soon after to be infected with mildew, was 

 cut about three weeks before the usual time of cutting, although in a 

 perfectly green state — it lay spread abroad upon the stubble until it 

 was dry enough to prevent its caking in the sheaf. The grain was 

 found to be of a fine color, small — bul the heaviest wheat grown on 

 that farm that season, and the sti;iw was remarkably bright, not a 

 speck upon it. 



Young, in his Annals, says, when the wheat stem is seen to have a 

 very particular cast of color of bluish green, it is surely affected. 



Mr. Elliott. — I have given much attention to mildew in my "agricul- 

 tural labors. When the wheat is attacked early it suffers no great 

 harm, but if struck when the ear is formed, and that too just under 

 the ear, it becomes highly injurious. I then cut it as early as I could. 

 Mildew appears to me like sap exuding from the plant — that sap 

 which would otherwise enter the grain. I have sometimes lost a third 

 of my wheat by it, and it seems to strike where the land was richest 

 and best tilled. I have by bad weather been driven into February to 

 sow my wheat-*-of that crop I could not find one good head on many 

 acres, and what we left for gleaners was left by them. When wheat 

 is mildewed, cut it early. I know of no other remedy. The greenest 

 wheat I ever saw cut in my life, produced very fine grain and heavier 

 than other wheat. 



Judge Vcfn Wyck. — Mildew is an ancient disease, — it is mentioned 

 in the Old Testament. The Romans complained much of it by the 

 name of Rubigo (rust.) England is much troubled with it, owing to 

 her moist climate. It appears to be more destructive on calcareous 

 than on other soils— not troublesome in dry summer weather. Marshall 

 recommends common salt. Sir John Sinclair and Sir Humphrey Davy 

 recommend sprinkling the plant with solution of salt. Mildew is not 



