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r s o w I N G PEASE, 



at any other feafon, and the moving the oats, which is the 

 method purfued by us, deftroys the heads that would 

 otherwife come to feed later in the year. Poffibly the fame 

 tillage in the fame feafon without fowing oats, might an- 

 fwer the end propofed. But having never made the ex- 

 periment I can fay nothing certain on that head. 



I am, &c. 



H. HOLLINGSWORTH. 



Head of Elk, Nov. 30, 1768 



ExtraB: of ahtter from MaPeterMiller, (/Ephratah, 

 to Mr. Charles Thomson, on the time of foxing 



V^h^sY.'^fo as toprcferve the crop from being worm-eaten. 



i4r-pHE peafe I fend you the fample of are the produce 

 ^ of lafl fummer. Their feed was very much worm- 

 eaten, but as the crop produced from them was no way 

 infeaed, it is evident that their fafety depended entirely 

 on the time of fowing; which is about the loth of June, 

 new ililc. This hath been confirmed to me by a farmer 



of a long experience. ^ ' 



*' The beft method would be to bcgm fowing towards 

 the latter end of May, and continue for a few weeks, fow- 

 ing fomc each week, or at the diftance of three or four 



days, in order to difcover whether the worm does not come 

 from fowing in an improper feafon. Some Albany pcafe 

 mi^ht likewife be tried as feed; all which I recommend to 

 the prudent confideration of your fociety. For, if you 

 could make any furc difcovery for the ufe of the country, 

 the public would be greatly indebted to you. 



*' Pcafe were heretofore very plenty in Pennfylvania: 

 I knew one farmer in Olcy who raifcd fixty bufhels at a 

 crop, and I did not hear that they were damaged at that 

 time by the worm. I rnuft not forget to tell you, that as 

 the peafe I have fent yoU are of an excellent kind, and 



very 



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