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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XVI. 5,2. 



his feed, at a confiderable diftatice from any others. Thus, when 

 his radiflies are fit for ufe, he takes ten or twelve, that he moft ap- 

 proves, and plants them at leaft one hundred yards from others, that 

 blolFom at the fame time. In the fame manner he treats all his other 

 plants, varying the circumflances according to their nature. 



" About the year 1772 a friend of his fent him a few grains of a 

 fmall kind of Indian corn, not larger than goofe fhot, which produc- 

 ed from eight to ten ears on a ftalk. They were alfo fmall, and 

 he found, that {gw of them ripened before the froft. Some of the 

 largeft and earlieft he faved, and planted them between rows of a 

 larger and earlier kind, and the produce v/as much improved. lie 

 then planted from thofe that had produced the greatefl number of 



the largeft ears, and that w^ere the firft ripe, and the next feafon the 

 produce with refpe6l to quality and quantity was preferable to any, 



that he had ever planted before. 



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common method of faving feed-corn by taking the ears 



from the heap is attended, be fays, with two difad vantages 



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the taking the largefl ears, of which in general only one grows on a 

 flalk, which leflens the produce ; and the other is taking ears that 

 ripen at different times. 



" Many years ago Mr. Cooper renewed all the feed of his winter 



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grain from a fingle plant, which he had obferved to be more produc- 

 tive, and of a better quality than the reft ; which he is fatisfied has 

 been of great ufe. And he is of opinion, that all kinds of garden 

 vegetables may be improved by the methods defcribed above, par- 

 ticular care being taken that different kinds of the fame vegetables do 

 not bloom at the fame time near together ; fince by this means they 



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injure one another." Communications to the Board of Agriculture, 

 Vol. I. part 3. Letter from Dr. Prieflley. 



2. As the varieties of plants are believed to be produced by different 

 foils and climates, which varieties will afterwards continue through 



many generations, even when the plants are removed to other foils 



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