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return of wheat has been from twenty to 

 twenty-five bushels per acre. Barley, may be 

 stated at the same produce : but where sown 

 in small quantities, and under particular culti- 

 vation, I have heard of thirty, forty, and fifty 

 fold being reaped. Taking the average of the 

 general crop, however, I think it may be fairly 

 stated at the above increase, without the 

 trouble of manuring. That useful article of 

 food, the potatoe thrives well, and returns upon 

 an average thirty bushels for one. Indian 

 corn is grown ; and every kind of garden 

 vegetable, with water melons, and pumpkins, 

 comes to great perfection, when spared by the 

 locusts. Some have raised the tobacco plant, but 

 it has not yet met with a fair trial, any more 

 than the sowing of hemp and flax. I failed in 

 the experiment of sowing some winter wheat, 

 which I brought with me from England ; but 

 I attribute this failure, to its being sown in an 

 exposed situation, and too early in the autumn, 

 the plant having been of too luxuriant a growth, 

 before the severe frosts came on. — If sown in 

 sheltered spots, and later in the season, there is 

 every probability of its surviving the winter, 

 which would be of great advantage in agricul- 

 ture, from the short period we have for pre- 

 paring the land and sowing it in spring. We 



