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mon praaice to stack their wheat out of 
doors, on hovels, which is seldom taken in 
for thrashing till May and the two succeeding 
months. 
I hey have no dependence upon wheat 
sti aw foi the maintenance of cattle in winter. 
It would be mucli within the line of truth to 
say, that more than one-half of the wheat in 
England is not usually thrashed till after Lady- 
day, the straw' arising from which, in the 
country, is reserved for thatching, and litter 
for saddle and other horses, and cattle, in the 
remainder of the summer and autumn, before 
they begin to thrash the new corn . 
Mr. Young's recommendation of a more 
extended cultivation of Potatoes as food for 
man, and as a means of preventing future 
dearths, puts us in mind of a plan of Sir 
John Sinclair s when bread wus at a very 
high pi ic e, five or six years since, which was 
conveyed to the public in papers circulated 
to the Grand Juries of all the counties, — re- - 
commending to the farmers to sow^ a larger 
