YEO 
far afunder; My man has complained 
greatly of the trouble they have given 
him in this refpeét. But I have no doubt, 
that if the practice of fetting wheat this 
way became. more general, this difficulty 
would vanifh; as it is not complained of 
in the counties above mentioned, How- 
‘ever I hope, if I live, in the courfe of 
this year to prefent the public with a 
methed of fetting wheat at PERFECTLY 
EXACT difiances through a whole field, and 
as EXPEDITIOUSLY as the common broad- 
caf? fowing ; vshich can therefore be applied 
do farms of any magnitude; and when a 
peck of feed is found to be fufficient for 
an acre (and in fome land, much lefs), 
the faving on a large farm muft be im- 
mente. . 
I have determined the diftances at which 
T place any fibrous-rooted plant whatever. 
By meaturing the length of the roots of 
a few full grown plants, I find the general 
length which they grow to in that land ; 
for different foils, and different degrees of 
richnefs, produce different degrees of lux- 
uriance; and confequently different lengths 
of ‘the roots. I then place the feeds, if 
I fow; or the plants, if I tranfplant; at 
diftances from each other, equal to'favice 
the length of the roots; fuppofing fome 
of the roots to extend horizontally, and 
that then they will not interfere with each 
other, but juft meet, and abiorb all the 
nourifhment of the whole furface; but 
here I make no allowance for intervening 
weeds. 
Should any of your readers wifh for 
Further information on the fubjeét of this 
jetter, I fhall chearfully communicate what 
ican, if they addrefs, poft-paid, to the 
Rev. Dr. Pike, Chapter Coffee-houfe, St. 
Paul’s Church-yard (whither my London 
Jetters ave ufually directed). Tam, Sir, 
Your refpectful reader, 
Fam. 275 1800. Vb eP nce, 
P. S. Thefe methods are equally applica- 
ble to oats and barley; I have had much 
finer corn of both thefe forts thereby, than 
in the common way. Icounted the ftalks 
on one plant of barley, about three years 
ago, which had thirty ears, and moit of them 
fine. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. . 
SIR, : 
N order to add fome weight to the in- 
genious propofal of W. C. as ftated 
in your Jaft magazine, as well as to do 
juftice toa perfon who previoully fuggelted 
a nearly fimivar plan, I beg the favor of a 
corner in fome of the future numbers of 
Meafuring Of Time in Mufic. 
{March 1, 
your mifcellany, for-an extra& from an 
advertifement prefixed to a pleafing con- 
certo, compofed by Mr. Wright, then of 
Stockton; and publifhed, if I recollect 
right, the latter part of the year’r796.  - 
After fome farcaftic innuendos on the 
vitiated tafte of both compofers’ and 
{cholars, to which, perhaps, the compa- 
ratively little celebrity of this work may be 
attributed, Mr. Wright adds as follows : 
‘¢ In order to prevent the difputesthat 
fo frequently arife concerning the TIME a 
Piece ought to be played in, the following 
fimple contrivance is recommended to 
trial. Tie a fmall key or a feal, as a 
plummet, to a bit of coarfe thread, the 
length of which is afcertained for the pur- 
pole; this held fteadily in the fingers, and 
a trifling motion given to it, time may be 
accurately counted from its vibrations 
(ofcillations). It muft be obferved, this 
is not meant to beat time during a per~ 
formance, but to give the time previous- 
to playing the Piece, by counting: a few 
bars from it; which, to a good timift, 
is quite fufficient ; and if to its fimplicity 
is added, that it gives no ftandard or {cale, 
and of courfe leaves the compofer quite 
unfettered as to his meafures, it wiil be 
found a practicable contrivance where the 
elaborate chronometres of Monfieur Loulie 
and Monfieur Sauveur, with the metro-. 
metre of later invention, have failed of 
fuccefs, In the following concerto a re- 
gulation of this kind is annexed to every 
fubjeét, and the meafure given from the 
breadth of harpfichord and piano-forte 
keys, in preference to inches, the former 
being always at hand, and the difference 
in inftruments in that refpect fo trifling as 
to occafion little or no alteration. Thus 
at the beginning of the firft movement 
will be found 289, which fignifies that 
the thread, with the weight appended to 
it, meafured acrofs 28 keys, will vibrate 
(ofcillate) the length of a minim. Tn the 
next movement lengthened to thirty-two, 
each vibration (cfcillation) will be a 
crotchet, and fo on with the reft. ‘This, 
it is prefumed, will be of fome fervice to 
thofe who wifh to obferve the time a 
compofer means; and as for thofe who 
make what was the andante in days of 
old, the allegra and preffo of the prefents 
by all means let them go forward as fait. 4 
as they can; for even they are fure of this 
to their honor and comfort, that ¢4e faffer 
a perfon travels, the fooner he gets to the 
end of bis journey.” 
It would appear from the concluding 
words that Mr. Wright is of opinion, 
that a paflion for playing too falt is pre- 
vy. tents 
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