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be also thought i: would grow but.. .is they did not oblerve to sow the
then, said he, l have known it to white Lammas wheat earliest, because
die afterwards. I asked him how he of its being last •ipe ; he replied, be
knew it was for that cause it died ; found no ^difference in that, but that
he replied, hecause he had in such it was ripe as Soon as the other to
cale lcratched up the root, and sound the full.
there was not flour or milk sushci- The original of brining and liming
cnt to maintain the blade till it could feed-wheat Seems to be purely an En-
lake rcot.
glish practice. Sharrock Says, brin-
I met sarmer White and farmer ing and liming wheat may deSend it
Bachalour ol Litchfield in the mar- against grubs, infects, and worms,
ket ; l told larracr White how* thin and Sortiry the grain ; but he can-
his Seed wheat proved that he had not think it any Security against
Seat me, and that it was exceed- blights, &c.
ingly blighted ; and that 1 was fa- 1 had wheat brined and limed for
tithed, let the farmers pretend what fowing, but, much rain coming, and
they will, that blighted wheat, if the ground being wet, l could not
Sowed late in the year, though it Sow it Sor a Sortnight. At a Sort-
might come to a blade, yet the flour night's end l had Several people with
or milk that ought to maintain it me about measuring harvest work ;
v ould he Spent beSore it conld loot So asked their opinion, whether Such
more, and then, iS Srosts came, it wheat would grow or not ; one Said,
v. cruld be in danger oS dying— he had known wheat that had nor
They agreed with me, that in caSe been brined and limed above a week,
it was lase Sowed, it was thcir opi- .and a great deal of it did not grow.
nion also, but it would do well iS Another, it deprnded on the high
lowed early ; but Said Sarmer lake, degree to which it was limed, Sor,
hour aSter when I was Speaking to it was so highly limed that it shrunk
him about it, let it be Sowed early and shriveled, it would not grow ;
or late, give me a Sull-bodied wheat but, in cafe the kind locked plump
Many Satmers. and indeed all l and Smooth, there was no danger.
have talked with on tbe subject, a- A third was of opinion, that there
gree that musty wheat, though not was great difference in the manner
grown out, will nor grow.—'l Sup- of bnning it, for, if the wheat had
ple it is, becauSe the Seminal part been steeped in brine, it would be
is malted, though it docs not out- much apter to burn by lying in lime,
wardly shew itself, as it docs when than it would have been only Sprink-
is grown out.
led with brine in the morning it
Parmer Biggs Says, he always Sows was limed.——Note, this brined
tae Blueberry wheat, that is, the wheat was not sowed till November
tath-ripe wheat.—The mealmen the 7th, which was sea en weeks af-
de not like the white Lammas wheat; ter it was limed, and yet it grew
shey say it does not cast So fine a and came up so thick, that it leem-
^ir homas Elton also Says, they ed to have received no prejudice.
Irs om Sow the whim Lammas wheat ;
2nd bath he and Sarmer Biggs Say, the
^'almen know it Srom the other
^er than chey do who Sow it,—
l homas Elton fays, he has been at
It wt as universally observed, ^^ this last
winter, that the wheat that wat killed
by the winter oS 1-o8, was not
killed by the frosts, though they were
very intense, but by the winds,
Reading with it, and could not have which drove the frosty particles in
o much by twelve shillings in a load Snch a manner, as to penetrate int^
^sot the Blueberty wheat, though the roots of the corn ; this may bo
^ tha lame good n^sa, l ashed hiui, supposed to he effected with their angles^