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bandry-=this can't be meant for Such as I. Why"tis Latin! My poor old Schooldame, I well remember, when we came to a cramp word, uS5ed to tell us it was Latin,-and bid us Skip it. And go I was going to do with this. Howsomever, the gentleman Said that it was all for the instruction of /armers, and“ particularly" of those who had no

means of learning Such things but by a weekly newspaper--which! is

exactly my cCase. So I went boldly all through, trom great A to ampersänd, as the Saying is; but, for the life of me I could make out no more than what I have 8aid, except that the /ungus is first orange- coloured, and afterwards cAocolate-coloured; but not one word about mending its complexion. I was looking Sharp to be told howit comes

about, and what is the reason of it, and when it is' likely to come,

and how it may be stopped; but there is nothing of this Sort, but the old Story of the barberry bush, which my old grandmother used

to talk of above fifty years ago, before ever Agricultural Societies

were dreamed of; 50 there I got no new wrinkle, as they 5ay=-You vnderstand me, Mr. Printer. And yet the gentleman tells us again,

at the last, that“* all farmers ought to-peruse this, as being of infi-

nite importance, that they Should all know about this Same orange-

Coloured, chocolate-coloured, enveloped, parasitic, lonaitudinal, imperforate, cellular, Fungus which germinates in a central positzon, on pores and

glumes?: It it be 50, quoth 1, they must be 3 deal cuter than I, or

zhey will read to Special little purpose.

So in all this puzzle, what Should 1 do? I takes my hat and Stick, and walks over the green to our parson., He goes partners with me and two more neighbours in the paper, and his turn is next to mine=»

Mayhap you may know him, Mr. Printer--Parson Sly--as clever a man, and as willing to give a neighbour advice, or do him a kindnessy

and a merry humersome man too as any inthe hundred of M% to go no further. So I thought would e'en ask him about it, and I gave him the paper, and put my thumb on the place--Let's See, Sam, Says he, let's See--and he puts on his barnacles, and begins to read; looking very grave, and rubbing and scratching his bald pate, and Screwing up his face, and curling his forehead, and Seeming to be right on in a puzzle and a quandary. At Jast he threw down the Paper, and Said--Neiglibour Sam, Says he, these here things are out in your way and mine; what the gentleman means I cannot conceive,

but I dare 5ay he 1s a very learned gentleman, and a famous dbot!omzySt==

But 5ays 1, Lhave been thinking of writing to the Printer tp get all this explained--Let that alone, Says he, I am afraid you would make

but a poor hand on?t. Haowsomever, let's wait and See the upshot of

the business.

Welt, Sir, not long after comes Mr. Siy, and tells me that he has been inquiring about this business, and has heard from two or three very great agriculturists(nat farmers, Mr. Printer; no! not farmers) and had even read it intwo or three places in print, that the Societies had found out, that mildew always comes in cold and wet Summers. --Now, 5ays he, Sam, this is Something to go upon, and between the two accounts we may come to Some certainty about it. Surely no Summer was ever fitter for making proof of itthan this. Till now very Jately we have had nothing but cold and wet weather--we ought certainly to have had a lamentable mildew. 1 determined ta watch'my wheat very closely. AlIl the month of June, which they Say 1s the most ticklish time, I was at it early and, late; but not a Single Spot did I See, either of orange-colour or of chocolate-colour; hut 1 Saw Some yellowish Stripes, where the land had been moist in wins

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