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ter. Oh, Says 1, there it is! As Sure as a gur that 15 a central pd- Siftzion, and the mischief is coming| Howsomever, after all, harvest is come, and 10! änd behold| of all the five-and-fifty years that I have been concerned, man and boy, in Shearing wheat, I never did once See the cosh fuller, nor the Straw cleaner, nor more boke to the ACTre, no nor, I dare 5ay, more bushels to the acre neither. What'a Strange affair is this!
Being now more puzzled than ever with all the“* useful and im« portant things" I have learned aboat the mildew, I went to the Parson again. He laughed, and Seemed mightily tickled with 5ome joke I did not understand, and Said--Sam, Says he, now is your time; print a string of Queries, it is the agricultural fashion=The Board of Agriculture did 50 when it was conzulted by the Parlia- ment--the Societies do So--and the Secretary, who has puzzled us 59 confoundedly, did 50 in his Second letter. Give him a quid pro quo. Print your gquerzies. That I would with all my heart, Says“35 18.1 knew what either of those things is. Why, 5ays he, a Query 1Sany question that happens td come into your head, and quzd pro quo is Latin, and means a questzon for a query; which, in the present case, for what I See, may be a very fair answer. Why then 50 I will, Says 1, for I am Sure I can do Something in that way. Aye, aye, do 50, Says he, and bring your work to me when you have done, and I will look it over, and mend the spelling, that you may not make gentlefolk laugh, which I Should be Sorry for; but it Shall be all your own talk, and If I put in any thing of mine, I will Set my two letters to it, which will be making a proper difference between us.
So here it is for you, Mr. Printer. 1 am Sorry if is S0 long, but I could not make it Shorter. I could not stop till 1 had had my whole Story out, So no more at present from Your humble Servant to command, Sluszington-green, Muckfreld, SAM, SLOD,
Sam Slod's Agricultural Queries.
QurPRY 1. Does cold and wet Sometimes cause and Sometimes cure mildew?
Q. 2. If 50, how are we to know which will be which?
Q- 3- Whatever becomes af the /unzus, may not wet and cold perish the vermin that breed in the cos)[Straw] and 527y[destroy] the grain?
Q. 4- Does it not stand to reason, that the clear bright Straw of this year must make a poor beast thrive more than the black rotten Straw of last year; just as Sound mutton or pork is wholesomer man's meat than what is rotten or measled?
Q. 5. IS it common for Norfolk farmers to uze wheat Straw, good'or bad, for any thing but litter and Stacking?
Q. 6. Is it therefore of any use to ask them, whether the good, or bad is best to eat?
Q-. 7. If the pores exist only on the glumes and leaves, and if the Fungus that grows in the pores Spoils the colour, how comes it to Spoil the colour of the 5traw?
Q. 8- Ifa very few plants of wheat affected are Sufficient to Spread the malady over the whole parish; after all the trouble ang expence of pulling up, must it not be 5upposed that the very few would un- avoidably be left, which would do as much mischiet as if they were all let alone?
Q. 9. Would the women, the boys, and the mautkers[gis] why 9? TI La 4