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its green state, Was observed to contain an infinitely greater number of brauny ears, than those of tbe like Seed which bad been prepared. I am happy to find this observation agrees with the remarks of your very intelligent correspondent, er ÄGRICOLA NoORTHUMBRIENSIS," in your Nnmber 76. Be- fore 1 drop this Subject.! must observe that another advantag2, though a very Secondary one, results from the use of chamber- Jye, with those who use the drill; i. e. tbe wheat becomes suficiently dry very 8001 after being prepared; whereas, when Salt is used, it must remain at least twenty-four hours before iE can be drilled, and is then very apt to Stick in the cups, which it will always do whenever the weather becomes moist, however dry the Seed might previously have been, the 5alt naturally imbibing moisture from the atmosphbere.

It zeems to be a clearly ascertained fact, that over-year wheat never produces bran, though put into the ground un- prepared; Can any of your correspondents account for this? Does it arise from the Seed oithe bran,ifitbe a vegetable losing its vegetative power, by being kept in the Stack, or on the granary, through the year? or during that time the inseot escaping from the egg, if it be au animal production?

AN. gives an account of his having occasionally used refuze grain for Seed, but very properly, in my opinion, does not recommend the practice.

[ once tried this experiment on a very Small scale, i. e. I Selected twenty very plump kerwels, and planted them in a garden pot, also twenty very Small and shrivelled, which I planted in another pot; the first twenty all vegetated, and the blade was Strong and healthy; of the other twenty, not more than fifteen cawe up, and the blade very weak and Slender. It is impossible to ascertain how far this want of nutriment in the infant state of the plaut, may effect its future growth, but as the embryo car, aecording to the observation of that celebrated vaturalist, the late Dr. Darwin, is formed very early inthe plant, we cannot, 1 think, expect 50 greata produce frowlean ordinary Seed, as rom that winich 1s|

riectand plump. Some of your friends Seem veiy unwiiling to credit the accounts of the quantity ot land ploughed here jn 4 day, with a man and two horzes, bai you inay be asgured that tbey are nothing more ihan what 1s generallydone throughout we COURDty, of which the common Practice 15 to 30 two Journeys a day, 1. 0. work till noon, then remmn howe, to bait themselves and horses, and«go 10 work again in th68 AMernoon Shortesl days, Say from tbe widdle ot November to the middle of February, 1 deviate trom this PLACHTE, By having my mea g0 to work as S0u1 as they Can