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is lost; there are none which seem, as in our
country, to be cast down purposely to feed the birds.
The stalks, arranged in parallel lines, and separated
from each other, as well as the roots which support
them, easily admit the impressions of the air and of
the sun ; and the ears, being neither confined nor
stifled, are not subject to the rickets ; the grains
with which they are filled soon acquire size and
nourishment, and no miscarriage or sickliness is
found amongst them. Neither are their fields in-
fected by a crowd of plants, which, under the genc-
rical name of weeds, are in the greater part of our
lands a real bane to our harvests. The wheat is
sown pure as it is gathered, nor is it associated with
different sorts of grain in the same field, which al-
though of a similar species, yet not ripening at the
same period, cannot but produce a mixture as un-
productive to the husbandman as useless to the
consumer.
Fields enriched with such harvests as these, can-
not fail to attract ffranivorous birds. Flights of
pigeons, pairs of turtle-doves, betake themselves
thither ; and sparrows, which may be called the
corn-bird, as they are ever found where that kind
of grain is common, assemble there about the farm-
house?. The tufted lark, fixed to this fruitful land,
never forsakes it; it seems, however," that the ex-
cessive heat annoys him. You may see these birds,
is lost; there are none which seem, as in our
country, to be cast down purposely to feed the birds.
The stalks, arranged in parallel lines, and separated
from each other, as well as the roots which support
them, easily admit the impressions of the air and of
the sun ; and the ears, being neither confined nor
stifled, are not subject to the rickets ; the grains
with which they are filled soon acquire size and
nourishment, and no miscarriage or sickliness is
found amongst them. Neither are their fields in-
fected by a crowd of plants, which, under the genc-
rical name of weeds, are in the greater part of our
lands a real bane to our harvests. The wheat is
sown pure as it is gathered, nor is it associated with
different sorts of grain in the same field, which al-
though of a similar species, yet not ripening at the
same period, cannot but produce a mixture as un-
productive to the husbandman as useless to the
consumer.
Fields enriched with such harvests as these, can-
not fail to attract ffranivorous birds. Flights of
pigeons, pairs of turtle-doves, betake themselves
thither ; and sparrows, which may be called the
corn-bird, as they are ever found where that kind
of grain is common, assemble there about the farm-
house?. The tufted lark, fixed to this fruitful land,
never forsakes it; it seems, however," that the ex-
cessive heat annoys him. You may see these birds,