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the common practice juft mentioned of dreffing the feed, as anfwer- 
ing no: good end, and deftruétiye of the grain (/).. Some take the 
duft. for the eggs of infects, and others adopt, what to me appears | 
the moft probable opinion, that this evil is occafioned by a minute 
vegetable of the order of Fungi. 
Mr. Bryant founds his hypothefis upon few experiments, and thofe 
not very precifely ftated (4): the one was favourable rather than - 
otherwife to the practice which he is endeavouring to fet afide (7). 
This was made upon a fmallícalein his garden, From his larger 
experiment no fair confequences in fupport of either fide of the 
queftion can be drawn; for it was made in two feparate fields, the 
corn being fown unprepared in one, and dreffed as ufual in the 
other (m). ‘Whether thal fields) were near to tipi other, or far 
afunder, or of a imilar or liffere il, | iform us. 
refult of. this aent « was ae in vaut ET much he con- 
feffes) (n) of the undreffed feed. Now, as fome years are much : 
more pages to he Xu of Brand, it is probable, than 
d it is not to be expected d that. mapin. fhould fo 
ea pio ii would | hoher talc ild a fyfte zg aian experi E 
much more numerous and decifive than thofe related by Mr. Bry- 
ant, which.were made in a fingle year. Again, as fome foils may 
be more given to the production of this difeafe, or whatever we are 
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roy In juftice t to this gentleman, I muft acknowledge, that, with refpet to this circum- 
ion feems founded. upon fa& ; for I am informed by intelligent farmers, — 
ain does perifh, as they a^ by the ufe of lime. But is the evil 
: M. greater than. the evil prevented? | 7 IX 
(k) Bryant, p.24, 25. - (1) Ide P. 32,33. — (m) Td. P- 24, 25. m " Ds 33 
` (0) A tenant of mine, in the year 1797 I think, told me that his wheat that | year was very 
much injured by the Brand, although he prepared it in the fame: manner as he had done 
for ten "e before, and always till then with fuccefs. — 
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