was to be found. I had not proceeded far, how- 

 ever, before I obfervcd, that both fmutty and 

 found cars were frequently prciduced and nourifhcd 

 by the fame root, and confequentiy were both 

 produced from one and the fame individual feed. 

 This circumftance alone goes very far towards 

 proving, that the caufe of the fmut does not exift 

 originally in die feed ; for if \t%ftamma were vitiated 

 or corrupted, it is not poflible to conceive that it 

 fhould produce plants found, healthy, and vigorous, 

 for eight or nine months, and then fome ears full 

 of corn perfc(5lly found and good, and others no- 

 thing but fmut balls. 



Not fully fatisfied with this, I purfued my in- 

 tention, and fpent much time in examining the 

 fmutty ears j I foon difcovered it was no very un- 

 common thing for the fame ear to contain both 

 found and fmutty corn. 



In foiTie ears the tops were moftly fmutty, and 



the bottoms found i in others the tops were found 



and the bottoms fmutty ; but more generally, one 



fide of the ear was all fmut, and the other moftly 



found. One of the laft ears I examined contained 



forty fmut-balls, twenty-one corns that were per- 



fcdlly found and good, and five corns that had one 



end fmutty and the other found. 



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