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ftruck with the blight, which, though it come too 

 hte to prevent the perfedtion of the vivifying prin- 

 ciple, and thereby render it unfit for feed, yet it is 

 little more than two rinds, it being in a manner 

 ftarved, the meally fubftance of which the fiour 

 confifts being alnwft entirely wanting. 



From all this it very clearly appears, that all the 

 boaflcd deeps prepared for preventing the fmut are 

 chimerical, and void of all reafonable foundation 

 whatever. In warm dry healthy fummers the fmut 

 is feldom if ever found, though the land be fown 

 with feed that is fmutty, and without any prepara- 

 tion at all. I would however recommend wafhincr 

 the feed in fair water a day or two before fowing. 

 By this means the light imperfe6b corns, chafF, and 

 feed of weeds, if any, are feparated from the feed 

 corn, fwim at top, are eafily fkimmed off, and the 



remainder rendered- much more clean and perfe6b. 



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The writer has now feveral experiments, in pro- 

 fecutiqn, by which the above obfervations may pro- 

 bably be fatisfaftorily confirmed, which he hopes to 

 have the honour of communicating in due time. 

 He does not prefume to claim the promifcd pre- 

 mium, being fenfible he has not performed the 

 literal conditions, which he apprehends no power is 

 by any means equal to but that only which ** rides 



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