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Article XXI. 

 Remarks on Smutty Wheat * 



[By the Same.] 



Gentlemen, 



TT has been an eftabliHied opinion with moft 

 ■*' farmers, that fmutty wheat, or that in which 

 the black or fmutty balls are frequent, if fown, will 

 afluredly be produdtive of a foul crop. And it is 

 queftionable with many, if any cleanfing with water, 

 or fteep in any lixivium, will thoroughly purge its 

 foul quality, fo that no pollution be conveyed to 

 the future produce. 



I therefore beg leave to recite an experiment 

 which hath had a notable effed in obviating, as 

 far as it has been carried, the fettled prepoflefllon 

 againft fowing any wheat apparently cleanfed of 

 this contaminated quality. And what I hold of a 

 fupcrior ufe, a drain of wheat has been procured, 

 (by what operation of nature I do not profefs to 

 have difcovered) which hath obtained the reputa- 

 ration of one of the beft varieties known in the dif- 

 trid: in which it is grown. 



A neighbour of mine at Baburgh, a ipeculative 

 and pradtical farmer^ walked into a fmall piece of 



wheat 



