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February 1788, 1 took fix grains, foaked them In 

 water twenty-four hours, put them in earth in pots, 

 and then in a hot-houfe. In about twenty days they 

 began to appear, and four out of Cix grew to about 

 three feet highj two produced the ear complcatly 

 formed, a cone of which I fend. The pots were 

 taken out of the houfe the latter end of June, and the 

 ears gathered the beginning of Odober. Six other 

 grains were planted in the garden without foaking, 

 but did not produce even figns of vegetating. 



From this experiment is afcertained a fadl that 

 feed kept dry hath vegetated at the diftance of 

 thirty-four years from the time of its being ga- 

 thered. I am. Gentlemen, &:c. 



Clapbam, Dec. ay, 1789. SAMUEL SMITK, 



Article XLV. 



On rearing Calves without Milk. 



(To the Secretary.] 

 Sir, Tytherton, Dec. 3, 1789. 



THE following is as near a calculation of the 

 cxpences of rearing my calves without milk 

 as I can at prefent affert. In the year 1787 I 

 weaned feventecn calves, in 1788 twenty-three, and 

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