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This, furely, feems to prove, as far as a fingle in- 

 ftance can do it, that by taking away tlie fuper- 

 abundant water, I have entirely prevented the dif- 

 order. Whether the fan^e arofc from plants pecu- 

 liar to a wet foil — whether from the eggs of infeds 

 lodged on fuch plants — ^whether from the nature 

 and quality of all or any plants growing in fuch 

 fituations— or whether, as fome have thought, from 

 the mere adl of lodging on fuch land, — are quef- 

 tions of more curiofity than ufe. The mere know-i^ 

 ledge of the means of preventing fo dreadful an 

 evil being fufficient to anfwer every wifh and pur- 

 pofe of the farmer. 



Mr. Billingsley's opinion, confirmed by his 

 experience, of the impropriety of burn-baiting, 

 coincides entirely with the idea I had ever con- 

 ceived of that pra6lice. It can never be good, 

 but where the foil is very deep, and full of l^rge 

 coarfc roots and other vegetable fubftances. The 

 earth itfelf, when burnt, I have foun4 ^o be a merp 

 ^aput tnortuum. I am. 



Your obliged friend. 



J. B.. 



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