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car, and one only, out of 24, fhould be found, is 

 indeed veiy ftrangcj but perhaps not more fo than 

 that, in the animal creation, the offspring of a dif- 

 tempered fire may in general be affeded by the 

 vitiated (lamina of the fire, yet fome one or more 

 may efcape the hereditary taint, and appear per- 

 fectly found. 



From thefe, and the experiments of the forrher 

 paper, the following corollaries are clearly deducible: 



\Jl. That found grains, from very fmutty ears, 

 produce as clean and as found crops as feed from 

 corn that is perfeClly free from fmut. 



2dly. That feed from the foundefl: and cleanefl 

 crops doth frequently, in wet, cold, unfavourable 

 feafons, produce fmutty crops, in fpite of deeping, 

 brining, liming, change of feed, and every device 

 and invention which the wit of man hath ever 

 pradtifed. 



^dly. That in fine, dry, warm fummers, it fre- 

 quently happens there is little or no fmut at all, 

 and that in many inftances, where fmutty feed has 

 been fown, the produce has been clean and perfe<ftly 



free from the fmut. 



Atthly. 'That 



