have fiiid before, it is produced by generation, or is 

 a difeafe, it is immaterial, if we know a remedy that 

 will ftop its progrefs, either by curing the latterj 

 or rendering impotent the former. Afolu tion of fub^- 

 limate, arfcnick, or other cauftick alkali, my expe- 

 rience tells me, will anfwer bur expedlations; that of 

 arfenick is a fafe, clean, and cheap remedy ; a firft 

 confideration to a pradlical farmer! But we arc 

 told in your 5th vol. p. 245, " that it is fo dange- 

 ** rous and abfurd, that men of common fenfe zrt 

 '^ afraid and alhamed of the pradlice." Are then 

 mercury, antimony, opium, and bark, the bafis of 

 pf the Materia Medica, to give place to powder of 

 poft, becaufe in injudicious hands they have pro- 

 duced the word corifcquences ? and their prefcribers 

 be accufed of wanting common fenfe ? Surely not. 

 Herculean difeafes require Herculean remedies ; 

 the folution of arfenick has not been ufed only on 

 an acre or two of land by way of experiment, but on 

 hundreds of acres, to the entire fatisfaftion of my- 

 felf and other farmers that have ufed it; and they 

 may reft affured (provided the corn be Town within 

 24 hours after immerfion) that no danger will arifc 

 to the feed, although it may have been many hours 

 in the water, and no lime ufed i but as the weather 

 at that feafon is uncertain, it is beft to wet it as you 

 have occafionj fifteen minutes is fufficient for its be- 

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