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Article XXIII. 



Further Remarks on the Cauje of the Smut in Wheat -, 

 and on planting Potatoes. 



In a Letter to the Secretary. 



SIR> 



TN a former letter on this fubjed, I mentioned 

 -■• my having then more experiments on foot, with 

 a view to the further inveftigation of the caufe of 

 the fmut in wheat; I now do myfelf the honour of 

 requefting leave to fubmit the refult to the confide- 

 ration of your very refpedtable Society. 



It is true, that, although thofe experiments were 

 numerous, they have afforded no new difcovery ; I 

 mean nothing different from the refult of thofe I 

 formerly related; yet I think they may be of great 

 life, as they may ferve to corroborate and confirm 

 the opinion I maintained refpeding the caufe of an 

 evil fo extenfive and alarming. 



To give a circumftantial relation of each experi- 

 ment would be both tedious and unimportant ; fuf- 

 fice it then to fay, they were made with found corn 

 picked out of fmutty ears, fet at different times and 

 on different foils, prepared by fteeping in different 



• liquors; 



