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liquors j fome in fimple water, and fome without 

 any preparation at all. The refult was, that one 

 fmutty ear was not to be found in any one of the 

 experiments. 



It is true indeed the wheat of laft year was in 

 general pretty free from fmutj but if the caufe of 

 the evil originate in the feed, and not in the feafon, 

 the produce of the above experiments would have 

 been jufl as liable to the fmut, being taken from 

 fmutty cars, as in any other feafon whatever. 



Some of the feed of thofe experiments was deeped 

 in a folution of fait, fome in a lixivium of wood 

 afhes, fome in a folution of fugar, fome in ftrong 

 ale, fome in clear water, fome were fet dry as they 

 came from the ear; but at harveft there- was no 

 perceptible difference, either as to ftrength of plants, 

 or foundnefs and plumpnefs of grain. I could not 

 perceive that any advantage had been gained by 

 any of theinfufions made ufe of, excepting that the 

 corn from the unwaihed feed abounded much more 

 with weeds, than that from the feed which had been 

 ftceped and wafhed; which was rather contrary to 

 what 1 had hoped and expeded, from a former ex- 

 periment of fteeping, which feemed to promife aa 

 increafe of fertility and produce. 



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