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the better able to dbferve the difference, and make remarks for 

 your future advantage. 



You fay you have no underflandlng of woollen goods. You 

 will eafily oet enough to enable you to deal a little in them in 

 the country retail way, that a country man may find at your 

 houfe each of the things he moft commonly wants for his 

 family, or other ufes, and fo provide himfelf at once, in phce 

 of going to different towns*, otherwife, he will go for iron (for 

 example) where he can get cloth and other things for a coat — 

 But you are better judj^e of this than I. Never think your letters 

 ore tirefome to me ; for I am alivaxs wilUfig to give the hefl advice I 

 can^ and mightily pleafed to hear of you having fuccefs in any improve" 

 incut you undertake. So write freely. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER*S MAGAZINE. 



On the Advantage of ufing Hot Lime when Seed Wheat is Steeped* 



Sir, 



A CORRESPONDENT in No. XVII. of your Magazine, who 

 figns him.felf A. iS., has favoured the public with feme remarks 

 on a communication made by the late Sir John Call to the Board 

 of Agriculture, on the fmut or black upon wheat, wherein he 

 <ioes not difplay much acquaintance with the rubje6l. He af- 

 fumes, as an acknowledged fadi, what 1 am by no means difpof- 

 ed to confider in that light, viz. that deeping feed is attended 

 with dangerous confequences, and ufes fome arguments which 

 ought not to pafs unnoticed ; becaufe a general adoption of his 

 fentiments would inevitably lead to the moll direful conle- 

 quences. As you defire the attention of your correfpondents 

 to the fubjedl: which A. S. attempted to inveltigate, I cannot 

 forbear from troubling you with the following thougiits, which 

 may be ufed in any manner you pleafe. 



Whether the fmutty dufl which appears upon wheat is the 

 minute feed of a plant or an animalcula, I Oiall not Hop to ex- 

 amine, though I am of opinion with your corref^ondcnt that it 

 is the latter. But, no matter what it is'; all that is neceffary is 

 a remedy for the difeafe. AgriculturilU have for many years, 

 perhaps for many centuries, ufed tleeps and pickles as a preven- 

 tative •, and it is confi'dent with the knowlet'ge of every one of 

 your readirs, who is a pracftical farmer, that fuch, vvlien pro- 

 perly adminiflered, are an elTs:clual remedy againll this baneful 

 and difgractful diforder. 



What I obje£^ to in A. S-'s letter is the following pafTage : 



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