5lS Rev. Air. KiRnY^'i ObfaViUi'jns upon certain Fungi 



th.o{t Jiretchcs (p) fown with drcfled wheat it was difficult to find any 

 branded cars, except upon the edges, where it is probable the un- 

 drelFcd had been occafionally thrown in fowing it by hand. The 

 ■other breadths were fb branded as to make it necefiary for him to 

 determine to carry the corn at feparate times to different places. 

 A wet feafon fetting in, the hurry of bufinefs made him negledl this 

 j-)recaution ; and being all houfed together, the whole crop, when 

 threflied out, was fpoiled fo much by the Brand duft as to render the 

 fample unfalcable. He computed his lofs at 50I." I (hall now 

 •copy an in (lance from Mr. Lathbury's memorandum-book, of mif- 

 =chicf incurred by a defetSl in the quality of the limeufed for drying 

 the feed : " Mr. Hewlett of Blighborough Lodge, always accuf- 

 tomed to drcfs his wheat with fait water and frefh flaked lime, was 

 induced, from the magnitude of his concern, to purchafe a quantity 

 of lime which from fome circumftances was offered to him at a much 

 lefs price than ufual. When he dreffed his wheat with it, it was air- 

 Jlaked, but did not appear otherwife altered by keeping; yet had it 

 fo far loft its ftrength, that his crop that year was injured by the 

 Pepper Brand to the amount of upwards of 300 1. in the opinion of 

 good and able judges." Thus far Mr. Lathbury's communications. 

 I lliall now proceed, as I propofed, in the next place to mention 

 fome inflanccs which fell within my own knowledge. Laft year an 

 intelligent farmer informed me, that through hafte he had neglected 

 to drefs part of his feed wheat, and that in confequence of it the 

 <;rop of the field where it was fown was greatly injured by the Brand, 

 Avhile the reft of his wheat was free from it. He alfo informed me< 

 ihat if old wheat was ufed for feed, it was not fubjeiSl to it. During 



(/)) I knew not the orthography of this word. It is ufually pronounced _/7if/i/'fj-. It 

 dS the name given to thbfe breadths, narrower or vider according to the nature of the 

 ioLl, Into which a fi.eld is divided previous to lowing. 



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