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From Mr. JENNINGS to Mr. GORDON, 
DEAR SIR, arlington, Jan. 13, 1798. 
{ AM forry the want of being explicit in the 
account of my experiments, fhould occafion you 
fo much trouble; I believe, however, that a fecond 
reading of my account will fhew that the time ne- 
ceflary for the wheat to remain in the fteep is 20 
hoprs. In anfwer to the other query, pleafe to 
inform your friends, that I go by mea/ure; and that 
the quantity which I have found fucceed, is as one 
gallon of oil of vitriol to thirty gallons of water. 
Yhe wheat muft not be put into the fteep till the 
heat is nearly gone off. 
Tt may be afked, why I fix upon 20 hours as a 
proper time for the wheat to remain inthe tub; my 
reafon is this: in mine, as in moft large farms, there 
is an odd man employed about home even in feed 
time; as foon as he has had his breakfaft, he puts as 
much wheat as will be wanted for the next day, into 
the bafket, and lets it down into the tub, where the 
vitriol and water is; and the next morning, about 
five o’clock, the bafket is pulled up over the tub to 
drain, that none of the vitriolated water may be 
loft, and the feed put into the facks juft before we 
fet off; and thus the bufinefs of fteeping the feed 
goes 
