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much of it was laid before the due frudification had 
taken place;. mine, folely, I conceive, from early hoe- 
ing, maintained its upright pofition, and thence ad- 
vanced to healthful maturity, whereby its grain was 
fpecifically weightier at all zimes,* than any wheat of 
the neighbourhood, and clear of extraneous feeds 
when drefled. 
I conceive, from the premifes ftated, it follows as 
an eafy deduftion, the cleaner the land the more 
nutriment it difpenfes to the fubjeé& of tillage; its 
uncrouded ftate, rendering it eafily acceffible to every 
means of nourifhment, expofes it to due ventilation, 
and confequent evaporation, which preferves the corn 
in health, and becomes the means of every poflible 
perfection. | 
It has been already advanced, that the cure of 
fmut in wheat. is effected by water alone, either by 
finking a veffel that contains the feed beneath the 
running ftream, or immerfion in {tanding water; un- 
der either circumftance, ftirring it brifkly, whereby 
the balls, if any, of this pernicious fubftance will 
float away, or may be fkimmed off; and if there be 
- not any of them, but fome of the powder adhering 
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* Tt may ftrike the apprehenfion of fome readers, that the dif- 
tinction of time refpecting weight is unneceflary; but it is a fact, 
that there are numérous pounds in a quarter difference betwixt a dry 
and humid, on operating difadvantageoufly to the buyer in .the 
Jatter. This wheat varied from its more general weight more than 
a pound per bufhel, yet always maintained its pre-eminence at the 
fame period over other wheat, en 
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