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to the feed-wheat, this active ftirring, or brufhing, 
may cleanfe it from every particle of this infeéting 
matter; that even black wheat may be thus purified, 
fo as to be productive of pure grain. Neverthelefs, 
wheat not obvioufly foul had better be preferred;* 
yet one of the moft judicious farmers in this neigh. 
bourhood deems he fhould run no rifk in taking 
the moft fmutty wheat, when fubjeéted to this pro- 
cefs; confirmed in his opinion from having obferved 
the univerfal clearnefs from fmut on every acre of 
wheat in this parifh, under divers occupiers, where 
the elementary fluid has been ufed; in which per- 
fuafion he is more fully eftablifhed, from knowing 
that one lictle farmer within this parifh, who laf 
feed-time was not acquainted with this fimple pro- 
cefs, had his feed-wheat for two acres cured in the 
old provincial mode. Some of his neighbours have 
faid, that he had more than a twentieth part brand, 
(fmut) and he has acknowledged to me, he cannot 
make fale of it unlefs the fheaves are feverally picked | 
previous to threfhing. 
I thought it neceflary to adduce this circumftance, 
as it fhews that the difeafe in queftion is neither in 
©-* It is more than poffible, that winds may waft from infected 
acres this powder, and thereby infect a wheat-field perfectly clean; 
and it is pofhble, that this bane may be conveyed from barley and 
from ‘oats; which ftrengthens the neceflity of wafhing all feed, 
though apparently pure. . The imut of barley is more frequently 
difperfed than that of wheat; its footy ears are frequently obvious 
to the Superficial obferyer. 
earth, 
