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F 7280.) 
vent bunts; but furely the fame reafon will hold 
good with refpeé to good feed as bad. If the de- 
fective feed decay when old, furely the good cannot 
receive any improvement; the knowledge a perfon 
receives from Tull’s hufbandry can never be of 
any ufe to the experimental farmer; the perufal may 
amufe the idle and the futile, but can never con- 
tribute any thing towards publick utility. 
' J. B---h’s Philofophical Reafons, &c. feem to 
have been fabricated by Mr. Fletcher, on purpofe 
to anfwer a query at a certain time; they caft very 
little light on the fubject; for what do farmers in 
general know of nitrous, /ulphureous, and heterogeneous 
particles? It is my opinion (and not my opinion 
only, but what I have acquired from repeated ex- 
periments) that the caufe in general of bunts in 
wheat, proceeds from a.neglected cultivation of 
Jand, and not being careful to procure the pureft 
kind of feeds, and not previoufly preparing it with 
brine, lime, &c. with which almoft every farmer 
is acquainted. 
I will beg leave to recommend to farmers in ge- 
neral, to fheep-fold as much of their land as poffi- 
ble that is intended for wheat, as that is more 
beneficial than any other kind of manure;—keep 
the land clean from weeds, and I truft, by a per- 
feverance in this practice, there will be but little 
caufe of complaint about bunts in future, 
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