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LETTER’ V. 
In anfwer to Farmer Slouch, refpecting the 
occafion of dunty wheat, I beg you will infert the 
following, a due obfervance of which, I am per- 
fuaded from my own fludy, will prevent it:—Let 
the farmer fet his labourers to draw from the 
fheaves, before they are threfhed, all the primeft 
and beft of the ears of one colour, either red or 
yellow Lammas (I believe the red Lammas is 
the beft). Sow an acre or two of this wheat for 
his own feed the next year, and do this every third 
or fourth year; by this rule he will have all his 
wheat of one colour, and without doubt free from 
the difeafe of fmut, for it is the underling ears, 
and the poornefs of the land, that caufe wheat to 
degenerate and turn to fmut. 
If the method of picking all forts of corn for 
feed were in general ufe, it would prove the greateft 
ornament to the field, and improvement in the 
farming bufinefs, ever yet found out. 
AN IMPROVER OF NATURE. 
LETTER. VL. 
Nor feeing any fatisfactory anfwer in your pa- 
per, refpecting the caufe of Burnts induces me to 
fay that I believe the caufe is an infeét. 
Malpighi, 
