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alfo, Hf the ftem ofa burnt ear be cut juft above 
the root, it will be found confiderably harder than 
that of a found one; probably the juices of the one 
may be ftopt, by the infect having injured the tubes, 
and continuing to afcend in the other, may occa- 
fion the difference. 
Impreffed with the idea, three years fince, that 
infects are the caufe of burnts, I tried the follow- 
ing experiments in the middle of a twenty-acre 
clofe; the refidue of the faid clofe was fowed with 
the fame kind of wheat, and treated in the fame 
mode, as No. I. and II. and was equally as clean, 
and my crops have been fo ever fince: my mode . 
of medicating my wheat is No. II. 
No. I. Sowed five drills (with Mr. Cooke’s ma- 
chine) with wheat treated agreeable to Mr. Middle- 
ton’s recipe. 
No. Il. Sowed five drills, with wheat wetted with 
old urine, three quarts toa bufhel, and turned about 
with a fhovel till all the urine was imbibed, then 
plenty of quick-lime fifted over it, and turned over 
and over with a fhovel, and left in a heap till next 
morning. 
No. III. Sowed five drills with wheat fteeped two 
hours in a {trong lye, made of wood-afhes and 
lime, and laid on the barn-floor to dry. 
No. 1V. Sowed five drills with the fame kind of 
wheat, dry. 
RESULT. 
