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If nitrous drops, &c. were the caufe, they would 
be more diffufive, nor would it be in the power of 
any noftrum to prevent it, which experience con- 
tradicts. | 
In anfwer to S——, and “ An Improver of Na- 
ture,” I muft beg leave to fay, that if the former 
cultivates a piece of land in the beft manner poffi- 
ble, and the latter picks fome wheat from the beft 
ears he can procure, and fows this picked wheat dry, 
on this highly cultivated foil, I have not a doubt but 
the produce will be bunty; ‘but if wetted with brine 
or urine, and well limed, the reverfe; in fhort, I 
look upon /ime to be the grand /pecific to remove 
the caufe of burnts. As brining and liming wheat 
before fown, is univerfally practifed, and I believe 
juftly acknowledged to remove the caufe of burnts, 
it naturally leads to an enquiry of what that caufe 
can be, and where lodged, that brine and lime, 
urine and lime, or water and lime, have a power of 
annihilating; and I muft confefs I cannot fee a more 
probable caufe, than that it is an egg, eggs, or feed, 
lodged on the corn by an infect, and if fo, the 
plump corn is as liable to contain them as the thin, 
and the well-tilled land to give them birth, nurture, 
and maturity, as the bad. I have had asclean and 
full a crop from faiting burnty wheat, as from the 
beft I ever fowed. 
The preceding are my ideas, refpecting the caufe 
of burnts. 
FARMER SLOUCH. 
