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SOWING WHEAT. 



the ancients, and has been of the moderns, to 

 steep the seed in liquors of a briny kind, before 

 sowing ; some, however, think that water alone 



BUCK WHEAT. 



is just as good ; the benefit being rather, by the 

 means of a fluid, to separate faulty seeds, which 

 swim at the top, and are easily skimmed off, 



