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Account of the means to prevent the must and mildew of 

 wheat, adopted with success in Flanders, by /. 

 Mease, M. D. 



Read September, 1816. 



Mr. Caleb Kirk of Brandywine, Delaware, lately 

 brought me a few ounces of smut taken off of a parcel 

 of wheat, by the operation of his mill used to prepare 

 pearl barky ; and informed me that twelve bushels of 

 grain yielded three bushels of smut ; and as this serious 

 disease of wheat almost always appears under certain cir- 

 cumstances attending growth, and the seed used, I am 

 happy in having it in my power to inform the American . 

 farmer of a safe, simple, and cheap remedy, and of course 

 accessible to all, which has been for a long time in use 

 in Flanders. 



I obtained the knowledge of this invaluable remedy 

 by reading a late pamphlet by that eminent and faithful 

 friend and patron of agriculture, the right honourable 

 Sir John Sinclair, which was recently presented to our 

 Society with several other valuable works, by a generous 

 friend to our Society living in Edinburgh. 



It appears that Sir John Sinclair left London in the 

 month of February, 1815, with the view of ascertaining 

 what he might have easily found out without leaving 

 home, viz. the relative prices of grain in Great Britain, 

 and in Flanders, the causes of any difference that might 

 exist, and the means by which any material variation 

 might in future be prevented; but the extensive military 



