470 SEPTEMBER. 



2. Velvet wheat of this year, and very smutty, 



swam in brine, and limed. 



3. Ditto ditto, 01 this year, steeped '24 hours in 



a steep of lye, arsenic, &c.* 



4. Ditto ditto, 14 hours in the same. 



5. Ditto ditto, swam in the same steep, and 



limed and sown directly. 



6. Ditto ditto, washed repeatedly in common 



water till clean, then swam in 

 the steep, dried with lime, and 

 sown directly. 



7. Ditto ditto, merely washed well in common 



water. 



8. Ditto ditto, dry from the barn ; nothing 



done to it. 



Q. t Ditto ditto, steeped in lime-water, made with 

 hot water in the manner pre- 

 scribed by Mons. Tessier-f-, and 

 dried with lime ; then in the 

 arsenic steep, and again dried 

 with lime. 



1O. Ditto ditto, washed in the same lime-water, 

 and then dried with lime ; as by 

 Mons. Tessier. 



* Made half a hogshead of strong lixivium of wood-ashes, put 

 it in a cast-iron boiler, with 7lb. of commdn salt, and lib. of 

 Arsenic j boiled it, and kept it in the boiler for use when cold. 

 This is Mr. Andrews's steep, except the salt, which he does not 

 use. See vol. vi. p. 174. 



f ee Annals, vol. vi. p. 208. 



11. Velvet 



