472 SEPTEMBER. 



The following is the copy of my bailiff's account, 

 taken afterwards : 



No. 1. / smutty cars, 



2. 105 do. do. 



3. 5 do. do. 



4. 6 do. do. 

 3. 35 do. do. 

 6. 32 do. do. 



7.4 of the whole smutty, 

 8. ^ smutty, 

 Q. 20 smutty ears, 

 JO. 75 do. do. 

 1 ] . 5 do. do. 

 12. 10 do. do. 



As a great deal of the old seed never came up, the 

 proportion of seven smutty ears in the remainder 

 is considerable, and should shew that sowing old 

 seed is not a security when the wheat is so very bad. 

 The first, in point of freedom from the dis- 

 temper, are those steeped in arsenic 24 hours, and 

 M. Brongniart's powder : these are equal, with this 

 superiority, that 1 2 hours with the latter are equal 

 to 25 with the former. 



The nest in freedom, and nearly equal, is that 

 which was 14 hours in the arsenic- steep : and the 

 next to that, No. 12, which was only four hours 

 in the same steep. The superiority of arsenic to 

 all the rest is decided ; but it is remarkable, that 

 the time of steeping seems of consequence. Twenty- 

 four hours lessens, by half the quantity of smut, 

 pp comparison with four hours, In Mr. Andrews's 



method, 



