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on the time the wheat remains in the steeps, Nos. 

 10, 12, and 13, were 12 hours in it at the shortest; 

 and lime-water not effective in 12 hours, but se- 

 cure in 24, confirms tins doctrine. Old wheat is 

 clearly much less exposed to the malady than new; 

 and I have since heard of many fanners trusting 

 with entire confidence to old wheat, and not wet- 

 ting it at all : but, of course, they would not sow 

 a sample which they knew had been smutty. 



WHEAT AFTER FALLOW. 

 If there is one practice in husbandry proved by 

 modern improvements to be worse than another, 

 it is that of sowing wheat on fallows : all I shall 

 therefore observe under this head is, to note that in 

 some counties, the fallows are ploughed just before 

 harvest on to two-bout ridges, ready to plough and 

 sow under furrow in the spraining method; a seeds- 

 man to every plough, which reverses the ridges. In 

 others they lay their lands into ten or twelve fur- 

 row stitches or lands, and sow some under furrow, 

 some under the harrow. Ridges vary exceedingly, 

 according to their wetness; and in Kent they have, 

 by means of the turn-wrest plough, no lands at all, 

 but a whole field one even surface. It would be 

 useless to expatiate on the circumstances of fallow- 

 wheat, which ought no where to be found. If 

 fallows be, or are thought necessary, let them be 

 sown with barley or oats, or with any thing but 

 wheat. 



WHEAT 



