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III. PREPARING SEED-WHEAT. IntheRural 

 Economy of NORFOLK I have mentioned an 

 improvement in the ufe of fait and lime as 

 preventives againft fmut. Here a fingular 

 remedy is made ufe of for that purpofe - 9 fin- 

 gular I mean as to this Diflrict, in which 

 alone I have found ARSENIC ufed as a pre- 

 ventive of that troublcfome difeafe. 



Formerly, brine and lime were the ufual 

 preparation here, as they ftill are in almoft 

 every Diftrid of the Ifland. How long ar- 

 fenic has been in ufe here, or how the ufe of 

 it was introduced, I have not learnt with fuf- 

 fiqient accuracy. One perfon (whofe accu- 

 racy might be fafely relied on, were not his 

 evidence corroborated by my own occafional 

 pbfervation) has ufed it more than twenty 

 years, invariably, and with uniform fuccefs. 

 He cannot fay that during that time he has 

 not had a fmuity ear of wheat upon his 

 farm ; but he afiferts with confidence, that 

 fince he prepared feed-wheat with ar- 

 fenic-water, he has not experienced a fcn- 

 fible injury fr-om finut. The fame or a fimi- 

 iar flrength of evidence might probably be 

 pbtained from an hundred individuals in this 



neighbourhood. 



Its 



