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hand in fowing, and more diftinguiihable by 

 the eye when call upon the ground. 



A bufhel of wheat has been obferved to 

 take up about a gallon of liquor. The price ; 

 of arfcnic is about fixpence a potfnd ; which, 

 on this calculation, will cure four quarters of 

 feed. If no more than three quarters be pre- 

 pared with it, the coft will be only a farthing 

 a bufhel ; but to this muft be added the la- 

 bour of pounding and boiling. Neverthe- 

 lefs it is by much the cheapeft, and perhaps 

 upon the whole the beft, preparation we are 

 at prefent acquainted with. 



When, however, I fay the left preparation \ 

 I mean only to fpeak the language of protef- 

 fional men, not only in this, but in every 

 other Diftritt. My own practice has not 

 furnimed me with a fufficient proof that any 

 preparation is neceflary. I therefore fufpend 

 my judgment at prefent, upon this difputablc 

 but interefling fubjecl: of hufbandry. Nevcr- 

 thelefs, I wim to have it underftcod that I 

 am not at prefent an enemy to preparations. 



IV. THE MILDEW OF WHEAT. It is a re- 

 ceived idea in this Diltrict, that MESLIN, 

 provincially, " masfhelfon," * (a mixture of 



wheat 



