142 Of Smut tin ess. Chap. X* 



Years paft, he never had a Smutty Ear in any of his 

 Crops (and he never brines nor limes it), tho' all 

 other Wheat have been often fmutty throughout his 

 Neighbourhood every wet Year, tho' brined and 

 limed. He fays, the Perfon who furnifhes him with 

 this Seed, is very curious in changing his Seed alfo 

 every Year. 



This gives a Sufpicion, that our drowned Wheat 

 at Brijlcl might pofTibiy be Foreign; and then might 

 not have been fmutty the next Year, tho 5 it had not 

 been foaked in the Sea- water. 



The Wheat fown by the Two Farmers aforemen- 

 tioned might be from a good Change of Land, but 

 the Seed not changed the precedent Year ; and then 

 it might be no more infecTed, than what the Brine 

 and Lime did cure. 



To know what Changes are bed to prevent Smut- 

 tinefs of Wheat, we mull confult the moft Expe- 

 rienced; and they tell us, that the fbrong Clay Land 

 is bed to be fent to for Seed-wheat, whatever Sort of 

 Land it be to be fowed upon; a White-clay is a good 

 Change for a Red-clay, and a Red for a White. 

 That from any ftrong Land is better than from a 

 light Land ; and the old Rhyme is, that Sand is a 

 Change for no Land. But from whatever Land the 

 Seed be taken, if it was not changed the preceding 

 Year, it may poflibly be infected ; and then there 

 may be Danger, tho 5 we have it immediately from 

 never fo proper a Soil. 



The firongeu: Objection that has been yet made 

 againft cpnftant annual Crops of Wheat, is, that 

 thofe Grains of the precedent Crop which happen 

 to fried, and grow in the following Crop, will be 

 in Danger of Smuttinefs, for want of changing thofe 

 individual Seeds. 



All I can fay in Anfwer is, that during thefe Five 

 Years, which is all the time I have had thefe annual 

 Crops, this objected Inconvenience never has hap- 

 pened 



