AGRICULTURE. 13 



90 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, or new-miik 

 warm. Put the wheat into a tub, and pour on ii a 

 quantity of the Uquor sufficient to cover it completely, 

 and throw a blanket over it to preserve the heat. Stir 

 it every ten minutes, and take off the scum. V/hen it 

 has remained in this manner for an hour, drain the li- 

 quor from the wheat through a sieve, or let the tub be 

 furnished with a drain bottom like a brewing vat. Let 

 the liquor which was drawn off, stand a few minutes 

 to subside, and then pour it off the sediment. Repeat 

 the operation till the whole quantity is steeped, only 

 observe to add, each time, as much hot ley as was ob- 

 served by the former steeping. Dry the vrheat Vv^ith 

 quick lime, and sovv as soon as convenient. It will 

 keep ten days after steeping; but should be spread thin 

 on a dry floor. 



If a tub with a drain bottom is used, such as a hogs- 

 head, with a spigot to draw off the ley, 4 ounces of 

 soap, and 1 gallon of water scalding hot, will preserve a 

 stock of warm ley sufficient for any cpantity of wheat. 

 The operation should be performed in a clean place, at 

 a distance from barns and granaries, the roofs of which 

 may be observed hanging full of smut. The refuse of 

 smutted wheat should be buried deep in the earth, and 

 not thrown to the dunghill, from which it would be con- 

 veyed to the field. 



TO PRODUCE EARLY POTATOES IN GREAT QUANTITY. 



Early potatoes may be produced in great quantity by 

 resetting the plants, after taking off the ripe and large 

 ones. A gentleman at Dumfries, has re-planted them 

 six different times in one season, without any additional 

 manure, and instead of falling off in quantity, he gets 

 a larger crop of ripe ones at every raising, than the 

 former ones. His plants have still on them three dis- 

 tinct crops, and he supposes they may still continue to 

 vegetate and germinate until they are stopped by tlie 

 frost. By this means he has a new crop every eight 

 days. 



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