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powder adheres to the feed, the crop is generally 

 free from fmut ; or if the fmutty powder is 

 wafhed off the feed by brifldy {lining it with 

 a ftick in fair water only, and all the fmutty 

 powder fkimmed off the top of the water, 

 this will prevent the fmut, as has been found 

 by experience, and the fmutty powder is by the 

 fame mean*; Itill more eafilv feparated from the 

 corn if it is biifkly ftirred among brine and 

 well ikimn^ed ; in either way, there is no 

 Decertify to let the feed lie foaking any time, 

 but may be taken out of the liquor and dried, 

 and fown immediately after it is dry, which 

 is much better than {owing it wet, and if the 

 feed is from a good change and free from 

 fmut, it may be fown without being fteeped 

 at all and while the land is dry* it then is not 

 forced, but vegetates gradually and according 

 to the order of nature. 



If the crop fhould happen to be fmutty by- 

 very unkind feafons or otherwife, it is a damage 

 to the crop, and leffens its value at market, 

 and for this the farmer has no remedy when 

 fown broad-caft ; but when the feed is 

 drilled, the crop may be intirely cleared of 

 the fmutted corn before it is reaped. For 

 horfe-hoed wheat, having large earSj full of 

 heavy grain, bends and turns downwards be- 

 fore harveft ; but the fmutty or blighted ears, 

 being light, ftand upnght, and are eaftly dif- 

 tinguilhed, and may then be ail clipped off by a 

 woman, and carried away in a bag at a trifling 



expence J 



