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feed. Therefore there was little doubt of his 

 having a fucceeding crop. So it might be 

 truly faid, the farmer had got his work kt. 



No III. 



O/ibe Smut in jyheat, 



FROM the experiments detailed in Se6lion 

 IX. of the foregoing Work, it plainly appears 

 that fmut arifes from a defed in the feed. The 

 following is an additional proof. In the year 

 1793, 1 fowed on a piece of land feed which I 

 had procured from Burill in Cambridgefhirej 

 and the produce proved fmutty. It having 

 coft a very high price, I fowed the produce the 

 year following. I chamberlied one parr, and 

 prepared another with arfenic-water ; but the 

 day we finillifd, I ordered to fow one land with- 

 out the preparation. The part of the field 

 fown with wheat prepared was entirely free 

 from fmut, and the other part very much af- 



fedcd indeed k 



No IV. 



