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sowed, one half of it, the north side, was sowed with the washed' 

 wheat, into which lirae and ashes had been mixed as above mention- 

 ed. While the south half of the field was sowed with the same kind 

 of wheat without washing it, or treating it with lime, ashes, or any 

 thing else. 



The result was, that the straw and the whe?t on the north side of 

 the field grew up fresh, clean, and with a full and heavy berry, and 

 yielded at the rate of about twenty bushels an acre. The south half< 

 of the field almost failed of a crop, not yielding more than ten bush- 

 els to the acre. The growth of straw was sickly and mildewed ; the 

 kernels of the wheat were small, and most of them apparently dis- 

 eased, and many of the heads were blighted with smut. 



The wheat couli not be ground into palatable flour, without first 

 thoroughly washing it. The soil of this last field was warm ; the 

 slope descended to the south east. The land was in good tilth. 



I have the honor to be. 



Your obedient servant, 



ALANSON NASH. 

 J^eiC'Yorkf December 25, 1847, 



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