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and either vegetate or remain until the following spring. 
The fungus spreads also by off-sets. As remedies to this 
fearful disease, there have been tried 5 to 6 bushels of salt 
per acre, and quicklime fresh slaked, applied early in May. 
These are said to prevent the communication of the mildew 
in the soil to the growing plant. The testimonies in favour 
of salt are Sir J. Sinclair, Mr. Sickler, Mr. J. Robinson, 
Mr. Wood, and Dr. Paris. On the sea side wheat is little 
damaged, yet three miles inward it is much affected. The 
Rev. E. Cartwright applied with good effect, lib. of salt 
dissolved in a gallon of water, and sprinkled on the diseased 
wheat : two men got over four acres per day : it is to be 
applied on a cloudy day or in the evening. Mr. Legard can 
produce one clear example in which wheat was attacked 
when barley was the preceding crop, and where it was not 
attacked on the other half of the same field, and in the same 
year, when oats was the preceding corn crop. More in- 
stances, however, are wanting to confirm this singular fact. 
Query — was the preceding barley crop attacked, which thus 
seeded the soil ? 
One other suggestion must be made, respecting homesteads 
and horned cattle ; and this applies not only to the whole of 
the district described in the report, but to the greatest por- 
tion of the farms in England. There is scarcely one farm- 
yard in ten, which is spouted round to keep off the rain- 
water which descends upon the roofs of the buildings ; there 
is not one in a hundred which has its floor impervious to 
water ; and fewer still which have the plane of the floor so 
inclined that the liquid portions shall drain off, and be 
collected in a reservoir, instead of being evaporated into 
the atmosphere. In addition to this reservoir, separate 
tanks* are required for the cow-houses and stables, with 
* Mr. Brakenridge, of Bretton Lodge, can give an instance of a tank which 
cost £50, yielding an annual supply afterwards of £50 worth of manure. 
