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to decide the comparative merit of your 
Lordship’s and other ploughs, we will im- 
dertake that the experiment shall be made 
in Norfolk or Suffolk whenever your LoixL 
ship pleases. 
If the Secretary to the Board succeeds to 
his wishes, in exploding the drill husbandry, 
there will be no occasion for the use of ' Mr. 
Ducket’s new-invented hand-hoe/ 
Mr. Talbot Dillon, Under Secretary to 
the Board, we apprehend, might with more 
propriety have sent his errata to his printer 
than to have made it the subjedl of two 
pages in the Communications. 
We have carefully perused the experiments 
and observations communicated to the Board 
by Sir John Call, Bart, and Robert Somer- 
ville, Esq. respecting the ‘ smut and blight 
of wheat,’ and we are most decidedly of Sir 
John’s opinion, which is so ably confirmed 
by his reasonings and experiments, viz. that 
the smut and biioht of wheat are not com- 
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municated to the corn by any animalcula, 
inseCls, or corrosive subs^tance, conveyed in 
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