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Produce.—Two hundred and fifty ears in all; none smut- ted.

No. 8. The same seed clean, and used without any prepa- ration.

Produce.—Ears in ali one hundred and eighty-eight; none smutted.

No. 9. The same kind of seed clean, and washed in com- mon water,

Produce.—Ears in all two hundred and fifty; none smut- ted.

No. 10. The same seed blacked with the powder of smut- balls, and sown in that state without pickling.

Producé.—Bars in all two hundred and forty seven; one hundred and forty of them were smutted.

No. 11. The same seed blacked as aboye, and prepared with lime and common water.

Produce.—In all three hundred and fourteen ears; twenty- two of them smutted.

No. 12. The same seed blacked as above, and sown with- out pickling or any preparation.

Produce.—1n all one hundred and ninety-six ears; ninety of 1bem smutted.

No. 13. The same clean seed sown without any preparation.

Produce.—In all three hundred ears; none of them smut- ted.

No. 14. Here twelve small, very small, shrivelled grains were dibbled. They were very light, and skimmed off the water in which the good wheat was immersed.

Produce.—Nine of the above grains vegetated, and pro- duced ninety sound ears, and three smutted ditto.

Note. The seed was dibbled,(on the 7th of April 1806), within an hour, in all the above rows, and without any variation of weather.

P. S. Your readers will please to observe that as the qua- lity only, of the produce, was the object in view, the number of grains dibbled into the rows varied greatly. Hence the difterence in the quantity produced. The trial was made in the interior part of a large field, and the experiment crop was surrounded with spring wheat. Every part of the expe- riment was made under my own inspection. The greatest accuracy was observed.

In your 2nd Number, an Essex Farmer, says,“ it is not possible, that a farm of four húndred acres can hare been let (in Northumberland) at the enormous rent of three thousand pounds, or more than seven pounds per acre.” This gentle- man has misunderstood what I stated in your first Number.