in husbandry, an operation performed on the wheat-seed, in order to prevent the grain. Aliquotristo be prepared for this purpose, by putting 70 gallons of water into a tub (like a mash-tub used for brewing), and a corn-bushel of unflaked lime-stone. This is to be well stirred till the whole is dissolved, and left to stand for 30 hours; after which it is to be drained off into another tub, in the manner practised for beer. In this way about a hogshead of strong lime-water will be obtained, to which must be added three pecks of salt. The wheat must be steeped in this pickle, by running it gently, and in small quantities, into a broad-bottomed basket of about 24 inches in diameter, and 20 inches deep, and stirring it. The light seed that floats must be strained off with a strainer, and must not be sown. When the basket has been drawn up, and drained of the pickle, the wheat will be fit for sowing in two hours after the brining.