JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE A R TS. 



NOVEMBER, 1805. 



ARTICLE I, 



jFacls and Ohfervations relating to the Blight, and other Difeafes 

 of Corn. In a Letter from G. Cumberland, Efq. 



To Mr; NICHOLSON, 

 SIR, Wefton-fupra-Mare, 10th October, 1805. 



XIlLTHOUGH not much in the habit of taking any thing Reference to the 

 on truft, I muft confefs, that when early in the fpring the Pamphlet of Sir 

 pamphlet of Sir Jofeph Banks, called, A Jhort Account of the t J h tw i g hT* °* 

 Cauje of the Difeafe in Corn, called by the Farmers, the Blight, corn. 

 the Mildew, and theRujl*, came to my knowledge, I felt 

 very much inclined on the credit of bis extenfive fame to 

 receive with a favourable prejudice, what was io poiitively 

 announced as information, on a fubject that we may all, I 

 iuppofe, be allowed to have fomething to do with. 



Having therefore much leifure, and being placed in a fa- Corn fowed near 

 vourable fituation to make obfervations, I began doing all that abarbm * buftu 

 could then be done, viz. planting fome wheat near a barberry 

 bum, and fearching carefully for the yellow ruft on the early 

 leaves. 



* Inferted intire in our Journal X. p. 225* 



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