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befidcs tkc rats, mice, and other vermin, he has a 

 fecretand filent,but never-ceafing en cmjr, continually 

 making depredations upon his property, as the fol- 

 lowing experiments, to aibertain the lofs that grain, 

 efpecially wheat, fuftains, will verify. 



EXPERIMENT I. 



AUGU^ST 51ft, 1789. 



Gathered and rubbed a few ears of wheat during a 

 glowing fun, which being immediately put into the 

 fcales weighed 2 ounces 11 drams. October the 

 1 8th, being put into the fcales again, then weighed 

 2 ounces 7 drams. The lofs of weight per bulhel 

 of 70 pounds (the cuftomary meafure of this neigh- 

 bourhood) is 6 pounds, 8 ounces, and 3 drams, 

 nearly, or almoft one-tenth of the whole in 49 days. 

 But this is the greateft lofs that grain can pofTibly 

 fuftain, which, although perfedlly ripe, had neither 

 the advantage of being dried in the fun after being 

 reaped, nor had it undergone the procefs of fermen- 

 tation after being got together.— —N. B. Thirty- 

 two grains weighed one penny-weight. 



Barley. 



E»p. ir. Sffpf. 2. Under the fame circumftances 

 put into the fcales 2 ounces and 2 drariis of barkyv 



which 



