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which, being tried again Oft. the i8th, weighed | 

 ounce and 1 2 drams, or, at 60 pounds to the buflicl, 

 had loft 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and 22 drams, or about 

 one ft venth of the whole in forty-fcven days. 



N. B, Twenty-four grains of this barley weighed 

 one pennyweight two grains, fo that this corn muft 

 have been fofter, or in a Icis matured ftate, than the 

 grains of wheat in the firft experiment* Since 24 

 grains of plump wheat are reckoned to weigh one* 

 pennyweight, and hence the ftandard of that weight; 

 whereas we fee the pennyweight took 32 grains. 



Wheat. 



Exp. hi. O^, I2d. Put into the fcales fix ounces 

 three drams, which in 24 days loft three drjims, or 

 after the rate of two pounds one ounce, fift^dn drams, 

 per bulhel. 



Wheat. 



Exp, IV. Jan. '^th, 1790. Took two ounces two 

 drams of wheat, which in thirty-two days loft after 

 the rate of 2 pounds 15 drams per bufhel. 



From thcfe cxperinfients it appears that the decreafe 

 in weight was pretty regular from the time of 

 harveft, and the time taken in afcertaining the lofe 



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