^^1 0/t the Value of Ccrns ivheti ufed for DifillaUon. Nov>.. 



Barley, i bufhel 



Malt, 



Oats, 



The biffjel (himpte) Is = 1631 French cubic inches. 



The pou/id =: 10,014 Dutch afs, or 16 oz. 1 dr. 



The pint (maafs) = 624- French cubic inches. 



The fpecific gravity of the fpirits, at 64° Fahrenh. therm, 

 is = 0,930. 



If we ought to determine the prices of different corns by their 

 contents of fpirits in given meafiires^ of the weights above men- 

 tioned, their value neceffarily would be as the numbers 11, 9, 7, 

 d, 3t'* But if the richnefs of different corns is to be eftimated 

 by the quantity of fpirits contained in the fame iveightj their real 

 intrinfic value will be as the numbers 207, 180, 166, 200, 126. 



The above table proves, that the faccharine matter or fpirits 

 contained in differefit corns, is not exacl:ly in the proportion of 

 their rcfpe6live weights ; but, in various forts of the fame kind, 

 experience has fhown the fpirits produced increafe nearly in the 

 fame proportion as the weights. 



The prices of different corns, however fluctuating, as in other 

 countries, are, in general, in the north of Germany, proportional 

 to their produce of fpirits. 



If the nourifhing part or food contained in a vegetable ij 

 proportional to the faccharine matter or fpirit produced, the 

 rye feems, by this comparifon, to poffefs greater advantage over 

 oats and barley than is commonly fuppofed. 



An inhabitant of the northern counties is furprifed to fee the 

 former plant not more cultivated in England and Scotlanci. That 

 lands and foils which can produce wheat are not employed for 

 lye, IS very natural •, but that oats and barley have the fame right 

 of excluding rye from all other foils, feems to indicate fome 

 ftronger reafon than the national prejudice againft rye bread, -}• 

 which is fo prevalent in this country, as this plant fucceeds very 

 well upon almofl all foils. X A. 



* This proportion is analogous to the ftatement of Mr J. J. G. Weifa, 

 German author, whofe treatife on the diftlllation of corn is perhaps 

 the beft and the moft praAical yet publifhed In any language. 



f The fame prejudice exifts againfl oat bread in Sweden, and fome 

 Bther northern countries, where the pOoreft people can be compelled 

 «nly by the greeted neceflity, In times of fcarcity, to be fed with It. 



X I faw, the pad year, a very good crop of rye at the farm of the 

 ingenious and learned Dr Thaer, at Zelle, near Hanover, on a very 

 poor fand. His field was managed in the moft perfeft Ilylc of the 

 Norfolk drill hufbandry, and much fuperior to the adjacent broadcaft 

 crops. 



