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ftroying the farina of the male flowers, and hence 
light orlean ears of corn. A reference to maltfters 
and millers might tend to elucidate the obfervation. 
I fhall only add, that in regard to melon feeds, 
thofe are preferred by gardeners, which have been 
preferved five or fix years, perhaps more; new feed, 
I apprehend, producing plants greatly luxuriant in 
vine, with male and female flowers fo defective, 
that practitioners cannot fet the fruit: in one of 
the volumes of the Philofophical Tranfaétions, an 
account is given of melon feed being good after 
forty years keeping. * 
A LOVER OF AGRICULTURE, 
LETTER. II. 
Tue real caufe of Burnts or Bunts in wheat has 
puzzled many; and I believe very few perfons, for 
want of philofophical knowledge, have been able 
to point out the true reafon for it, upon principles 
whereby it may be difcovered. Mr. Fletcher, of 
Sheffield,* has given the following obfervations, 
which appear to me very pertinent; and being in 
the hands of but few, may prove acceptable to fome 
of your readers. , 
* See Gentleman’s Scientifical Repofitory, vol. i. p. 111. 
“ Burnts, 
