Pe ae 
“ Burnts, or bunts, are occafioned by a number 
of nitrous, fulphureous, and heterogeneous particles; 
thefe particles, when mixed together, caufe a fer- 
mentation; whence the aqueous and more fimple 
parts are diffipated, and the other more denfe, 
corrofive corpufcles are formed in drops, and fall 
upon the tender buds of corn; and being fufcepti- 
ble of abforbing the folar rays, burn and deftroy 
them. Asto preventing or eradicating duruis or 
bunts, it feems an impoffibility, they being neither 
an accidental nor parafitical malady; but thofe 
lands which abound with mineral exhalations, are 
moft fubject to this malignant deftructive malady, 
and particularly when the feafon is hot.” 
7a eee, 
LETTER. IV. 
Tue two anfwers you have received to Farmer 
Slouch’s requeft, concerning bunty wheat, do not 
appear to me, and to many farmers, any ways fatis- 
factory, as they both feem to proceed from the chi- 
meras of fpeculative farmers, and not from thofe 
who have derived any real knowledge from expe- 
riment. “ 4 Lover of Agriculture” recommends 
old feed for fowing, (which perhaps may have loft 
its vegetative principle) as the beft means to pre- 
vent 
