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RESULT. 
No. I. and IT. fcarcea burnt to be found in them. 
No. III. about a twentieth part burnt. 
No. IV. near a fourth burnt. 
No. V. Picked ten good corns out of an ear, the 
remainder were burnt; planted them in the garden; 
fix only vegetated, which produced 72 ears, ove root 
of which only was burnt, confequently the opinion 
that the good corns in a burnt ear produce burnts 
again is fallacious, otherwife the whole muft have 
been burnt. 
The above experiments feem to fay that wetting 
wheat with old urine, and drying it with lime, is a 
preventive; and I conceive that an infect, by de- 
pofiting its egg, eggs, or feed, on the corn when 
growing, is the cau/e of éurnts. Suppefing this to 
be the cafe, the wetting the corn with brine, urine, 
or {trong lye, would of courfe deftroy fome of the 
eggs or feed, or even an animalcule, and the lime 
by its corrofive quality annihilate the remainder; 
but fhould any of the eggs, &c. remain on the corn | 
animable, there may be here and there a Burnt in 
the crop. But if on the other hand the infect. 
fhould depofit its egg, eggs, or feed, in the earth, 
it is poffible the brine, urine, and lime, wherewith 
the corn is as it were coated when fowed, may be 
unpleafing to the delicate tafte of the little animal, 
; and prevent its wounding the tubes of the plant. 
If 
