f 286 j 
If any conclufion may be drawn from the experi- 
ments herewith accompanied, I fhould think that 
* A Lover of Agriculture” is not right in fup- 
pofing the caufe of burnts arifes from corn not per- 
fectly ripe, or impregnated with the farina of the 
male, becaufe the trials above were fown with the 
fame feed on the fame land; and think I may be 
allowed to fay at the fame time; No. I. and II. were 
without burnts, No. III. and IV. had plenty of 
them. Ifthe weak or unripe corns had produced 
burnts, of courfe they would have been in No. I. 
and II. as well as in No. III. and IV. unlefs we 
prefume that urine and lime have a power of pre- 
venting the vegetation of the weak or unripe corns; 
and if they have a power to prevent the vegetation 
of the weak or unripe corns, it is not unreafonable to 
fuppofe they may in fome meafure weaken the good, 
and be a means of giving birth to the very difeafe 
intended to be extirpated; which in practice I have 
not found to be true. 
Refpecting J. B---h’s reafon given for the caufe, 
it is true it is philofophic, and, from common. ob- 
fervation only, I fhould have concluded it was the 
true one; but a too intimate acquaintance with 
burnts, obliges me to diffent. If the caufe came 
from the atmofphere, I fhould think it fingular in= 
deed if fen rows in the middle of a twenty-acre 
clofe received the whole of the malady, and the other 
part of the corn growing on each fide none at all. 
If 
