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this lofs is considerably greater than when the corn has been kept for fome time.* 

 On thefe grounds it is therefore fufficiently obvious, that thefooner the produce is 

 brought to the market, the greater muft be the advantage to the proprietor, 

 provided other circumflances be the fame* 



* In thefe experiments, 



Wheat, 



On being rubbed out in the hot fun, and weighed the 31ft of Auguft, lb. oz.drs. 



1789, ibon after being cut, afforded . - - 0211 



On being weighed again on the 18th of October 027 



Lofs of weight per bufhel of folbs. nearly -683 



Or almoft one tenth of the whole in forty days. Of this wheat thirty-two grains weighed one 



penny weight. 



It is however obferved that this is the greateft poffible lofs that grain can fuflain, as though it was 



fully ripened it had neither had the advantage of being dried by expofure to the fun after beiiif cut 



r undergone the procefs of fermentation after being put together. 



lb. oz. drt 



Another quantity weighed on the 2 3d of October, produced ~ o 6 3 



Weighed again twenty-four days afterwards, afforded - Q Q o 



Lofs in that time per bufhel, at the rate of - - - 2 1 15 



A further quantity weighed on the Sth of January, 1790, produced - 022 



Loft per bufheljon being weighed again thirty-two days aftrwardsj,at the rate of 2. o 1J 



Barley, 



On being weighed September the 2d, under fimilar circunaftances, pro 

 duced - - - - - . - - * . . 022 

 On being again weighed Oclober the I Sth, afforded - I 12 



Lofs of weight per bufliel of ftOlbs. - - - - - - 84. 22 



Or about one feventh of the whole in forty-feven daya. Twenty-four grains of this barley weighed one 

 penny-weight two grains. 



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