96 DISTEMPERS OF C0R^7. Parti. 



within four inches of the brim, and then pour in the lye well 

 ftirred before-hand. When the tub is full, let the lye run out at 

 the bottom, into- feme other veffel, in order to ufe it again for 

 more corn. Let the grain be then taken out and laid in a heap to 

 drain J and continue in this manner to fteep all your feed corn. 

 The wheat thus prepared, may be fowed the next day, and muft 

 not be kept above five or fix days, for fear of its heating. This we 

 fay from experience. The quantity of lye above prefcribed, will 

 ferve to prepare twelve or thirteen hundred weight of wheat. 



Le Charbon. 



''"T^HE French feem to give it this name, from the grain's appear- 

 •*■ ing as if burnt. We lliall therefore tranflate it burnt-grain. 

 Mr. Lille calls it ujUlago, or burnt-ear. 



The ears attacked with this diftemper, are not, at firft, readily 

 diftinguifhed from the found : but after they have paft blooming, 

 they become of a brown green, and afterwards turn whitifh, bv 

 which they are then eafily known. The burnt grain n fometimes 

 larger, and at other times lets than found grain. It fwims on 

 water. This diftemper affedis only the grain. The ears remain 

 in a found ftatc : only they are white, and drier than found ears. 



Though all the cars which proceed from the fame plant are 

 ufually attacked with this diftemper, yet we now and then find 

 found ears on the fame plant with the infefted : nay, we have 

 fometimes feen the grains of one half of an ear found, whilft 

 thofe of the other half were burnt ; and at other times only a 

 few found grains in a diftemper'd ear. We have likewife feen, 

 though very feldom, one part of a grain found, when the other 

 part was burnt. M. Aimen has frequently cut all the ears ofi' a 

 fiourifhing plant, and others have grown in their ftead ; but the 

 grain was burnt. This, fays he, accounts for our fo frequently 

 meeting with burnt grain in fields, where fome of the ears have 

 been broken down by hail, in May. 



When a burnt grain is crumbled, as it generally mav, with eafe, 

 betwixt one's fingers, the infide is of a dark brown colour, and 

 the fubftance contained within it, ftill retains fome degree of firni- 

 nefs. 



We have faid, that fmutty grains being often carried off by 

 wind, or waftied away by rain, do no great damage to the found 

 grain. It is not fo with the burnt grains ; for many of them are 



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