9S DISTEMPERS OF CORN. Parti. 



ftemper'd grain, produced as many diflemper'd ears, as grain ori- 

 ginally infe<3:ed with it. This powder does not lofe its contagious 

 quality in a great degree of heat, nor indeed unlefs it be quite 

 parched. It retains it for years as flrongly as at firft. 



5. This chofeh feed fteep'd in a lye made of quick-lime and fea- 

 falt, gave fewer diliemper'd ears, than when Ibwn without being 

 fleep'd. It produced fiill lefs of them when falt-petre was ufed 

 inllead of lea-falt. 



6. The circumilance of fowing late or early, feem'd of little 

 confequehce. 



Many farmers think it a very neceflary precaution to wafh the 

 facks into vv'hich they put their feed corn, becaufe they think that 

 even the fmell may infed; the found feed. M. Tillet thinks that if 

 the fower has any of the powder on his hand, it will infedt part of 

 the corn he ibws. 



i, The fame gentleman thinks he has remarked, that diflemper'd 

 plants of wheat are more ealily affedted by froft, than found ones. 

 If fo, ftrong frofts are of great fervice, becaufe, at the fame time 

 that they deilroy thofe diflemper'd plants, they render the earth 

 better able to afford futlicient nourifhment to the found ones. 



By M. Tillet's experiments, the contagious powder of wheat 

 does not affeft rye, or four row'd barley or bigg. 



M. Tillet tried many experiments to diicover the mofl effedtual 

 cures for this diflemper; from v/hich he draws the following con- 

 clufions : 



1 . The effedl of the black powder is only fuperficial, and does 

 not affedt the internal parts of the grain before it is fown in the 

 earth. 



2. Whatever therefore removes this powder from off the outer 

 furface, v/ill greatly conduce to preferve corn from this di- 

 flemper. 



3. Grain perfectly free from all infeftion of this powder, will 

 not produce diflemper'd grain. 



4. Grain blacken'd with this contagious powder, may be render'd 

 found, by clearing it entirely of the powder. 



5. The adtion of fifting, and the precaution of wafhing the grain 

 in feveral waters, leifen the effefts of the contagion : but they are 

 not faflicient to cure it ; for he found feveral ears with burnt grain, 

 tho' the feed had been wa(hed in feveral waters. 



6. Lime, tho' of greater elficacy than plain water, is not alone 



I fufficient 



