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" nine inches long ; and, that it may be the eafier thruft down to 

 '•* the bottom of the corn in the fack, its end is to be made taper 

 " to a point, by a Avooden phig that is fixed in, and llops the ori- 

 " fice. About an hundred and iifty fmall holes, of one eighth of 

 '' an inch diameter, are to be bored on all fides of the flick, from 

 " its bottom, to two feet ten inches of its length ; but no nearer 

 •' to the furface of tlie corn, left too great a proportion of the air 

 *' Ihould efcape there. By wreathing a pack-thread in a fpiral 

 '*■ fcrew-like form round the ftick, the boreing of the holes may 

 *' be the better regulated, fo as to have them about half an inch 

 *' diftant towards the bottom, but gradually at wider diftances, fo 

 '* as to be an inch afunder at the upper part : by which means the 

 *' lower part of the <;orn will have its due proportion of frefli air. 

 " To the top of the ftick let there be fixed a leathern pipe ten 

 '• inches long ; which pipe is to be diftended by two yards of fpiral 

 " wire coiled up within it. Or a tin pipe may be fit-ted to it for 

 " the fame purpofe, having a piece of leather faftened to the other 

 ** end, to receive the nofe of the bellows. At the upper part of 

 " the pipe is fixed a taper wooden faucet, into which the nofe of 

 "a common houflrold bellows is to be put, in order to ventilate the 

 *^ corn. 



♦' If corn, when firft put into facks, "be thus aired every other, or 

 *' third day, for ten or fifteen minutes, its damp fweat, which 

 " would hurt it, will, in a few weeks, be carried off to fuch a de- 

 ** gree, that afterwards it will keep fweet with very little airing, as 

 *' has been found by experience. 



" By the fame means many other kinds of feeds, as well as corn, 

 *' may be kept fweet, either in facks or fmall bins : but then in 

 ** bins the air-holes muft be made only near the bottom of the 

 *' canes, becaufe the air muft in that cafe all afcend upward, fince 

 *' it cannot go through the fides of the bin, as it will through 

 *« facks," 



Experiments on y^ cubic feet of new wheat, extreamly moijl, and 

 •which had already contraBed a bad fmelL 



THE harveft of 1745 was very rainy, and all the corn had grown 

 in the ear. In the common granaries, it was always in a ftate 

 of fennentation, the' laid but a foot deep, and turned every four or 

 £ve days. 



Seventy- 



