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condly, that corn which has contraded a bad fmell, may be cleared 

 of it by the kiln and wind-fcreen. 



Having found by the foregoing experiments, that good corn, well 

 cleaned, and properly ftove dried, may be preferved without venti- 

 lation; and that good corn tolerably dry may be preferved by venti- 

 lation only ; we conclude, that it muft be moft advantageous to join 

 both methods, efpecially for large granaries. 



Experimeiit G?t 825 cubic feet of fine icheat lightly fovc dried, and 



'ventilated. 



THIS wheat was of the year 1750, and confequently but of a 

 middling quality. After being well cleaned, and lightly llovc 

 dried, it was put in the granary of prefervation, about i^ss^w feet 

 deep, which granary had bellows worked by a wind-mill. 



This corn had a bad fmell, which was not entirely dilTipated by 

 the kiln, but it was quite cleared of it by ventilation. It was not 

 -only well preferved thereby, but was fo meliorated, and became of 

 fo good a quality, that the bakers preferred it to all other, and gave 

 two-pence a fack more for it, than for the fame wheat preferved in 

 the common way. 



It is certainly moft advantageous to unite both methods, not only 

 becaufe they are moft effecflual in preferving corn, when joined to- 

 gether, but alfo becaufe they are then leaft troublefome and ex- 

 penfive; for to ftove dry it fufficiently to keep without ventilation, 

 requires a large fire and long attendance ; and to preferve it without 

 ilove drying, will require very frequent ventilation; whereas, by 

 joining the two methods, both are rendered very eafy and lefs ex- 

 penfive, and the fuccefs is more certain. 



Dr. Hales obferves, that kiln-drying often makes corn grind un- 

 kindly; and therefore propofes the following method of drying 

 fmutty corn, after it has been waflied ; cold air not hurting it, as 

 kiln-drying is found to do. " That I might be well alTured, fays 

 ** he, of the good effedl of thus drying fmutty corn, having pro- 

 -«« cured a quantity of very fmutty wheat, which weighed feven 

 " pounds and fifteen ounces ; on the twenty-fixth of May, at five 

 *' in the morning, it was waftied clean in four feveral waters, which 

 " was done in a few minutes, and was then laid to drain in an oat- 

 *■* fieve, till half an hour after five,when it had increafed in weight, 

 «* by wetting, ten ounces, befides the moifture that was equal to 

 «< the weight of the fmut-balls and fmutihat was wafiied from the 

 J *♦ wheat. 



