4^3 O F G R A N A R I E S. Part IV. 



barley emitted fo great a quantity of moifture, that the boards at the 

 bottom of the granary were quite warped by it : and this grain heated 

 to fuch a degree, that the bellows worked by baud could not cool it, 

 tho' conftantly applied for eighteen months together. Wh.n this gra- 

 nary was emptied, we found the boards covered with a (linking glu- 

 tinous moifture,which had communicated itfclf to the whole mafs of 

 this corn. I then judged that all of it was fpoiled, efpecially as the 

 heat had fpread to every part of the granary, and the outfide of the 

 corn was rotted all over for near two inches deep, and ftuck. to the 

 iides and bottom of the granary. I likewife perceived that a pro- 

 digious number of weevils had bred in this granary. Notwithftand- 

 ing all this, I refolved to try whether I could make anything of this 

 corn. To this end, I ordered it to be put into my ftove; afterwhicb 

 I fifted and winnowed it, to clear it of the grains that had no flour 

 in them, which were pretty numerous. This operation leflened the 

 mafs by about one twelfth : but the good corn was very dry, and hacJ 

 no bad fmell. I have put it back into the fame granary, to fee 

 whether it will be poffible to keep it after this ftove-drying. 



Experiments on the Prefervation of Corn, by Dom Edward Provenchere* 

 Procurator of the Carthujians of Liget, near Loches, 



1 N i755> Dom Edward intending to make fome experiments on 

 -*" the prefervation of corn, chofe for that purpofe a large caflc, 

 ^t'oiie end of which he put a double barred grate, and' over 

 that a canvas. This caik was filled with wheat of the harvert: of 

 1754, not ftove-dried, and contained 1080 pound weight. He then 

 fixed to it a pair of middle fiz'd bellows, fo fituated that they might 

 cafily be worked. Nearly in the center of this corn, he put as many 

 V'eevils as weighed fix drachms; which is pretty conAderable for 

 that quantity of corn. 



The bellows were blown an hour every week. In the beginning 

 of September, when that operation had been negledled for fome time, 

 the corn began to heat: but it was foon cooled again by uling the 

 bellov.'s. The i 5th of Oftober^ on taking the corn out of tbis eaik, 

 in which it had kept perfedlly well, not above twenty weevils were 

 •found in it. Dom Edward fays he faw that infedtcome out of the 

 caPfC every time the bellows were blown. He perceived in many 

 places feveral grains of corn faflened together by threads, which had* 

 been certainly formed by moths that were in this corn which had not 

 yalu^d : o o ' J been 



