Chap. IV. O F G R A N A R I E S., 469 



been ftove dried, and, not dying immediately, had had time to fpin 

 tlieir web. The experiments, adds M. Duhamel, which I have re- 

 lated in my treatife on the prefervation of corn, have, I beheve, pro- 

 ved lufficiently, that this infedl cannot breed in granaries made after 

 the manner there diredled. I vvilh I had as ftrong proofs of their 

 deftroying the weevil. 



Dom Edward filled another cafk with 900 weight of barley, not 

 ftove-dried, and put into it fix drachms of weevils. Tho' care was 

 taken to ventilate this cafk, as much as the former which was filled 

 with wheat, that is to fay, during an hour eveiy week, yet this corn 

 heated prodigioufly: the bellows could not cool it, and the weevils 

 multiplied in it exceedingly. This is the very thing that happened 

 to me in my krger experiment on the fame kind of grain, and 

 which I mentioned in the preceding article. Barley probably con- 

 tains a great deal of moifture: and the queilion is whether ftove- 

 drying can be able to preferve it. This increafe of the weevils feemff 

 to prove what I faid before, that this infecft cannot multiply in corn 

 that retains a proper degree of coolnefs. 



EiXperiments on the prefervation of com; made at tBe royal abbey of St, 

 Stephen of Caen, by Dom de Sainte Affriquo, prior of that abbey. 



DOM de Sainte Aft^rique kept 1200 bufhels * of wheat in a 

 granary like thofe defcribed in our treatife on the prefer- 

 vation of corn. 



This granary was 12 feet wide, 13 feet long, and 6 feet deep j, 

 which forms a parallelipepede of 936 cubic feet. 



The wheat that was laid up in this granary of prefei-vation, had 

 not been ftove dried} but had been kept all the winter in a common 

 granary. It was cooled from time to time by two bellows, which 

 two men worked by means of a lever. 



Tho' the place in which this granary of prefervation ftood, was 

 neither fo dry nor fo airy as might have been wilhed, the corn kept 

 perfettly well in it. 



Fully iatisfied with this trial, Dom de Sainte Affrique intends ta 

 have large granaries built, with a ftove to dry the corn, and a mill to 

 work the bellows. If he puts this in execution, he will render an, 

 important fervice, not only to bis abbey, but alfo to the public: be- 

 caufe he will thereby be enabled to apply to a larger objedl than has 



* The Caen bufliel weighs 45^ pound9> 



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