94 REMEDY. 



would be to soak the seed in water sufficiently 

 warm to kill the vibriones, which cannot stand 

 a high temperature ; but it must not bd hot 

 enough to destroy the vitaHty of the good 

 seed. The author has frequently shown them 

 to farmers, and witnessed their extreme sur- 

 prise. One individual, having viewed them 

 with astonishment, met his miller in the street 

 - — " You," said he, " may fancy you know a 

 good deal about corn, but you httle know what 

 you often grind ;" and it would be well most 

 certainly for those who are conversant with 

 this principal portion of the food of man, if 

 they were better acquainted with its real pro- 

 perties and with its diseases. 



