778 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
proucht out mano eee 
brought out many parallel cases, or cases which 
appear parallel to his. Amongst others, Mr. 
WALLACE, of Houghton, Stockbridge, Hants, 
l drai 
s; 
ood that has done him mischie 
ee my - been a great "x in my lam 
an i symptoms were very sim what Me. 
Mechi describes. "When - bate were TOM ill I was 
ing seen anythin 
like it before. I changed the food, dien phi ds of the | 
far m, without any benefit (my mbs have been eating 
m. I head p 2b SR. 
and a it 
NE dla food, but bad - Ai eer ble 
be sent f. He ti 
‘heat of the day. Fortunately I have some abun- iy 
Il A never-failing springs from my deep | dec 
ol 
cake r, and finding it did not jelly 
out p ought to qh I stopped the cake, and 
within a KA time T could distinctly see an alteration 
for the bet I then sent three lambs alive to the 
Poesia Cites, 6 Camden Town. When they died, 
0n being examine t Len — a 
have died from infammat af mbra 
of the Be grunts rt aking the "s [d 
eating ; in ihe meantime I sont s a part of the cake to 
t read Dr. Voelcker’s 
ue upon the a dolter d rid "Wt. oileake in the last 
number of the Zoyal Agricultural Society's Journal 
for 1863—where he men lona PAM the analysis does 
not tell everything, as clever oileake maker 
can make a cake to analyse well, but still be composed 
of so d fo very pr dag from pure Hine 9M. ed 
it to be examined thor ghly for adu lteration. Both 
ne ge ben 
reports it as being ea from fter dirty seed, and 
that it is not a gen r pur eed cake, but 
the extreme | the €— 
shelter from the sun's 's rays s during i the ex p with sient a ded gas, evolved D 
deas sed outside 
W 
if erve 
intaet for an indefini riod. e moisture ill it, ; and ne 
contain i = 
grain 
fr. : v a 
** Roads and Rails," pr bé ( : 8 we 
THE pt BTIFICIAL DRYING or GmarN is one of in ‘large cast-iron canisters, built of plates 
de means that have been adopted at different | casometer—thr ee which warm air mi 
times, and with varying success, for its preserva- | pumped till it was quite dry, after whi 
on. It is well-known that most organic bodies, ye De mer. sealed, .to the exelusio 
i te o ness, ep 
a ngst the many chemical m 
when once their natural moisture has been been used to rome extent for preserving und 
i le i e lp ae 
hurous 
[Avavsr 13, 1864, 
ial spaces between the grain gem. 
at haye 
n, ate 
y | ean be. 
y mention as one, the discovery in 1707, at grain for xp sah 
e i Whea 
o SION after its being reaped, was found 1852 
annlie: 
1ust in 
hast ening “the! epidermis of grain it is thus not so wa y. 
liable to the attacks of fee ets. The absolute 
was so well kept that the bread made from it, | Tho injection of chlorine was again 
in Englan 
0 
o be lent. The grain had probably been employed. ‘These chemical fumi ations 
thoroughly dred i in the sun before being sto wed evidently in some instances injure ti grain, à 
most e 
ga 
ap 
easy of access to the moisture of Ha we, por 80; The mechanical means are all Phan 
E 
E 
YII RR 
ac e 
weight of grain is diminished by the application of ing anit 
: ifie 
we soe 
heat, while its specific weight i is increased. When often as po: sat gin aa gud as called th 
ie 
abso 
ens ithe da refuse, [s or pollard, “and nut cake; 
th at 
y and so metimes acts like a rank | 
poison, ne d r says i tis not made fro pure Lin- 
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qua 
tity of Rape, and some starch of a cere E appa arently | 
Wheat, ben E is ae! due to abe painon 8 
me bra oth It acid 
test aren: KT a 
seed which has de 
has been damaged in some other w 
ore idea that ane a 
tifio 
bushels of Wheat are bone 3 ore by water | am 
and heating when trans wt lakes od The don ove a ay be considered as a short state- 
canals. Such Wheat sells i 3 New r York k and other| ment of tho advantages that would be derived 
| places for a very few cents. per bushe E A prac- | from i good "e for drying peer artificially, 
EL Te for dryin g grain D'tificiall ould give T: pella ow ever, involved some 
power of seasoning it alm Sg oe seasoning heat—taken singly- ia 
f its x felt. A a bad poles of heat, through itsown 
;|molecular structure and eomposition; while thi 
of | non-conduotibility is ased in a mass by 
air filling up the interstices between the — 
individual F rains, It es a very — 
ve to eve re heated 
ithe “Po oie a 
Ree | estore too low 
with the linseed? Dr. Voelcker for insufficiency of heat Rd neither — 
ia, e - 5 e larva, nor the insect; 
2 nuts. (It i l g ag e while the moisture natural to g is 
case where a num ae of boy te nu i eating adopted at nn n r keeping corn from |]eft undisturbed. Of course, i l 
some peculiar sort of td they found in bags at a|fermenting in the granary, oportion of anti 
railway station.) sittin a siairiet of 10 miles I kno The re onde of the Patent Office show that a d ? TT 2 IMS M see p. 3 
f. o less dozen cases where parties Rave several patents are built upon the phenomenon destroyed, this is sufficient to ruin the na ae 
E. s "la een | that grain always begins t 5 ompose from the | Jot as seed, Authorities appear to differ as 4 
beret 1 t 
witb E we sake until they 
impro irs d Mg p teen inge - ere affected would 
die; as I T. to be th with my lambs, for I | 
believe i of 360, all "eating this Lin "seed c ake e were 
affected more or de to make | 
A A use se yon yos of the above information, as it isa! 
epy concerning agriculturists." | Th 
8 poi e quite agree with Mr. WALLACE, | 
d om that. the subject will not be allowed to 
drop eco Baa of our readers who hay 
had. an thing like his experience will relate it. 
Mr. MECHI Bac aere $e ie tU. denideniy 
i ot been ca yit 
pesa [o^ are ec: 
e|low and unchan ing genii the — | p 
| a: hea 
T e grain at the guise, 3 is kept dry by the con- injury. nie 
can support roll 50° to 100° inti rade 
i carried off kem the outside sf the heap; but if the np upor renhošt) with ont E : y inj 
nd | At about 10e entigrade, however, tbe 
its germ 
ar s 
made into bread, the pE it had lost is again nen and the: 
rbe d. fr 
gr 
lay: es diyided by oe nal fu Tt 
TE ‘thousands, "e milion, » — - once A t ug <= d take upa large $> 
of r 
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"s ef a heap, while the outside is left intact. | limits within which grain oan 1 
tinu bos wing of the air. The moisture is thus 
ffects, 
Amongs the pie Ree E Mens used for riui of the grain 
u 
preserying grain are those of shakin and 
eaps 
e of e 
MI an endless deca or 4 Jaeob's ladder which is | grater ES E. = 
means have 
ey 
a het | s ney v% found to injure the germi- 
rope vertios of Wheat. These 
Y 
scale, by which it can be heat tvidoly vary on account of the 
use | on the g ing more or less absorbed by the 
midity nian within it. 
n any —— = is found that the germin 
as hollow columns, hoppers proportion o of Whe heat are peer [nnd 
3 linders, from it in 
or br the grains ino 
Figs 2 f sli yw the Siete p; 
1 stages ie oe huh a coils i allu 
these plans would pr bab y do tae "et ing * with different Wheat "biog 
SH 
wil 
of 
we 
EEE re OT MR 
i 
Pa IIS 
state of the grain. 
more harm than good, as they would then favour 
the increase of insect life 
Plans were proposed A France in 1828 and b i: zi Feka is ie = to the et : l 
gare for injecting cold air into stored-up i p M LS C meet 
s, instead of the grain being moved through oa pain ing. the apparatus i 
ty air, as by the preceding means, the air itself is 
- iven' through the grain, and with a similar ied put za niit proper to this 
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re or less ellicient result. is dans to drive off this so nd 
ye the e grain. 5s 
grain in su jan pla ous t 
dpt. and hermetically closed, called Silos in| are 
such 
French and Spanish. The grain is thus kept at a | — —€— 
in 
at t d the 
oe pts A m pga it aun Ist. yi certain tem ae 
linghas thio enoug kill the i ere 
8 tne 
n 
es to be met w. 
et pi is at 
for 
insects, not 2 high as 
qe 
