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yields in proportion to the corn, and the purer and whiter 
The bread is, the fuperfluous humidity only evaporating 
in the keeping. At Zurich in Swifferland, they keep 
corn eighty years, or longer, by fimilar methods. 
The public granaries at Dantzic are (even, eight, or 
nine, dories high, having a funnel in the niid'it of every 
floor to let down the corn from one to another. They 
are built fo fecurely, that, though every way furrounded 
with water, the corn contracts no damp, and the velfels 
have the convenience of coming up to the walls for their 
lading. The Ruffians pveferve their corn in fubterra- 
nean granaries of the figure of a fugar-loaf, wide below 
and narrow at the top : the hides are well plahered, and 
the top covered with hones. They are very careful to 
have the corn well dried before it is laid into thefe bore- 
houfes, and often dry it by means of ovens ; the dimmer 
dry weather being too fhort to efieft it fufficiently. Dant¬ 
zic is the grand horehoufe or repofitory of all the fruit¬ 
ful kingdom of Poland. The wheat, barley, and rye, 
of a great part of the country are there laid up in parcels 
of twenty, thirty, or fixty, lads in a chamber, according 
to the fize of the room ; and this they keep turning every 
day or two, to preferve it fweet and dt for dripping. A 
thunder-dorm has fometimes been of terrible confequence 
to thefe ltores ; all the corn of the growth of former years 
having been found fo much altered by one night’s thun¬ 
der, that, though over-night it was dry, tit for fliipping 
or keeping, and proper for ufes of any fort, yet in the 
morning it was found clammy and dicking. In this cale 
there is no remedy but the turning of all fuch corn three 
or four times a-day for two months or longer; in which 
time it will generally come to itfelf, though fometimes 
not. This effeCt of thunder and lightning is only ob- 
ferved to take place in fuch corn as is not a year old, or has 
not fweated diffidently in the draw before it was threflied 
out. The latter inconvenience is ealily prevented by a 
timely care ; but as to the former, all that can be done 
is carefully to’ examine all dores of the lad year’s corn 
aftef every thunder-dorm, that, if any of this have been 
fo afteCted, it may be cured in time; for a negleCt of 
turning will certainly dedroy it. 
The prefervation of grain from the ravages of infefts, 
may be bed efte&ed by timely and frequent fcreening, 
and ventilation ; as little or no inconvenience will follow 
corn or malt lodged dry, but what evidently refults from 
a negleCt of thefe precautions. For, whether the ob¬ 
vious damage arife from the weevil, the moth, or the 
beetle, that damage has ceafed at the time the vermin 
make their appearance under either of thefe fpecies, they 
being, when in this lad date of exidence, only pro¬ 
pagators of their refpedtive kinds of vermiculi; which, 
while they continue in that form, do the mifehief. In 
this date they eat little, their principal bufmefs being to 
depofit their eggs, which unerring indincl prompts them 
to do where large colledtions of grain furnifli food for 
their fuccedors while in a vermicular date. It is there¬ 
fore the bufmefs of indudry to prevent future generations 
of thefe ravagers, by dedroyingthe eggs previous to their 
hatching ; and this is bed accomplidied by frequent 
fcreening, and expofure to draughts of wind or fredi air. 
By frequently dirring the grain, the cohefion of their ova 
is broken, and the nidus of thofe minute worms is de- 
droyed, which on hatching colled!: together, and fpin or 
weave numerous neds of a cobweb-like fubdance for their 
fecurity. To thefe neds they attach, by an infinity of 
final 1 threads, many grains of corn together, firh for their 
protection, and then for their food. When their habita¬ 
tions are broken and feparated by the fereen, they fall 
through its fmall interdices, and may be eadly removed 
with the dud. Thofe that elcape an early fcreening may 
be dedroyed by fubfequent ones, while the grain is but lit¬ 
tle injured ; and the corn will acquire thereby a fuperior 
purity. But by inattention to this, and fometimes by 
receiving grain already infeded into the granary, thefe 
vermin, particularly the weevil, will in a ffiort time 
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fpread themfelves in that date every where upon its fur- 
face, and darken even the walls by their number. Under 
fuch circumdances hens with new-hatched, chickens, if 
turned on the heap, will traverfe, without feeding (or 
very fparingly fo) on the corn, wherever they fpread ; 
and are feemingly infatiable in the purfuit of thefe in¬ 
fects. When the numbers are reduced within reach, a 
hen will fly up againfl the walls, and brudi them down 
with her wings, while her chickens feize them with the 
greated avidity. This being repeated as often as they 
wqnt food, the whole fpecies will foon be dedroyed. Of 
the phalirna, and the fmall beetle, they feem equally vo¬ 
racious ; on which -account they may be deemed the mod 
ufeful indruments in nature for eradicating thefe noxious 
and dedruftive vermin from corn. 
CORN,/ An excrefcence on the feet, hard and pain¬ 
ful ; probably fo called from its form, though by forne 
fuppofed to be denominated from its corneous or horny 
fubdance.—The hardeft part of the corn is ufually in the 
middle, thruding itfelf in a nail ; whence it has the La¬ 
tin appellation of c/avis. Wijbnan. 
He fird that ufeful fecret did explain, 
That pricking corns foretold the gath’ring rain. Gay. 
To CORN, v. a. To fait; to fprinkle with fait. The 
word is fo ufed, as Skinner obferves, by the old Saxons, 
To granulate, or form into grains, like gunpowder. 
CORN-CHANDLER,/ One that retails corn. 
CORN-CUTTER,/ A man whofe profeflion is to 
extirpate corns from the foot.—.The nail was not loofe, 
nor did feem to prefs into the fleffi ; for there had been 
a corn-cutter, who had cleared it. Wifeman. 
CORN-FIELD,/ A field where corn is growing : 
It was a lover and his lafs, 
That o’er the green corn-field, did pafs. Shakcfpeare , 
CORN-FLAG,/ in botany. See Gladiolus. 
CORN-FLOOR.,/ The floor where corn is dored, or 
threflied.-—Thou had loved a reward upon every corn- 
fioor. HoJ'. ix. i. ■ 
CORN-LAND,/ Land appropriated to the produc¬ 
tion of grain.—Padures and meadows are of fuch advan¬ 
tage to hufbandry, that many prefer them to corn-lands., 
Mortimer. 
CORN-MARIGOLD. See Chrysanthemum. 
CORN-MASTER,/! One that cultivates corn for fale. 
Not in ujh. —I knew a nobleman in England, that had the 
greated audits of any man in my time ; a great grafier, a 
great dieep-mader, a great timber-man, a great collier, a 
great corn-majler, and a great lead-man. Bacon. 
CORN-MILL, / A mill to grind corn into meal.-— 
Save the more laborious work of beating of hemp, by 
making the axle-tree of the corn-mills longer than ordi¬ 
nary, and placing pins in it to raife large hammers, 
Mortimer. 
The fird corn-mill moved by water, of which we have 
any account, was dtuated near the reddence of Mithri- 
dates ; and one was erected on the Tiber, a little before 
the time of Augudus. Windmills are fird mentioned in 
a diploma, dated in 1105, in which a convent in France 
is allowed to erect molcndina ad ventian. 
CORN-PIPE,/ A pipe made by hitting the joint of 
a green balk of corn : 
Now the dirill corn-pipes , echoing loud to arms, 
To rank and file reduce the dragglingfwarms. Ticked. 
CORN-RENTS,/ in law, aprovifionby 18 Eliz. c. 6\ 
on college leafes, for one-third of the old rent to be re- 
ferved in wheat or malt, &c. This was the invention 
of lord treaf’urer Burleigh and fir Thomas Smith, who 
obferved-the value of money to fink much, and the price 
of providons to rife greatly, on our communication with 
the Indies ; and therefore they devifed this method for 
upholding the revenues cf the colleges, z Comm. 322. 
CORN-SALLAD, C. in botany. See Vai.er.jana, 
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