Excerpt from A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn, Called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew, and the Rust Agriculturists do not appear to have paid, on this head, sufficient attention to the discoveries of their fellow-la bourers in thejfield of nature; for though scarce any English writer cf note on the subject of rural economy has failed to state his opinion of the origin'of this evil, no one of them has yet attributed it to the real cause, unless Mr. Kirby' S ex cellent papers on some diseases of corn, published in the'transactions of the Lin uman Society, are considered as agricul tural essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.