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Maize, which is not reaped till Oftober, is not 

 eatable immediately, unlefs very nicely dried, (and 

 this drying requires much more care than wheats) 

 it alfo fpoils very foon j and however well it may 

 be got in, even if it does not appear to be altered, 

 it acquires from the month of June, a confiderablc 

 degree of acidity, which renders it Icfs agreeable, and 

 lefs wholefome ; befides, the property which it has, 

 of fo quickly fattening animals fed with it, proves 

 that it is not fo wholefome a food as wheat, which, 

 without fattening them fo foon, gives them a firm- 

 nefs and flavour; it appears alfo by this, that it 

 does not give them a firmnefs of fibres; and may 

 not this be one of the caufes, fo well eftabliflied, 

 that many people in America, who live only on 

 maize, are fo inferior in phyfics and morality to the 

 European nations? 



Monf. LiNGUET has not had an opportunity of 

 tailing preparations of buck- wheat or millet; if he 

 had tafted them, he would not have advifed any 

 perfon to fubllitute them in the place of thofe pre- 

 pared from wheat; And even if thefe plants could 

 furnifli fo agreeable and fo wholefome a food, yet 

 they would be liable to many real objections. All 

 the millets impovcrilh land to fuch a degree, that 

 if they are often fown in the fanae land, it will 

 Z 3 produce 



