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may extend and colled fuftenance at fome feet 

 diftance from the parent feed. 



At this feafon vegetation is nearly at a ftand. It 

 was the end of March, or beginning of April, be- 

 fore the plants began to fhew the lead appearance 

 of recovery from the check occafioned by tranf- 

 planting: however, they then began to fhoot vi- 

 goroufly, and at length, acquired an uncommon 

 degree of ftrength, length, and fize of ear and 

 plumpnefs of grain, and from 1 2 to 24 offsets, or 

 llalks from each plant. I reckon I am much 

 within compafs in fuppofing that the produce of 

 thefe 21 grains was not lefs than 15,000, and the 

 grain as plump and fine as ever I faw, and every 

 corn perfedly free from fmut. It would be ri- 

 dtculous to fuppofe, that this corn was in any refped 

 better than it would have been from found and per- 

 fect feed. Its extraordinary vigour I impute folely 

 to its being tranfplanted into freih ground, well 

 pulverized, which could not fail to give much ad- 

 ditional fuftenance and ftrength to the plants, and 

 would probably afford the greateft produce pof- 

 fible on any given quantity of land. But I am fen- 

 fible it could never anfwer the extra expence, nor 

 be at all pradicable on a large fcale, notwithftanding 

 fome mere fpeculative men have wildly imagined 

 the contrary. 



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