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together, and if it suits your entire convenience shall 
be happy to see you, and am your 
Respectful humble servant, 
Joun Lorarn. 
Dr. James MEASE. 
September 12th, 1810. 
N. B. The first cut of the Guinea corn was from 
three to two and a half feet high, the second from two 
to two and a half feet. 
See 
Remarks on the Culture of the Guinea Corn or Holcus 
Spicatus, referred to in the foregoing paper. 
This plant being useful for fodder as well-as grain ; 
some manage it thus : 
Oats, they sow the first week in November in drills 
one foot apart. In moderate winters it is fit to be used 
__ as green fodder by the first week in February, at that 
_ time the leaves when extended may be 18 or 20 inches 
long from the earth, and then cut six or eight inches 
from the top. This may be repeated several times, and 
cut within eight or ten inches of the earth. 
Guinea corn.—About the middle of March, remove 
entirely every other row of the oats, and sow the 
Guinea corn in drills very thin, 10 or 12 grains in the. 
space of a foot. It being a tender plant, not bearing 
frost, it is thus sheltered by the oats.—In six weeks 
it is fit to cut, about six or eight inches from the top 
for fodder; then remove the oats wholly. Thus from 
the beginning of May, it may be cut every 12 or 14 
