Remarks on Guinea Corn. an 
days until frost. In June collect the blades together and 
cut them all off, one or two inches above the crown of 
the plant, indeed, if the plant be cut near to the ground 
it will sprout out repeatedly but not leaf so profusely 
though come to good seed. But this hitherto only re- 
lates to fodder, and the cutter will be regulated in his 
cutting, by seeing what part the creatures refuse from 
being too hard. 
When seed is the object, then in these rows which 
are three feet asunder, the plants may be hoed off, 
leaving small clumps of six or eight stalks about four 
or five feet distant in quincunx order as it suckers 
much, it may be occasionally suckered on the common 
principle : and these plants are good fodder. 
If the seed be sowed for a crop of seed, disregarding 
use as fodder, the rows may be four or five feet apart 
and the clumps as far apart in the rows ; sowing 10 or 
12 seed, in each clump or hillock. If the soil be in 
good heart, it will probably not require a single hoeing ; 
the plants stole so much, and abounding with leaves, 
the earth is almost entirely shaded, and in the more 
advanced stage, entirely so. 
Like plants in general, it delights in a soil rich, dry 
and loose. In the West Indies it yields two crops an- 
nually—both yielding from 60 to 80 bushels of seed. 
Here* we set but one crop. In the field, the birds are 
fond of the grain ; and in the barn, the rats. It is ex- 
cellent for poultry, and where the seed is cleared from 
its husk, by beating in a mortar ; and boiled and eaten 
* In Carolina, 
