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sufficient for the purpose of ripening this vahiable 

 crop ; until the accident, of which I shall speak 

 more particularly in the next chapter, induced me 

 to make that trial, which, upon a scale sufficiently 

 large to obviate every doubt, has now convinced 

 me of the contrary. But, this is not of the same 

 sort as that of any of the corn that I ever saw in 

 America, or that 1 had ever seen before I saw this 

 sort. I have called it dwarf corn ; but, that word 

 does not sufficiently designate it. There are, in 

 America, two or three sorts of corn called dwarf; 

 but, they all differ greatly from this : of those 

 sorts I shall have to say more in the next chapter. 

 Arthur Young, in his *' Travels in France, 

 Spain, and Italy," describes the great and 

 numerous advantages attending the cultivating of 

 maize or Indian Corn ; and, though he takes it for 

 granted, that the corn will not ripen in England, 

 he recommends the planting of it merely for the 

 sake of its great produce of excellent fodder. If 

 Mr. Young had lived until now, he would have 

 seen, that we can have both grain and fodder. 



