II,] AND SORTS OF CORN. 



thousand, it having been hot during the whole 

 of the summer, and during the autumn into the 

 bargain. He did not press his solicitations further 

 at that time; and, as I did not appear to intend 

 to make use of the seed which he had saved, he, 

 reserving a few ears, which he gave to me, sent 

 off the remainder to our friend Mr. Walker, of 

 Worth, in Sussex. 



29. In the month of June, 1827> my son and 

 I slept one night in the same room in the garden 

 house at Barn-Elm , The night was very hot, and 

 neither his bed nor mine was cool enough to permit 

 us to get to sleep, in a case like which people 

 generally get to talking ; and I, in a mood, half 

 between restlessness and laziness, asked him,, 

 whether Mr. Walker had planted his corn. 

 He said he had ; and that led him oif into a 

 train of arguing, the object of which was to 

 maintain his former opinion relative to the great 

 benefits that would attend the cultivation of this 

 Crop. He entered into a calculation of the 

 distances, the space of ground required by each 

 plant, the number of plants upon an acre, the 

 number of ears upon a plant, the quantity of 

 seed upon an ear, ending in a statement of the 

 amount of the crop per acre. He then dwelt 

 upon the quantity and value of the fodder, upon 

 the facility of cultivation, upon the small quantity 

 of seed required for an acre 3 and, finally, upon 



