II.] AND SORTS OF CORN. 



had rather recently, seen an ear or two of this 

 corn in some seed drawers that I had in the 

 garden house, not being quite sure, however, that 

 they were of the true sort; and now, I, who had 

 so long turned from the subject rather with 

 indifference, cQuld not go to sleep for my doubts, 

 my hopes, and fears, about these two bits of ears 

 of corn. We had no light, or I should have got 

 up to go and hunt the boxes which I did as soon 

 as day light appeared, and there, to my great joy, 

 I found two bits of ears of corn, which from the 

 size and shape of the cobb, I knew to be of the 

 true sort. This was upon the Sth of June in the 

 morning. We rubbed the seeds from the cobbs, 

 put them into lukewarn water, and soaked 

 them until the next day, in order to hasten their 

 "Vegetation. The next morning we dug up a flat 

 piece of ground, and manured it vveW, and planted 

 the corn with great care, at just about the same 

 distances that I have planted my corn this year. 

 We had just seed enough to plant three quarters 

 of a rod of ground. The plants were up at the 

 end of about five days, the weather being very 

 warm and fine; and, as soon as they had attained 

 the proper height, they were nicely hoed, and were, 

 during the summer, cultivated with great care. 

 The crop was rather short of a bushel of shelled 

 corn ; that is to say, corn rubbed off from the 

 cobb and fit for the mill. There was some little 



