CHAPTER X. 



Amount and value of a Corn-crop, comparted with 

 those of other croj^s, 



163. I have little more to do, in stating the 

 amount of my crop of this year, than to repeat 

 here what I puhlished a few days ago (it is 

 now Nov. 20), relative to the same matter, and 

 which was, in substance, this : With regard to 

 the amount of the crop ; it would be quite impossi- 

 ble, without very extraordinary means, to ascer- 

 tain the amount of the whole of the crop, sooner 

 than, about the middle or end of January; for, first, 

 about the third part of the crop is yet standing in 

 the field. Last Thursday (I3th November), it 

 was much more than half standing in the field ; 

 but, on that fine afternoon, we reduced the stand- 

 ing crop to one-third, or thereabouts. Not the 

 smallest harm does it take all this time, but be- 

 comes harder and harder. The wet does it no 

 harm ; for the moment the rain ceases and the 

 wind comes, however little the latter may be, it is 

 dry again. When I say that we have gathered 

 in two third parts of the crop, I by no means say, 

 that we have husked so much, for we have not 



