X.] VALUE OF CROP. 



would have been the case this very year, if corn 

 had been generally cultivated in England. Nay, 

 such, TO ME, is the case now. I need care little 

 about the high price of wheat ; I use very little, 

 comparatively ; if I had rye, I would use no wheat 

 in the farm-house ; but, as it is, I have corn, and I 

 care little about the price of wheat ; and, if the 

 nse of corn were now generally known, it would 

 be brought from abroad in such quantities as to 

 lower the price of the loaf from thirteen pence 

 to about seven pence. 



168. The wheat crops are frequently injured, 

 and greatly diminished in their amount, by the 

 wire- worm, the slug, or the floods ; and wheat 

 fields are, on account of these injuries, often 

 ploughed up, and sowed with barley, or oats, or 

 kept for turnips. Here is so much bread lost ; 

 but if corn came to supply the place of ploughed- 

 up wheat, all would be well again ; the quantity 

 of bread would suffer no diminution. Corn is 

 subject to no smut; to no blight; no mildew ; 

 and never suffers, as wheat does, from too muck 

 richness in the ground. Wheat will not stand 

 this excess of richness ; it will run all to blade ; 

 it will fall down 3 it must be ^^ flagged,'' or it 

 will bear no grain. This is never the case with 

 corn, which will bear any richness of land. 



169. Then, again, the quantity of seed 

 is so small in the case of corn, that it really 



