XL] CONCLUSION. 



stalk of Mr. Dickerson had been^ as Is fre- 

 quently the case^ the only plant left in the hill. 

 So that, this plant had all the nourishment 

 destined for the use of the five. Well then, 

 this extraordinary growth of corn may enable 

 us to judge, when it is compared with my growth, 

 of the relative crop, that is to say, which of 

 the two countries is capable of producing most. 

 I had one plant, standing in its ordinary place, 

 with its neighbours standing in their ordinary 

 places, having no suckers coming out of it ; and 

 it had " seven full ears rank and good," such as 

 Pharaoh saw upon the stalk in his dream. 

 Some plants with suckers had as many as eleven 

 ears each 3 but this seven-eared plant had but 

 one single stalk., One ear was broken oif, by 

 mere accident ; or rather some man cropped 

 it off without perceiving what he w^as about. 

 The full and fair ears of my corn have, upon an 

 average, somewhere between two hundred and 

 seventy and three hundred grains in each. I am 

 talking of the head ears, as we do of wheat, and 

 not of the under ears ; for corn has these as 

 well as wheat. They are inferior in size, though 

 most of the grains in them are equally good in 

 quality with those of the head ears. 



176. These ears of mine, then, have upon an 

 average 285 grains, and seven of these have 

 1995 grains. But observe, tli^t the American 



