XL] CONCLUSION. 



English hop-planters and hop-dealers do about 

 crops of hops, and who carry on a species of 

 gambling, well meriting the pretty severe anim- 

 adversions of the law ; not a roguish sort of 

 gambling like this, but, who lay trifling wagers 

 as to the positive or relative amount of theirs and 

 their neighbours* crops of corn : I have never heard 

 even these opulent amateur farmers talk about 

 any thing beyond sixty or seventy bushels to the 

 acre ; or, if I have heard of a hundred, it has 

 been of something that nobody believed in. Now, 

 my crop, if under ears and all were included, 

 even saying nothing about the dilapidations of 

 the birds, would be a hundred bushels ; and, 

 I will bet (for it is a very good way of bringing 

 the dispute to a test) a hundred pounds, that 

 I grow a hundred and five bushels to the acre 

 next year, on ten acres of land all in one piece ; 

 and that, too, in the wide distances recommended 

 in my book. I should not be afraid to bet upon 

 a hundred and fifty bushels to the acre ; but 

 upon a hundred and five, I am ready to bet with 

 any body. 



17s. Not only is mine the largest crop of 

 corn that I ever saw ; but the ears are the fuUesf 

 and the most 'perfect. The American ears are 

 very seldom, however fine they may be, filled 

 with grains up to the tip-top. There is gene- 

 rally, I say generally, a little part of the tip of 



