IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



Let any man consider, then, the vast imjDortance 

 of corn to this country, on scarcely any table in 

 which there is not, every day in the year, one or 

 more of the above named puddings, and this is a 

 fact well known to us all. At both my places, 

 Barn Elm and Kensington, I have altogether 

 fourteen servants, four of whom are of the 

 delicate sex ; there are three others of the same 

 sex ; then there are ten servants who are of the 

 more rude sex, and are no cripples at eating, and 

 four men w^ho are not servants ; so that here are, 

 reckoning myself and the other members of my 

 own family, altogether twenty- two persons. I 

 now purchase my corn at Mark Lane, my own 

 being saved for seed ; and I calculate, that, by the 

 use of corn-flour, instead of wheat-flour, I, at this 

 time, save a clear sixty pounds sterling a-year, 

 with better and more plentiful living than we 

 could have if we had not the corn-flour. It is a 

 maxim with me never to stint as to quantity;, 

 never to attempt to set a limit. It is also a 

 maxim with me, and to which 1 have invariably 

 adhered throughout the whole course of my* life, 

 never to purchase any thing but of the very best 

 quality ; be it what it niay, fuel, meat, flour, 

 bread. Food for cattle, every thing of the very 

 best quality ; and this I do upon a principle of 

 frugality and of saving in the result, and not from 

 any generosity or liberality that I set up preten- 



