IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



corn. I remember that, under that day of the 

 month in which I mentioned, in my " Year's 

 Residence/' that we had begun upon our green 

 ears, I said, " We shan't starve now." I have 

 mentioned before that I had but five rods of ground 

 planted with corn, and I know that seven of us, 

 six men and a woman, had no other bread for 

 six weeks ; and no other meat than " prime, 

 poi'k ;" and no other victuals besides a thumping 

 apple pudding every day. Think of seven per- 

 sons, getting their bread for six weeks from five 

 rods of ground ; and not one of the seven who 

 had not full as good an appetite as falls to the 

 lot of the generality of men. The plat was, in- 

 deed, extraordinarily productive; and I think it 

 was equal to fifteen rods of the general crops in 

 the fields. But, it was what any man may have 

 over one whole field, and it was no more than 

 what every labouring man may have in his garden 

 every year of his life, if he have a garden contain- 

 ing five or six rods of ground. The ears ripen 

 by degrees. There are always some much 

 earlier than the rest : there are ears to be found 

 in a milky state during a space of six weeks, or 

 thereabouts. They grow, indeed, rather harder 

 towards the latter end of the six weeks; but 

 hungry people like them the better for this, as 

 they have more substance in them, and approach 

 nearer to meal and bread. Any thing oi grinders 



