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SECTION XXXI. 



Calculations of the greatest Produce from an 

 Acre of Indian Corn ; proving the State- 

 ments publisJied by J\lr, Cooper, Air. Imli)^ 

 and Others, to he erroneous. Anecdote of an 

 Irish Doctor, 



Indian corn is said to produce one hun- 

 dred bushels per acre in the back countries : 

 but this assertion is false. Indian corn is 

 indeed the most useful crop in America, 

 although not said to be beneficial ; neither 

 is it : for there can only be one thousand 

 hills on an acre, with four plants to one hill; 

 and supposing it a thing possible for every 

 plant to have two ears, and every ear to 

 have six hundred corns, that would be 

 four thousand eight hundred corns on each 

 hill ; which would be four millions eight 

 hundred thousand on an acre. Now I 

 have accurately counted a bushel of Indian 

 corn, and find it to contain eighty-three 



