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crop, by being so late with it; for it did 

 not appear that there had been a space of 

 more than six days from the breaking up of 

 the frost to the time when I was with him. 

 But I found that to be the case : for the 

 hot weather comes on so quickly, that, if 

 the spring grain do not get fairly out before 

 the heat sets in, it will come to no good ; 

 and, at the best, the produce will be small ; 

 so that the cultivation of a farm in America 

 is much more expensive than in England : 

 and a man must have great force to do the 

 business in so short a time. The case is the 

 same with the harvest : for, when the grain 

 begins to ripen, the sun is so intensely hot 

 and the winds so much higher than gene- 

 rally in England, that, if it was not expe- 

 ditiously harvested, they would shake it all 

 out : and if a farmer has not people under 

 his own immediate command to reap his 

 harvest, he would be liable to lose some 

 part of the crop ; it not being possible to 

 find men whom he can hire to do it. This 

 is one cause why the American flour is 



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