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who published these statements of one 

 hundred bushels of Indian corn, forty 

 bushels of wheat, forty bushels of barley, 

 is without either knowledge or calculation, 

 which I know to be the case. But all cal- 

 culation overruns produce, in a general 

 way ; and all crops in America are more 

 liable to misfortune than the crops in Eng- 

 land, for many reasons : the shortness of 

 the season to sow the spring crop ; the little 

 time it remains on the land, only from May 

 to the latter end of June, to grow and 

 ripen ; and in wheat, the Hessian fly, which 

 often totally destroys the crop; the rust and 

 scab, so as to prevent any produce at all, in 

 Indian corn. There is a worm which de- 

 stroys the seed ; and the blackbirds often 

 peck it out of the ground ; which is soon 

 effected, the grains being so few in number 

 on each hill. I have heard old corn grow- 

 ers say, that they sometimes have to plant 

 three times in a season. When I saw the 

 fine Indian corn at Mr. Lloyd's, he said 

 there was ia some places a gr^at deal de- 



