20 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 



1817. 



June 3. Landlord had just been showing 

 me some of his fine ears of Corn ; 

 and 1 took the paper out of my 

 pocket, and read the paragraph: 

 " What !" said he, " swallow a whole 

 " ear of corn at once ! No wonder 

 " that they have swallowed up poor 

 " Old John Bull's substance." After 

 a hearty laugh, we explained to 

 him, that it must have been wheat 

 or barley. Then he said, and very 

 justly, that the Lord must have been 

 a much greater fool than a hog is. 

 The plant of the Indian corn grows, 

 upon an average, to about 8 feet 

 high, and sends forth the most beau 

 tiful leaves, resembling the broad 

 leaf of the water-flag. It is planted 

 in hills or rows, so that the plough 

 can go between the standing crop. 

 Its stalks and leaves are the best of 

 fodder, if carefully stacked ; and its 

 grain is good for every thing. It is 

 eaten by man and beast in all the 

 various shapes of whole corn, meal, 

 cracked, and every other way that 

 can be imagined. It is tossed down 

 to hogs, sheep, cattle, in the whole 

 ear. The two former thresh for 



