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ry day, all our small seeded crops were either totally 

 lost, or materially injured. The vegetation of the 

 Guinea grass seed was so much retarded, that until 

 some time in May, I could discover no young plants. 

 They at length made their appearance, in some parts 

 of the lot. But some seeds remained six weeks in the 

 earth, before they vegetated : and most of those gen- 

 tlemen, to whom I had given seed, supposing them to 

 have been gathered too green, appropriated their 

 grounds to other purposes, or suftered the weeds to 

 smother the young grass. 



As soon as I could designate the Guinea grass, I 

 had the ground well hoed, and where two or more 

 plants came up together, I had the supernumeraries 

 transplanted to spots where the seed had failed. When 

 the plants attained such a size as would admit of it, I 

 took them up, and dividing the roots, set them out 

 when the soil was wet, and in this way filled up the 

 vacancy in the ground I had appropriated to my ex- 

 periments. 



At Percy field, near Fort Adams, Mr. Oglesby, my 

 manager, planted about the eighth of an acre of vefy 

 fertile laiid, with plants obtained from Mr. Munson, 

 in the first and second week of May. They grew 

 without any trouble except that of cutting down the 

 first growth of weeds. On the 20th of June, he be- 

 gan to cut it for the use of the plough horses and 

 mules, and continued to supply them with as much as 



(1812.) On Uie nights of the 3id and' 4th of May the hoar fio/ 

 was so severe as to destroy ahnost all the tender ])Iants in thi" ter- 

 ritory. 



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