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from three thousand to three thousand two 

 hundred pounds weight of wheat, the acre 

 being about one and a quarter English. The 

 average produce here, as at Buenos Ayres, is 

 three or four times as much as that of France 

 and Northern countries. He observes that 

 the produce of grain augments sensibly from 

 high latitudes towards the equator with the 

 mean temperature of the climate, in com- 

 paring spots of different elevations. 



The inhabitants of the New World now 

 not only grow an ample quantity for the 

 supply of that quarter of the globe, but are 

 always ready to pour their surplus into every 

 European kingdom where scarcity requires 

 it to be imported. 



ON THE PRODUCE OF CORN. 



M. Buchoz says in his fifth letter on vege- 

 tables, that he has seen in Castlenaudary in 

 Languedoc, a root composed of one hundred 

 and seventeen stalks of corn : it appeared to 

 be of the species Triticum aristis longioribus, 

 spica alba ; the stalks were about five feet in 

 height, and larger than the common wheat, 

 each ear containing sixty grains, making the 

 produce of this single root 7020 grains. 



"We have seen" says Valmont Bomare, "in 

 a small spot of ground in the Faubourg St. 



