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derable if the observations on this plant in your En- 

 cyclopaedia are correct: the enclosed extract of a letter 

 from Dr. C. Drayton Junr. accompanying the seed will 

 cast a very considerable light on the subject which, 

 after read please return. If 1 am not greatly mistaken, 

 Guinea corn will produce more green fodder than any 

 other annual plant that has been used for that purpose, 

 either here or in England; and under this conviction I 

 intend the ensuing spring, to commence with cutting 

 for my cattle, half or perhaps the whole field designed 

 for Indian corn the spring following, and that the 

 plough and harrow shall immediately follow the scythe, 

 till sown broadcast with Guinea corn, by which means 

 I expect to obtain a large supply of green food coming 

 in immediately after first crop grass is done, and vastly 

 superior to the best second crop grass, with no other 

 expense than seed and harrowing, and the sod will be 

 better rotted than by fall ploughing. I regret that I 

 did not try whether Indian corn would not bear re^ 

 peated cuttings if commenced before its disposition to 

 sucker, ceased. If you have never examined the broom 

 or Guinea corn in the different stages of their growth, 

 and their wonderful and profuse suckering after cut- 

 ting with the scythe, you will I make no doubt be 

 highly gratified in viewing my little patches, more es- 

 pecially as you design to soil cattle.-— I am generally 

 at home every day after 12 o'clock, and on Sunday al- 



