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together, and if it suits your entire convenience shall 

 be happy to see you, and am your 



Respectful humble servant, 



John Lorain. 

 Dr. James Mease. 

 September I2th, 1810. 



N. B. The first cut of the Guinea corn was from 

 three to two and a half feet high, the second from two 

 to two and a half feet. 



Remarks on the Culture of the Guinea Corn or Holcus 

 Spicatusj referred to in the foregoing paper. 



This plant being useful for fodder as well as grain ; 

 some manage it thus : 



Oats, they sow the first week in November in drills 

 one foot apart. In moderate winters it is fit to be used 

 as green fodder by the first week in February, at that 

 time the leaves when extended may be 18 or 20 inches 

 long from the eanh, and then cut six or eight inches 

 from the top. This may be repeated several times, and 

 cut within eight or ten inches of the earth. 



Guinea corn. — About the middle of March, remove 

 entirely every other row of the oats, and sow the 

 Guinea corn in drills very thin, 10 or 12 grains in the 

 space of a foot. It being a tender plant, not bearing 

 frost, it is thus sheltered by the oats. — In six weeks 

 it is fit to cut, about six or eight inches from the top 

 for fodder; then remove the oats wholly. Thus from 

 the beginning of May, it may be cut every 12 or 14 



