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grows, upon an average, to about eight 

 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 stack- 

 ed ; 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 themselves, and 

 the latter eat Cob and all. It is eaten, 

 and is a very delicious thing, in its half- 

 ripe, or milky state : and these were the 

 *' ears of corn,'''' which the Pharisees 

 complained of the Disciples for plucking 

 off to eat on the Sabbath Day ; for, how 

 were they to eat wheat earsy unless after 

 the manner of the " Noble Lord" above 

 mentioned ? Besides, the Indian Corn is 

 a native of Palestine. The French, who 

 doubtless, brought it originally from the 

 Levant, call it Turkish Corn. Thre Lo- 

 custs, that John the Baptist lived on, 

 were not (as I used to wonder at whea 

 a boy) the noxious vermin that devoured 

 the land of Egypt ; but, the bean, which 

 comes in the long pods borne by the 

 three-thorned Locust tree, and of which 

 I have an abundance here. The wild- 

 honey was the honey of wild bees ; and 

 the hollow trees here contain swarms of 

 them. The trees are cut, sometimes, 

 in winter, and the part containing the 

 swarm, brought and placed near the house-.. 

 1 saw this lately in Pennsylvania. 



