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Mr. Young, in his travels in France, in 1787, 

 1788, and 1789, in which time he vifited every in- 

 terefting part of the kingdom, for the purpofe of ob- 

 ferving the ftate of its agriculture, mentions the cul- 

 tivation of Indian corn (there called maize) in its 

 fouthern provinces. " Maize (fays he) is an object 

 of much greater confequence than mulberries.* 

 When I give the courfes of French crops, it will be 

 found, that the only good husbandry in the kingdom 

 (fome fmall and very rich diftrids excepted) arifes 

 from the pojfejfion and management of this plant. Where 

 there is no maize, there are fallows [naked fallows ;] 

 and where there are fallows, the people ftarve.'* Vol- 

 ume ii. page 41. Again, in page 140, he fays — 

 *' The line of maize may be faid to be the divifion 

 between the good hufbandry of the fouth, and the 

 bad hufbandry of the north, of the kingdom. Till 

 you meet with maize, very rich foils are fallowed, 

 but never after. Perhaps it is the moft important plant 

 that can be introduced into the agriculture of any country 

 whofe climate will fuit /V.'*t — " A country whofe foil 

 and climate admit the courfe of ift maize, 2d wheat, 

 is under a cultivation, that, perhaps, yields moft food 

 for man and beaft, that is pofEble to be drawn from 

 the land." — In the fame page, Mr. Young fays, that 

 in the fouth of France, in Spain, in Italy, the cattle 

 are in high order ; which he afcribes to the food af- 

 forded by Indian corn ; as it furnilhes " a rich mea- 

 dow a confiderable part of the fummer ; the leaves 

 being regularly ftripped for oxen, affording a fuccu- 

 lent and moft fattening food — in fituations that feem 



* Mulberry trees are grown for the feeding of sUk-worms. 

 t Although the climate of England is milder than our own, the heat of 

 • summer is insufficient to ripen Indian corn. 



