KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS. CHAP. 



any grain can bej and, upon this grain, without any 

 grinding, horses are fed, oxen are fatted, hogs are fatted, 

 and poultry made perfectly fat by eating the grain whole 

 tossed down to them in the yard. The finest turkeys in 

 the whole world are fatted in this way, without the least 

 possible trouble. Nothing can be easier to raise. The 

 corn is planted along little drills about three or four feet 

 apart, the grains at four inches apart in the drill, any 

 when during the first fortnight in May. When it is out 

 of the ground about two inches, the ground should be 

 nicely moved all over, and particularly near to the plants. 

 When the plants attain to the height of a foot, the ground 

 should be dug between them, and a little earth should be 

 put up about the stems. When the plants attain the 

 height of a foot and a half or two feet, another digging 

 should take place, and the stems of the plants should be 

 earthed up to another four or five inches : after this, you 

 have nothing to do but keep the ground clear from weeds. 

 The corn will be in bloom, and the ears will begin to 

 show themselves in the latter end of July : in the latter 

 end of August, there will be some corn fit to eat ; and, as 

 some ears will always be more backward than others, there 

 will always be some in proper order for eating till about 

 the latter end of September. Those ears which are not 

 gathered before October, will become ripe, and the grains 

 in them hard : two or three of the finest ought to be 

 saved for seed, and the rest given to poultry : about three 

 rows across one of the plats in the garden would be suf- 

 ficient for any family. 



143. CORN-SALAD. This is a little insignificant 

 annual plant that some persons use in salads. It is, 





