THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



LMay 5. 



iliaed by the English 



effect, the by my old friend the Frenchmai 

 ' his estate I of this " Chicken corn," though s 



tional interest will yield as large a returi 



I sat down down for the mere purpow 

 cry for the distressed, to invoke Rome 



study of the Jaws and science of agricult 

 purpose of derating the present degra 



pens in those praiseworthy efforts, whi< 

 may tend to re-invigorate the agrieultur 

 the subject, into the act of wielding my 

 thing more to say on the subject yet 



\ placesTand", 





FORTY-DAY MAIZE. 

 Your correspondent, " T. A." has requested i 



sent to Mr. Poynter, and asked him to do it in my: 

 The following is what' he has written ; and your re 

 may depend on his correctness, because he is a pro 



ninl expori.-need man. I take this opportunity ti 



• /. /'. < oM.it, April- 



given to'mTJJ a 'Frenchman. 



for a conscript, but having an aversioi 



if gunpowder, and no relish for honour ar 



id, where he became gardener to Bartoh 

 elebrated engraver of his day, and who \ 

 her's next door neighbour. I planted i 



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grew. I perfectly i 





nay imagine my corn had 

 I conld have. I bad no 



> always an acceptable 



proper care of my reserve stock, I by some 

 lost the seed. From that prr 

 « 18J8, I ceased to be a Maize grower. At thai 



of the « Cobbett Corn," about 8 or 9 different variety 

 of Mim. I bad about 30 perches of a lightish ric 

 soil dug. I planted the corn with a dibble, dibbling i 

 apart in the rows', and the rows'! feef k^niTnVr l?wl 

 P 1 ^ «he first week m May ; scarcely a seed miss™ 



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otfwTl h d ^ TOWS *** *° t0Hch eacl 



»tarwa«b rffitywrthH n^ThTrows^rth f col™ 

 flat hoe. The « Cobbett Com " ripened about M\ 



all my subsequent growths of it. In 

 large mass of green leaves, snekers, i 



Knjli-h or foreign. 



rfUnTnyrfSe* 



t growth of it. These 



highly manured. No 



of the south of England, would produce 50 bushels an 

 acre, and be a crop far preferable to Beans and Peas. 



weather will permit ; but I once planted some on the 

 2d of June, which succeeded as well as any I ever 



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