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do no more , than think of it; bat in the Spring I 
refolved to make fome Experiments on the Mayze y 
or Indian Corn . In each Corner of my Garden, 
which is forty Foot in Breadth, and near eighty 
in Length, I planted a Hill of that Corn, and 
watching the Plants when they grew up to a pro- 
per Height, and were puiliing out both the Taf- 
fels above, and Ears below ; from one of thofe 
Hills,. I cut off the whole Taffels, on others I 
carefully open’d the Ends of the Ears, and from 
forrje of them l cut or pinch’d off all the Aiken 
Filaments j from others I took about half* from 
others one fourth and three fourths, &c. with 
fome Variety, noting the Heads, and the Quantity 
taken from each : Other Heads again I tied up at 
their Ends, juft before the Silk was putting out, 
with fine Muffin, but the Fuzzieft or mod Nappy 
I could find, to prevent the Paflageofth t Farina^ 
but that would obftrucrt neither Sun, Air or Rain. 
I fattened it alio fo very loofely, as not to give the 
lead Check to Vegetation. 
The Confequence of all which was this, that 
of the five or fix Ears on the firft Hill, from which 
I had taken all the Taffels, from whence proceeds 
the Farina , there was only one that had fo much 
as a fingle Grain in it, and that in about four hun- 
dred and eighty Cells, had butabout twenty or 
twenty- one Grains, the Heads, or Ears, as they 
flood on the Plant, look’d as well to the Eye as 
any other 5 they were of their proper Length, 
the Cores of their full Size, but to the Touch, 
for want of the Grain, they felt light and 
yielding. On the Core, when diverted of the 
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