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Corn! But, then, the increased difficulty 
will be merely in proportion to the absence 
of knowledge; and, as pains are taken to 
cultivate information, so will the obstruc¬ 
tions to success disappear. 
How many times do wc notice that a 
piece of Wheat, which carries all the ap¬ 
pearance of good management through the 
Winter, falls away in Substance and Color 
in the growing months of the Spring, — 
while other, that appeared thin and scarcely 
worth letting remain, grows away to an 
abundant Crop! This is owing to the 
Plant, at that Season of the Year, throwing 
out its Fibres in search of Nourishment to 
perfect its Seed Stem, (for Moisture, Light, 
and Air, will alone produce the grassy 
matter of a Plant;) and, in proportion as 
the necessary Pabulum and good Hus¬ 
bandry have been applied,—or, on the 
