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The third is cultivated in North America and Germany. The stalks are 
slender, and seldom rise more than four feet high. The leaves are shorter 
and narrower than either of the former; they are hollowed like the keel of 
a boat, and their tops hang down. The spikes of male flowers are short, and 
the ears of grain are seldom more than five or six inches long. This ripens 
its grain perfectly well in England, in as little time as Barley. 
There are several varieties of the two last, differing in the colour of the 
grain. The most common colour is a yellowish white; but there are some 
with deep yellow, others with purple, and some with blue grains; and when 
the different colours are planted near each other, the farina will mix, and the 
ears will have grains of several colours intermixed on the same spike; but 
when the grains of the different varieties are planted at a proper distance 
from each other, the produce will be the same with the grains which are 
sown. From long experience, says Mr. Miller, I can affirm, that these three 
are different, and do not alter by culture. 
In North America it is treated in the following manner. They first dig 
the ground well in the spring, and having made it level, they draw a line 
across the whole piece; then they raise little hills at about three or four feet 
distance, into each of which they put two or three good seeds, covering them 
about an inch thick with earth. The rows are four feet asunder, and the 
hills three or four feet distant from each other. Six quarts of seed are 
allowed to an acre, which, if the soil be good, will produce fifty bushels 
of corn. 
There is nothing more observed in the culture of this grain, but only to 
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keep it clear from weeds, by frequent hoeing the ground; and when the 
stems are advanced, to draw the earth up in a hill about each plant, which, 
if done, will greatly strengthen them, and preserve the ground about their 
roots moist for a considerable time. 
When the corn is ripe they cut off the stalks close to the ground, and 
after having gathered the spikes of grain, they spread the stalks in the sun 
to harden and dry, which they afterward use in the same manner as reeds 
in England for making fences, covering sheds, &c. for which purpose they 
are very useful to the inhabitants of warm countries; and when there is a 
scarcity of forage, they feed their cattle with them green, as fast as the corn 
is gathered off. 
The corn is ground to flour, and the poorest sort of people in America, 
