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Excerpt from A Treatise on Cobbett's Corn, Containing Instructions for Propagating and Cultivating the Plant, and for Harvesting and Preserving the Crop Bution of the labours of the year. The harvest month, as it is proverbially called, is a month of bustle and of hurry indescribable: all is at stake; not a moment is to be lost; any demand for wages must be submitted to: to this succeeds a dead calm, in which there is nothing to do; wages acquired so suddenly are but too frequently as suddenly dissipated; and, after a long and indolent autumn, winter comes, and meets the labourer with not a farthing of his harvest earn ings in his pocket. Now, the Indian corn fur nishes employment until the end, and after the end of October, and well rewards the man who gives the employment. This is one of the most important considerations belonging to the subject. I shall, by and bye, have to show, when I come to the eighth chapter, where I shall speak of the various uses to which the grain and other parts Of the produce are applicable I shall then show, what a blessing this plant will be to the English labourer, and how it will and must drive the accursed soul-degrading potatoe out of that land, into which it never ought to have come: but, viewing the cultivation of this plant, merely as the means of diminishing the bustle of the one month, by spreading it over three; viewing it in this light only, the introduction of this plant must, by every sensible man, be deemed of the greatest importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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