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Excerpt from Sketches of California: An Account of the Life, Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants; Its History, Climate, Soil, Productions, &C.; Also Interesting Information in Relation to the Canchalagua, a Californian Plant of Rare Medicinal Virtues
The produce of maize, in proportion to' the seed, is perhaps more than that of? Any other grain whatever but this doubtless chie?y arises from its being always planted in drills, and I am not certain if wheat and other grains might not give equal returns if planted or dibbled in the same way. The return, from maize in good la11d.1s.o1ten as high as a hundred and fifty fold, and. Even higher, and if it is much under a hundred _it is thought. To be an inferior crop.
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