“A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow Indian corn.”

— Arthur Young

Attributed to Arthur Young in: Henry Colman (1848), The Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, from Personal Observation http://books.google.com/books?id=fAcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA300, p. 300

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