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instant I left off making- a hill around the corn, and have 

 eiuce that time left the ground among the corn as smooth 

 as possible, and the remainder of my corn that year ^vhich 

 I did not hill, was much the best and the ears the largest 



After making several experiments as to the distance that 

 the hills should be planted apart, I made one in the year 

 1836, Trhich I have made my rule always since, and which I 

 believe to be the best. The experiment was to plant the 

 rows three feet apart and the hills in the row two feet 

 apart, and not have moi*e than three plants grow in a hill j 

 thinned out at the first hoeing. I have also a variety of 

 corn apparently fixed in its character, which sometimes 

 bears my name — Brown corn — an account of which was 

 published in the Patent Office Eeport of 1853, and is in- 

 corporated in this statement. 



'' The island on which I reside is situated in about lati- 

 tude 43? 40' N., and comprises about 1,100 acres, the 

 largest portion of which is good arable land, the remainder 

 being occupied by pastures or reserved as wood-lots. The 

 soil naturally consists of a brownish yellow loam, which, 

 when well tilled, becomes warm and retentive of manures. 

 The subsoil is of a bright yellow, underlaid by a hard-pan, 

 varying in depth and thickness. A specimen taken from a 

 highly cultivated field, which had produced 130 bushels of 

 corn to the acre, as analyzed by Dr. C. T. Jackson of Bos- 

 ton, gave the following' results : 



Mechanical separation of 1,000 grains of gravel, sand, and 

 loam. 



Coarse pebbles, 90 



Fine pebbles, 2G0 



Fine loam, G50 



1,000 

 Chemical analysis of 100 grains. 



