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The TaluG of the Labor employed in the cultivation, in- 

 cluding the dra^ving of the manure, at 75 cents per day, 

 ■was $37; leaving a net income of about $100 per acre for 

 Uie use of the land and the manure. 



There are several things connected Tvith the above-named 

 experiment which it ^vould seem necessary to explain; and 

 these are, the mode of selecting the seed for planting, and 

 the close proximity of the hills. It had been my rule, for 

 a succession of vears, to select well-filled ears of the "Kinsc 

 Philip," or Northern eight-rowed yellow corn, with cobs 

 having small butt-ends, of good length as well as uniform 

 size ; the second ripe in the field, and taken from stalks 

 bearing, more than two ears to each. The result has been, 

 I have produced a variety of corn, apparently fixed in its 

 character, which sometimes bears my name, having large 

 kernels and a small cob, varying from ten to thirteen inches 

 in length. The largest crop I ever raised was 136 bushels 

 to the acre, weighing in the ear 9,520 pounds, or seventy 

 pounds to the bushel, and fifty-nine pounds per bushel when 

 dried and shelled. 



Those who have been accustomed to plant their corn in 

 hills from four to five feet apart, may be struck with the 

 closeness of my planting, which is only three by two feet. 

 From the comparatively dwarfish growth of my corn, I was 

 induced some years since to plant a field at various dis- 

 tances apart ; and the result of my experiment was, that I 

 obtained the greatest yield by the mode I now adopt." 



I have given the date of some of my most important im- 

 provements, (which many have been induced to follow,) be- 

 cause I think that they originated with me, by which I have 

 increased my corn crops, and perhaps thousands of others 

 have been benefited thereby. 



About one-half of my corn the past season was planted 

 on ground that potatoes grew on the year before ; the other ' 

 half on land newly broken up, the whole well manured and 

 plowed in. That part where the potatoes were raised the 



