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three feet by three and one-half feet apart, with the seed known as 

 the Button corn. Not having seed enough to plant my whole field, 

 I procured a variety called King Philip, and planted the remainder. 

 A part of the ground planted to the King Philip was not so well 

 manured as the other portion of the field, yet I became satisfied that 

 the Button corn is preferable to the King Philip, being earlier, and 

 giving a larger crop with the same cultivation. 



I gathered from the ground planted mostly with the Button, two 

 hundred thirty-five bushels of eai's. The corn was very sound and 

 ripe by the middle of September. I have kept no exact account of 

 expense of cultivation, but am satisfied corn can be profitably raised 

 on plains. 



Yours, respectfully, 



F. Beach. 



