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The ground having been previously plowed, was then harrowed, 

 and the rows made, and corn dropped by one operation, and by 

 one hand, with a seed sower. It was then covered with a 

 horse, by turning two light furrows upon the corn. After the . 

 corn had sprouted, and before any of it had come up, the top 

 of the ridges was raked off with a Mrden rake, which destrovcd 

 all the weeds that had started. At the first hoeing it was thin- 

 ned to from four to six inches in the row. It was hoed twice, but 

 we did not think of entering it for a premium, and kept no ac- 

 coynt of the expense of hoeing. The ears were gathered from 

 the stalks October 8th, and measured fifty-eight bushels of 

 sound corn, which we ascertained would vield twentv-nine 

 bushels of shelled corn, and four bushels of ears of hog corn. 

 The fodder is now tolerably dry, and weighs two thousand 

 ninety pounds. 



"We estimate the expense 

 of preparing the ground 

 for planting, at %1 00 



Planting, ' 75 



Baking off, 4 hours work, 50 

 Hoeing first time, one day, 1 50 

 Hoeing second time^ 2 00 



Harvesting, 2 50 



29 bushels corn, 90 cts., $26 10 

 4 bushels ears hog corn, 1 00 

 Fodder, 2,090 lbs., 4 50 



$9 25 



.$31 GO 



Carrots. 

 Hiram Fuller of Hallowcll, writes me that he obtained at the 

 mtc of nine hundred sixty-six bushels per acre, of carrots, by 

 manuring a clayey loam with the residue from his glue manufac- 

 tory. It is easy to perceive that the residuum after steaming 

 glue from pates, &c., is not only rich in fertilizing matter, but it 

 is in a condition to be very readily appropriated, by growing 

 plants. No such resources for manuring the laud should ever 

 be allowed to pass unimproved. 



