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St planting; the mod. of what grew were planted 

 the 19th and 20th of that month. They arc 

 planted at nine inches in the row, and the rows at 

 pine inches; this makes eighty-one fquare inches 

 per plant; which would be 77440 plants per acre. 

 The expence was nearly two pounds five {hillings 

 for taking, up the plants, and planting them; but 

 as it was a new thing, it was not fo quickly done : 

 if the people were accuftomed to do it, I fuppofe 

 it might be done for half the expence. The man- 

 ner of doing it was as follows: 



A man with a ^ibble, having five points of three 

 inches long, walked backwards, and put them in 

 with his foot in the manner a man digs with a 

 fpade;-the dibble had a ftrong head, and a handle 

 like a fpade, into which thefe five points were 

 fixed. A boy brought a balket full of plants from 

 the man who dug them up, and having feparated 

 the fets, dipped the bafket in a tub of water ; a 

 l;)oy or woman put down a plant at every hole, and 

 a man followed, planted them in the hole, and put 

 the earth about them with a common dibble as a 

 gardener does ; they omitted to number the grains 

 in the ear. The number of ears per plant were 

 reckoned at four different places of the ridge, and 

 the average was fixteen ears per plant ; but there 

 were a great many of the plants dead, and many 



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