On Corn. A7 
The year succeeding my crop of Indian corn, I tilled 
the field I believe without any manure, and sowed it 
with barley and clover seed. The product was very 
great. A gentleman who had been an agriculturalist in 
Great Britain, viewed the barley when it had just head- 
ed, and told me that he had seen no field of barley in 
England superior to it. The crop by its own weight, 
and a heavy rain, fell, and by being badly lodged, was 
diminished, yet it was very considerable. I did not mea- 
sure it, but it was I believe about 40 bushels per acre. 
The ground has been in grass ever since. 
This same year 1797, I planted another field with 
Indian corn in my second method, viz. in rows of cus- 
tomary width, three or four feet apart, and in hills two 
corns in a hill, about eighteen inches apart. 
This was to reduce the labour by the assistance of 
the corn harrow. This field was suckered three times 
as in the preceding year. But the land itself was not so 
good as the other field, nor had it been so richly manur- 
ed. However, allowing for these disadvantages, the 
produce was, I believe as great as in the preceding year. 
But while the stalk was in full size, and in a full state 
about the time of setting for ears, a heavy tempest pros- 
trated the whole, as it did other fields planted in the 
usual way. And although the crop was valuable, and 
more than I had expected, yet it by no means equalled the 
product of the former year. Yet I should say, that as 
far as the crops progressed, without any uncommon 
interruption, it was a good voucher for that particular 
method of cultivating Indian corn. In the mode of cul- 
tivating, especially my first mode of planting in squares 
of two feet; creeping under the plants on the ground, 
