Mixed Culture of Potatoes and Corn. 203. 
in each cluster. Between the cornridges are planted on 
beds five and a half feet wide, two double rows of pota- 
toes, vacancy between them two feet two inches, the 
double rows eight inches a part, straight and triangular 
like the corn; this leaves ten feet four inches between 
the double rows of corn for sun and air. I have never 
known a very large crop of corn without a great many 
plants, and if those can be better arranged with valuable 
crops of other kinds growing on the same ground, it 
will be an object, and it is sirikingly obvious that the 
outside plants of a field are much the best, when not 
incommoded by fencing &c. Those grounds were 
ploughed in one-bout ridges in the fall, twice ploughed 
and well harrowed in the spring, manured at the rate 
of 64 loads* of farm yard dung per acre, each load 32 
* Ihave frequently planted Indian corn in single rows 
eight feet asunder, and dropped single corns, two feet distant 
from each other in the rows ; so as to stand in single plants. 
This mode was suggested to me by General’ Washington, 
who told me he had great success in it. When the corn was 
ridged, potatoes were planted in the cleaning out furrows ; 
which were filled with rotted dung; and closed by two iur- 
rows backed over the potatoes by the plough. I have had 
repeatedly 40 to 50 bushels of shelled corn, and 100 to 150 
bushels of potatoes, to the acre. The roots of the corn ran 
into the dung, and received every benefit. I never had a 
nubbin ; as the stalks in general had each no less than three, 
and the most four, pertect and large ears. In weight the crop 
always exceeded the best corn cultivated in the common way; 
whatever number of bushels there might be. The culture 
must be clean, and the stirrings frequent. 
