204 Mixed Culture of Corn and Potatoes. 
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cubical feet measured in the field, after being settled by 
the driving one half applied to the corn, the other half to 
potatoes; to avoid poaching the potatoe rows, the dung 
assigned them was hauled and dropped on the corn rows, 
and from thence spread on the potatoes, which were re- 
gularly placed in hoies sunk by an indenting roller, one 
and three quarter inches below the surface, and covered 
by the plough securing a depth of loose soil underneath 
as well as the light covering of dung and soil above ; 
after this the corn rows were well pulverized with a 
hoe harrow, when the dung was hauled and spread, they 
were ridged up and the sides of the ridges harrowed, and 
the tops flattened with a harrow without tines the holes 
made with an indenting roller two and a half inches 
deep, in which the corn was planted and covered with 
hand hoes; the potatoes are generally up with a rich 
broad leaf and strong stem, most of them harrowed with 
a folding harrow, an excellent tool, cleaning and pulve- 
rising the soil quite up to the stems of the plants; the 
I wait the result of such bold and heavy dunging on wheat. 
It is far beyond any thing I have known. I never could get 
wheat to stand till it came to the sickle, or with heads filled, 
or clear from smut or other diseases, after half the quantity 
of dung mentioned by Mr. Larazn was applied. But as my 
manure (dung) is always moderately fermented and putrefied, 
I cannot calculate what is the proportion of strength, or quan- 
tity, compared to Mr. Lorain’s muck; as I suppose it to bes 
If ever fresh dung, applied in any thing like such quan- 
tities, succeeds, with a wheat crop; it must be after summer 
crops have subdued its bad qualities, and effects. 
R. P. 
