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were close set to the ear: indeed the difference was so 
manifest at the time this row was cut off, that it alone 
convinced me, that necessity had urged a measure ex- 
tensively detrimental to the crop, and this in direct op- 
position to former practice founded on attentive obser- 
vation, that fodder was better saved with one half the 
expense by cutting off than by topping and stripping 
the corn, while the ears appeared to derive considerable 
advantage from the plants remaining entire. ) 
The potatoes were once earthed up with the plough, 
after which the weeds likely to out top them were re- 
moved by the hand, and they would have been luxuriant 
had it been sufficiently considered that nature designed 
them to grow under the ground, for the high planting 
and dry weather while they were fruiting reduced their 
usual size considerably. 
The ground where these crops grew measured 13 
acres, 24 3-4 perches exactly : one half appropriated. to 
the corn and the other half to the potatoes. 
Produce 817 bushels of shelled corn, and 1730 bush- : 
els of potatoes. 
This forms an average of 263 bushels of potatoes, and 
124 bushels of shelled corn per acre, if I may be per- 
mitted to assign to each the ground they occupied. 
It may appear strange that after growing such a crop 
of corn, the details of the injuries it sustained should be 
so lengthy, but it should be remembered that it was an 
experiment projected on an opinion, that close planting 
on well manured ridges, sufficiently distant from each 
other to give full scope for sun and air, would produce 
as much corn on each acre and save half the land for 
other crops, as could be produced if the whole ground 
