336 On Corn and Potatoes. 
planting the corn one foot wider asunder without dimi- 
nishing the number of plants per acre, as much larger 
scope will be provided for their roots with the advan- 
tage of more sun and air. 
The corn and potatoe grounds are now in wheat, 
sown with rather more than two bushels per acre, after 
one ploughing commenced in the middle of the potatoe 
rows (rendered flat by the cleaning harrow) and ending 
in the middle of the corn ridges on each side, forming 
beds of cleven feet each from the middle of the water 
furrows. The execution was easy, and when finished, 
equal in appearance to any field I have ever seen; it 
will be sown with grass seeds in the spring, to be mown 
five years: one exhausting crop immediately following 
another of the same kind, seems to require an apology 
or explanation, and not knowing which would suit best, 
| what is offered will be applicable to either; manuring 
well for corn has so far secured mea good crop and left 
the ground clean and rich enough for wheat or barley, 
of which I have had superior crops free from weeds, and 
consequently easier and safer harvested, and the land 
left not too much exhausted for grass seeds. This short 
round I conceive produces more grain than a longer 
one would do on a larger breadth of ploughed ground, 
and leaves more land for grass, which, while it is adding 
to the revenue of the farm, is daily accumulating riches 
for future grain crops. 
Yours, &c. 
Joun Loratn. 
N. B. Perhaps it will not be known to all who may 
wish to plant potatoes among corn, that the vines of the 
