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FROM THE HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE. 
On planting Corn. By Joseph Lyman. 
Referred to, page 46 of Memoirs. 
Mr. Butler, 
Having heard of the advantages to be derived 
from planting and cultivating Indian corn in a manner 
different from the one commonly practised, I determin- 
ed, for my own satisfaction to make the experiment. I 
chose a field which the year before was in grass, and 
was turned up and cultivated without any manure for 
raising potatoes. When these were gathered, and the 
vines cleared off, the ground was ploughed. Last spring 
I ordered 45 sack loads of manure, as are contained in 
the body of a cart, to be carried on. The manure was 
composted, made chiefly from potatoe tops, corn stalks, 
and other vegetables; and might perhaps be nearly 
equal to 30 loads of common barn yard manure. When 
spread equally over the field, it was ploughed again, and 
fitted by the seed harrow for planting. I then divided 
the field into three equal parts. One third was planted 
in hills two feet distant each way, three grains in a hill. 
One third was planted at the common distance of three 
and a half feet between the hills, three grains in a hill. 
‘The other third was planted as our farmers usually plant, 
three and a half feet between the rows and six feet be- 
tween the hills, about five or six grains in a hill. The 
seed was poor, so that more than one in three grains 
failed. My corn came up very unevenly, some hills hav- 
