On Planting Corn. Ag 
Sixty rods planted at the usual distance of rows and 
18 inches between the hills, yielded thirty-six bushels 
and twenty-seven quarts, which is 98 bushels and one 
peck to the acre. 
Sixty rods planted in the common mode yielded thir- 
ty-two bushels, which is eighty-five bushels and one- 
third per acre. 
The whole field yilaea 108 bushels and one peck 
nearly, which is, upon an average, 96 bushels and one 
peck per acre. 
The quality of the corn in the two first modes of 
planting was nearly similar. In both instances they clear- 
ly excelled the corn planted in the common mode. In 
this statement I make no account of the soft and poor 
corn, which upon the whole field amounted to six or 
eight bushels of ears. Every farmer for himself, will 
estimate the shrinkage between harvest and market sea- 
son. This will not alter the proportion of each piece of 
ground. I am persuaded that the lucrative mode of 
planting is to plant three grains, and if they come up 
well, to pluck up the poorest stalk after the first hoeing, 
leaving two for growth. Then you may expect, if the 
land be prepared, to have two full ears upon each stalk. 
Jt will be inquired, what is the proportion of labour 
upon each mode of cultivating? Here I cannot be so 
exact as I have been in my other calculations. Yet I was 
not inattentive to this part of the experiment, I found 
little difference in any part of the labour, excepting in 
planting, ashing, hoeing and suckering. I think the fol- 
lowing estimate cannot be far out of the way. The com- 
mon mode of planting, until we finish hoeing, I should 
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