50 On Planting Corn. 
call five days work on an acre: the eighteen inch, ele- 
ven days; and the two feet corn, fifteen days on an acre. 
The two feet corn, besides exceeding in quality, has 
nearly twenty bushels more than the common planting : 
the greater expense is ten days work, or ten bushels of 
corn, by which means we make a clear saving of ten 
bushels per acre. 
In the eighteen inch planting, we make a saving of 
seven bushels over the common mode. The two feet 
planting exceeds the eighteen inch after allowing for la- 
bour, three bushels. 
In these new modes of planting by suckering your 
corn, you turn the strength of your soil from the produc- 
tion of barren stalks to the production of solid grain.: 
your lands yield greater profit: your work is brought 
into a narrow compass, and you have your other fields 
without any loss, left in a state to recruit, and be pre- 
pared for a future abundant harvest. ‘The experiment 
was made upon easy land, free from stone. I conjectur- 
ed that the advantages would be still greater upon hard 
strong land, where the common mode of cultivation is 
more expensive. 
JoserH Lymay. 
Hatfield, Nov. 1, 1796. 
