v.] PLANTING. 



63. You might have two rows of corn at six 

 inches apart in the row, the rows two feet apart ; 

 and your intervals of five feet. This would give 

 you one plant upon every one and tliree quarters 

 square feet of ground, which, of course, would 

 give you ten plants for every seven that you 

 would have the other way. 1 am not certain, 

 not having made the experiment, in which of 

 the two ways you would have the greatest crop 

 to the acre 5 but, there would be, the two feet 

 space between the two rows to be cultivated 

 with the hoe : there would be that much of your 

 ground which could not be deeply moved during 

 the summer, besides the additional hand labour 

 and expense. 1 myself will try this, upon a part 

 of my land, but 1 am decidedly of opinion, that 

 five feet intervals, with six inches distance in the 

 rows, is the best method for my sort of corn. 



64; With respect to small bits of ground, which 

 may be conveniently cultivated with the spade, 

 and from which the tops and blades can be car- 

 ried off with little or no inconvenience : here the 

 intervals may be three feet and the distances in 

 the row, six or seven inches j because every plant 

 can be attended to : care may be taken of every 

 one, which cannot be the case in a large field. 

 The narrow intervals, therefore, will of course be 

 adopted by all poor men in their gardens or little 

 plats of ground, which they will certainly apply 

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