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say that I took the rod in what I deemed the best 

 part of the field, I do not mean that that part was 

 by any means singularly good. About eight acres 

 of the field were pretty much upon a level in 

 point of crop ; and I took no pains to select a 

 simjidarly good sjmt. 



165. If 1 were to include the nubbings, at a 

 pint of good grain to a rod, here would be two 

 and a half bushels more ; but, though these 

 nubhings of my whole field would more than fat- 

 ten six large hogs, 1 do not reckon them at any 

 thing. I founded my estimate on an experiment, 

 on a small scale, that I made last year, when, at 

 the same distances, 1 had a much larger crop ; 

 and, though I took into my calculation, that, in 

 that experiment, ?zo^ a single jjlant missed ; yet, 

 until I came to the actual gathering, the other 

 day, I found that I had not made sufficient allow- 

 ance for gaps. The fact is, that, when I said a 

 Jumdred bushels, I expected much more; but, when 

 I came to a minute examination as to the num- 

 ber of gaps (caused by the birds, as formerly 

 mentioned), I was not surprised at my miscalcu- 

 lation. 



166. However, here, with all the defects (and 

 they were many and great) in the tillage and 

 management^ is a most valuable crop. Very bad 

 and stale samples of corn now sell at Mark-lane 

 for 45s. the quarter. So that the head grain of 



