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the New York Evening Post, of some day in 

 September last, aiid extracted by the New 

 York Evening Post, from a paper called The 

 Winchester Herald, dated on the 26th of 

 August, 1828, The extract is in the following 

 words : 



174. " Extraordinary growth of Corn. — 

 It has been generally remarked, that corn in our 

 county the present season promises unusually 

 well ; and if there be many instances of the 

 kind we are about to relate, we shall most 

 readily adopt the conclusion. Last week a 

 farmer called upon us to state, that he had, 

 with some others, taken from a single stalk of 

 corn on the farm of Mr. A. Dickerson, in Bed- 

 ford, seven ears containing together 2,077 grains 

 of corn ! This exceeds all former product of 

 this valuable article we have ever known.'* 



175. Now this is a very striking fact. You 

 will recollect that the x^merican corn is planted 

 in hills four feet apart each way ; and that they 

 never put more than four or five plants in a hill. 

 Suppose it to be five, which is very seldom the 

 case : then, you will find upon calculation 

 that here are not above fifteen thousand plants 

 upon an acre, whereas, at my distances of this 

 year, rows three feet apart, and the plants eight 

 inches apart in the row, there stand 21,760 

 plants. Then, in all probability, this single 



