114- INDIAN CORN. 



the States the average is not greater, and that 

 the minimum is as low as fifteen bushels. 



In my observations on Mr Marx's farm 

 near Richmond, I have suggested probable 

 causes and remedies for this apparent defi- 

 ciency of produce in the American wheat 

 crops. The objections do not altogether ap- 

 ply to Mr SheafPs management, because with 

 him I witnessed the great rarity of a mound 

 of from 300 to 400 tons of excellent manure, 

 in itself a proof of his superior practice ; but 

 I have reason to doubt whether even he allows 

 his land a sufficiency of manure that import- 

 ant article in wheat husbandry and whether 

 also his wheat crops might not be rendered 

 more productive by an increase of the allow- 

 ance of seed. 



His crop of Indian corn was to me an object 

 of peculiar interest j planted in rows in the us- 

 ual manner, the land on which it grows has been 

 kept as clean as any garden ; it rises to the 

 height of eight or nine feet, and the hotter the 

 weather the more rapid its growth, Friend 

 Cope having informed me that he has watch- 



