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sell for so much as they cost getting out of 

 the ground. No money, therefore, will be 

 got by that crop. I know a gentleman who, 

 from correct accounts, lost two hundred 

 and sixty dollars (which is seventy- seven 

 pounds ten shillings currency) by eleven 

 acres, short of paying for the planting and 

 taking out of the ground : they were sold in 

 Philadelphia market, and the produce had 

 been great 



I forgot to mention that I planted, in the 

 first week in May, about seventy acres of 

 Indian corn in drills, and one acre of Indian 

 corn Jn drills on the land which had borne 

 turnips the year before, and which was very 

 fine ; at different distances, from three to six 

 feet : but a better crop of Indian corn may 

 be raised by planting at six feet asunder and 

 eighteen inches in the drills, than by any 

 other mode I ever tried, if the land be rich. 

 Upon very poor land I do not doubt that 

 the hills may be superior; as by hoeing 

 and ploughing there is rather more of the 

 best earth added to the roots of the corn. 



