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there is any applied, is closely covered by 

 the earth gathered to form the hill : the 

 depth of soil is a great advantage. I can- 

 not point out any crop that may be raised 

 to so much advantage, with so little dung, 

 the acre of land only taking twelve 

 hundred shovelfuls to raise that crop ; 

 but then the reader will observe there is a 

 very great disadvantage in dunging land in 

 that way the grain sown afterwards will 

 grow in bunches. Where the land is fer- 

 tile enough to plant corn in drills, it is 

 preferable, if wheat, rye, or oats, are intend- 

 ed to be sown after ; as the ridges are all 

 six feet wide by that process : but there are 

 thousands of acres in America that will 

 bear no other crop but Indian corn, andare 

 left in this state in some places to remain 

 for ever, and are worth little or nothing. 



Among the many reasons to be given 

 why Indian corn is generally used in Ame- 

 rica, the one is, thousands of acres will pro- 

 duce nothing besides that plant that they 

 can make bread with ; and were the inha- 



