THE FARMER'S MANUAL. tVI 



Watch your corn in your corn-lofts, turn it often, 

 that it may dry even, and not mould, especially if the 

 weather is warm and rainy ; bin up your first corn in 

 narrow bins, as fast as it will answer with safety, to 

 give room for your late husking ; this valuable crop 

 requires nice attention; select the fairest and ripest 

 ears, as you are husking, for year seed-corn, particu- 

 larly those with the smallest cob .and host filled out 

 at the ends. Now is the/tirrje Urimpi'c^ e your ftext 

 crop. By pure seed, and by selecting the earliest, or 

 the ripest, you may bring forward your after crops 

 10, 15, or 20 days; this will secure your Indian-corn 

 against early frosts, and ought not to be neglected; 

 or will enable you to cut up by the bottoms as before 

 observed, 10, 15, or 20 days earlier, and thus im- 

 prove your late sowing*. 



It is of the highest advantage to the farmer, not 

 only to know how to cultivate in the best manner, 

 each particular crop separately, but how to combine 

 this cultivation with the improvement of other crops, 

 so as to be able to make the greatest advantage from 

 the seasons of seed-time and harvest. 



The same is as true with the seed of your potatoes, 

 and all other crops, as of your Indian-corn, and may 

 as easily be attended to ? and improved, and to as 

 good advantage. 



Get your flax all in from rotting, in the course of 

 this month, if possible, and house it snug and dry; 

 secure your hemp as fast as it will answer, before 

 November; the season becomes critical for such 

 crops* Finish making and marketing your cider, and 

 place such casks as you may reserve for domestic 



* This improvement may be extended still further ; yo u may se- 

 lect your seed-corn fivm your field, taking the ripest ears, at differ- 

 ent stages of your corn, (beginning early in September,) and from 

 the most thrifty stalks ; this will bring forward your next crop ; but 

 if you select your seed from such stalks as produce two or more ear?, 

 you may, by pursuing this practice, double, or treble your quantity 

 of corn upon 'the same grounds, with the same tillage, 

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