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deep; both of these processes being lengthwise of the furrow; 

 ( e,) spread compost, or well decayed dung, and harrow it in 

 again. If corn is to be planted on stubble, one plowing, and a 

 thorough harrowing, with the same application of manure, is 

 all that is requisite. 



204. Corn is planted, (a,) by hand with a hoe, or (b,) by a 

 drill, either (c,) in hills, or (d,) rows ; and these latter either 

 (ej equal or (fj alternate. If by hand, the lines are laid out 

 by (y,) a light plow drawing a shallow furrow both ways across 

 the field, so as to divide it into squares, at the proper distance, 

 or (k,) by a corn mar Jeer, a coarse implement made somewhat 

 similar to the form of a hay rake, with the teeth or pins at the 

 distance apart proper for the corn ; the whole being drawn by 

 a horse ; ft) the drill will plant either in hills or rows. The 

 usual distance apart for hills is three to five feet each way, ac 

 cording to the size of the corn ; for rows three to four feet, and 

 the plants nine to twelve inches apart in the row. 



The amount per acre of the crop depends much on the mode of plant 

 ing. In a favorable soil it rarely happens that each original stalk does 

 cot produce one ear; allowing these ears to produce in shelled corn ono 

 gill each, the amount produced per acre by different methods of plant 

 ing will be as follows, four stalks being allowed to each hill when 

 planted in that form : 



One acre in hills 4 feet apart, gives 2,722 hills or 10,885 stalks. 

 3 &quot; 4,840 &quot; 19,360 



3 ft. by 2&amp;gt; ft- &quot; 5,808 &quot; &quot; 82,232 &quot; 



&quot; in drills 3 ft. and 6 inches for plants, 29,040 &quot; 

 &quot; &quot; in double drills thus : 



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6 inches apart, the plants 9 inches in the rows, and 3 feet 9 inches from 

 Ihe centre of the drills would have 30,970 stalks. An acre planted 3 

 rows in a drill thus : 



