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rows 6 inches apart, and the plants 9 inches in the rows, with a distance 

 of 3 feet from the centre of the drills would have 43,560 stalks, or 170 

 bushels ; while the hills, 4 feet by 4 feet, could only give 42 bushels. A 

 crop of 170 bushels to the acre was actually raised, some years since, in&quot; 

 Madison county, New York, on the three row system. 



295. The proper depth at which to plant the corn is about 

 1 inch to 1 J inches. 



The following experiment was made by Burger, in Germany : 



Indian corn which was planted at the depth of 



No. 1, 1 inch, came up in 8|- days. 



No. 2, 1-J- inches, came up in 9-J- days. 



No. 3, 2 inches, came up in 10 days. 



No. 4, 2 J inches, came up in 1 1-J- days. 



No. 5, 3 inches, came up in 12 days. 



No. 6, 3 inches, came up in 13 days. 



No. 7, 4 inches, came up in 13j days. 



No. 8, 4J inches, came up in days. 



No. 9, 5 inches, came up in days. 



No. 10, 5^ inches, came up in 17J days. 



No. 11, 6 inches, came up in days. 



Nos. 8, 9, and 11, were dug up after 22 days, when it was 

 found that No. 8, had an inch more to grow to reach the sur 

 face. Nos. 8, and 11, had just sprouted but were short, and 3 

 inches below the surface. No. 10, came up in 17J days, but 

 withered after 6 days growth. The more shallow the seed was 

 covered by the earth, the more rapidly the sprout made its ap 

 pearance, and the stronger, afterwards, was the stalk. 



Corn will not germinate unless the temperature of the soil 

 attains to 55 Fahr., and at a temperature higher than 110 

 it equally refuses to vegetate. 



&quot; Much of the damage which is supposed to arise from planting in 

 the wrong time of the moon, is really due to planting when the soil 

 is at the wrong temperature, and if the time ever arrives when the aver 

 age crop of the country is equal to what our premium crops now are, it 



