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was Congress land, but is now all disposed of, 

 and in progress of clearing. 



The wheat crops in our course looked well, 

 and also, if I might judge, the Indian corn. 

 The latter, I may here mention, is grown in 

 rows, having a space of four feet between every 

 two, and the plants in the rows three feet asun 

 der, two seeds, as I learnt, being always dib 

 bled into each hole. The land may thus be 

 very effectually horse and hand-hoed, and, in 

 deed, it appeared to me, that no crop I had 

 ever seen admits of so thorough a working of 

 the land in summer as this does. 



I could not, however, learn whether Indian 

 corn is found to be an exhausting crop, as 

 &quot; exhausting crop&quot; seems not to be a term in 

 an American farmer s vocabulary ; at least it 

 has not been yet recognized in his language, 

 although a persistence in his present manage 

 ment may ere long illustrate its meaning. 

 From the class to which this plant belongs, it 

 should be inferred, that it is to be included 

 among deteriorating crops. 



The stock I observed in the course of this 



