242 TRANSPLANTING INDIAN CORN. [PART II. 



CHAP. V. 



TRANSPLANTING INDIAN CORN. 



213. I WAS always of opinion, that this 

 would be the best mode, under certain circum 

 stances, of dealing with this crop. The spring? 

 in this part of America, and further to the 

 North, is but short. It is nearly winter 'till it 

 is summer. The labours of the year are, at 

 this season, very much crowded. To plant the 

 grains of the Indian Corn over a whole field 

 requires previous ploughing, harrowing, mark 

 ing, and manuring. The consequence is, that, 

 as there are so many other things to do, some 

 thing is but too often badly done. 



214. Now, if this work of Corn planting 

 could be postponed to the 25th of June (for 

 this Island) instead of being performed on, or 

 about the 15th of May, how well the ground 

 might be prepared by the 25th of June ! This 

 can be done only by transplanting the plants of 

 the Corn. 1 was resolved to try this and so 

 confident was I that it would succeed, that I 

 had made some part of my preparations for six 

 acres* 



