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David R. Bruce, of Desmoines County, Iowa, a 

 lad of fourteen years of age, and L. H. 0. Bruce of 

 the same place, aged sixteen years, are reported in the 

 American Agriculturist to have produced, the former 

 one hundred and ten and a half bushels, and the latter 

 one hundred and seventeen and a half bushels per 

 acre without the aid of manure or fertilizers of any 

 kind. 



A writer in the Country Gentleman has stated 

 that Joseph Wright, of Waterloo, 1ST. Y., had not failed 

 once in the previous three seasons to get over one hun- 

 dred bushels of shelled corn to the acre, by planting 

 the red-cob dent corn of Illinois, imported direct from 

 the prairies. 



The late Judge Buel, a most intelligent and enthu- 

 siastic cultivator, was an advocate of close planting in 

 drills, in which he was successful, reaching from one 

 hundred bushels to about one hundred and twenty 

 bushels per acre. The Messrs. Pratt, of Madison 

 County, by the same method succeeded in producing 

 one hundred and seventy bushels to the acre. 



The editor of the Annual Register of Rural Af- 

 fairs states that one of the best farmers of his ac- 

 quaintance has obtained one hundred and thirty 

 bushels to the acre by planting his corn three feet 

 apart each way. 



The Browne corn has produced, as cited by Mr. 

 D. J. Browne, in his Memoir on Indian Corn, one 

 hundred and thirty-six bushels per acre, weighing 

 fifty-eight pounds to the bushel. 



The Whitman or Hill corn is stated by Mr. Fear- 

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