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ing Burr, Jr., to have given a product of one hundred 

 and forty bushels per acre. 



It has been announced in a Kentucky journal that 

 Major Williams, of Bourbon County, succeeded in 

 raising one hundred and sixty bushels to the acre by 

 planting in rows two feet asunder, with the stalks 

 twelve inches apart in the row. This is another 

 among many proofs that corn, if rightly treated, may 

 be planted nearer than the usual practice without los- 

 ing its earing capacity. 



Mr. C. T. Johnson, of New Jersey, has reported 

 to the Farmers' Club of the American Institute, a 

 crop of the improved King Philip, reaching nearly 

 two hundred bushels per acre, produced by close 

 planting in drills. 



In a field of corn of six acres, planted by Henry 

 Norton, of Western Ohio, one-half the field receiving 

 no manure, produced one hundred and twelve bushels 

 per acre ; while the other half, by subsoiling and lib- 

 eral manuring, gave a product of one hundred and 

 sixty-five bushels, the ears averaging nearly three- 

 quarters of a pound in weight. 



A. B. Miller, of Marion County, Iowa, has written 

 to the American Agriculturist an account of sev- 

 eral crops raised by farmers in that county in 1860, 

 yielding from one hundred to one hundred and 

 twenty-two bushels per acre; stating that another 

 farmer in the same county, Mr. B. Long, has produced 

 one hundred and seventy-eight bushels per acre on 

 three contiguous acres; and still further, that Mr. 



