132 INDIAN CORN. 



The mode of spacing given in the second and 

 eighth lines of the above table, allowing but one 

 square foot of soil for each stalk, is introduced here 

 for the purpose of comparison only, and not with a 

 view of being attempted in practice. 



In the first and ninth lines, also, the arrangement 

 is too much crowded for general field culture, but may 

 be well enough introduced in a series of trials ; though 

 the ninth method is, in fact, the same as that practised 

 by Major Williams, of Kentucky, who succeeded in 

 getting one hundred and sixty bushels per acre, which 

 is only ten bushels short of the maximum result given 

 in the table for that method. 



The mode of distribution given in the seventh and 

 twenty-first lines will probably yield the largest ears, 

 but not as large an aggregate product as some of the 

 others. 



A few of the results in the above table are such as 

 no practical agriculturist would expect, in the present 

 state of our knowledge, to be able to arrive at. What 

 may be hereafter accomplished, when the genius of 

 our farmers shall have introduced and perfected new, 

 and at present unknown, varieties of corn, and when 

 science and skill shall have more fully developed the 

 higher possibilities of the experimental system, it 

 would be difficult now to say. But, in a soil favored 

 by nature, and rightly improved, there is, we think, 

 no impossibility in obtaining any of the results of the 

 foregoing table, with the exception of those given in 

 the first, second, and eighth lines, and, in the last col- 

 umn, of the tenth and seventeenth lines. 



