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mutton. I have also one hundred and five acres of land be- 

 sides the home farm, which are in timber and pasture. I have 

 kept a correct account of my expenses of raising corn, and I 

 find it can be done at a cost of twenty cents a bushel. My 

 plan of raising corn is as follows : The twenty acres I break 

 in the Fall, I harrow in the Spring with a Scotch-hinge harrow, 

 until I have a mellow, even seed bed. Then I mark with a 

 four-row marker and plant three feet eight inches with a Key- 

 stone planter, making my corn 3 by 8 each way, I then harrow 

 the same way the corn is planted, and in a few days cross har- 

 row, and keep harrowing until the corn is four to six inches 

 high, when I begin cultivating with a John Deere and Grajiger 

 cultivator. I go over the corn with the cultivator three or 

 perhaps four times before the corn is too high. I cut and plow 

 my corn stalks under, but do not consider it as good a plan as 

 to burn them, for the reason that the eggs of many insects are 

 deposited in the dry stalks and will hatch out and injure the 

 corn. I plow, however, and cultivate my Spring plowing in the 

 same manner, stirring the ground as often as possible. Many 

 object to using the harrow after the corn is up, for the reason 

 that too much corn is torn out, but I have tried every way 

 until I am well satisfied that the harrow is the best implement 

 on the farm for working corn, until it is six inches high. Very 

 few weeds will sprout, if two inches under the ground, and 

 those near the surface will be torn up and killed by the har- 

 row, while corn planted three inches deep will not be injured. 



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I have raised this way one hundred and three bushels 

 shelled corn to the acre, and the crop seldom falls below sixty 

 bushels. I have pasture outside my home farm. I keep more 

 stock than I can raise grain and hay to feed, so I add more to 

 my farm than I take off, and always have a fine lot of manure. 

 This I haul on my pastures and meadows in the Fall, spread as 

 evenly as possible and then by running a harrow over it leave 

 it in very good condition to be taken into the soil by the Fall 

 rains. I find Fall pasturing to be injurious to meadows. Pas- 



