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rows, I commence cultivating, and follow it np till it is about 

 waist liigli, after which I let it alone. I do not desire more 

 than five nor less than four stalks in a hill. I plow deeper for 

 corn than for wheat. The manure that is made on the place 

 is put on the ground I design for corn. The corn is cut the 

 first week in September, and put in shocks of eight hills square. 

 After drj'ing a short time it is liusked, and the fodder bound 

 and stacked, and fed to the stock in the Winter. All of the 

 corn I raise is fed out on the farm. 



OATS. 



My oats are sown after the wheat is sown. I sow two and 

 a half bushels to the acre. I have but once raised as small a 

 crop as forty, and have raised as high as eighty bushels to 

 the acre. I generally average fifty to sixty bushels. 



POTATOES. 



I plant whole potatoes, without sorting them. The 

 aniountpf seed varies from twelve to fifteen bushels to the 

 acre. J plant four feet apart each way, cultivate till half 

 grown, and then hill them up, making a broad, flat hill. They 

 yield from two hundred and fifty to three hundred bushels to 

 the acre. If I can obtain twenty-five cents a bushel, or more, 

 I sell them ; if they will not bring that, I feed them to the 

 stock. 



SUGAR CANE. 



1 plant a few acres of the Early Golden cane every year^ 

 and make from six hundred to one thousand gallons of sirup, 

 which sells readily at forty cents per gallon. I sold formerly 

 for seventy-five cents to one dollar per gallon. The yield is 

 from one hundred and sixty to two hundred gallons to the 

 acre, if cultivated four feet apart each way, with from seven to 

 ten stalks in a hill. It requires a little more care than corn» 

 but the profit, even at thirty cents a gallon,, is greater than on 

 wheat at present prices, or at one dollar per bushel. I attribute 

 my success in a measure to the selection of the best seed and 

 a thorough preparation of the soil, together with alternate 



