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QUANTITY OF SEED-CORN SOWN 



it is covered ; and this may possibly have some influence 

 in securing the growth of a larger proportion of the 

 seeds sown, than in the case of less securely protected 

 kinds of grain. But on comparing together the practice 

 of different portions of the United States, in reference 

 to the quantity of seed-corn of various kinds sown to 

 the acre, we are compelled, I think, to allow to other 

 causes a very material influence in determining how 

 much or how little it will be safest for the farmer to 

 sow. Thus of wheat, barley, oats, rye, rice, and pota- 

 toes, the quantity of seed put in per imperial acre, in 

 the different States, so far as I have been able to ascer- 

 tain, is as follows : — 



Georgia, 



Alabama, 



Michigan, 



WHEAT. 



Bushels. 





Texas, 

 Illinois, 

 New York, 



Bushels. 

 3 



toU 



H 



Tennessee, 

 Michigan, 

 Maine, 



BARLEY. 



Bushels. Bushels. 



I New York, 2 to 3 



li to 2 New Hampshire, 2i .. . 4 



OATS. 



Bushels. 



Alabama, | to 1 



South Carolina, 1 

 Georgia, . 1 ... 1, 

 New York, li... 3 



Bushels. 



Michigan, 2 to 3 



Vermont, . 3 



Iowa, . 2 ... 4 



New Hampshire, 3 ... 4 



Of these three kinds of grain, it seems to be generally 

 true that the newer States sow less seed than the older, 

 and the more southerly than those which lie more 

 towards the north and the east. As Alabama and 

 Texas are chalk countries, the quantity of calcareous 

 matter in the soils may have an influence in diminishing 

 the quantity of seed-wheat required. 



