IN THE DIFFERENT STATES. 229 



RYE. 



Bushels. Bushels. 



Alabama and ) ^ New Jersey and ) 



Mississippi, j ^ Tennessee j 



Georgia, . | Michigan, . ll 



Soutli Carolina, § New Hampshire, 1 to 2 



Iowa, . . 2 



Illinois, . 2 to 2| 



POTATOES. 



Bushels. 



Georgia and ) o + « Maine, Connecticut, \ , 



Tennessee, j ^ and Maryland, j 



Mississippi, 4 New York and Ohio, 8 to 20 



New Jersey, 2^ ... 10 New Hampshire, Ver- ) ^^ 2o 

 mont, and Massachusetts, J 



Of these crops, also, the quantity of seed increases as 

 we come north. 



Of rice, half a bushel is sown i.n Alabama, and two 

 bushels in Tennessee ; but, in the case of rice and rye, 

 so much depends upon small differences in the soil, and 

 in the case of potatoes upon the variety planted, that 

 safe conclusions cannot be drawn from varying practice, 

 as to these crops. 



It is not surprising, though it is economically of much 

 importance, that a still less proportion of seed should 

 be used in planting Indian corn generally, than is found 

 necessary even for buckwheat. Thus the quantities 

 usually put in, are, in — 



The differences in regard to this grain are less striking, 

 because it is dropped or dibbled in with the hand ; and 

 the above differences in the quantity used depend upon 

 the distances at which the hills are put, and the number 

 of grains dropped into a hill — and these, again, on the 



