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ON THE CULTIVATION OF CORN. 



Flush your field, which has remained in clover and 

 grass for the two last years, about six inches deep ; 

 checker the ground at the distances you wish to plant 

 your corn. While you are checkering off your 

 ground, you should not suffer your plough to run 

 deeper than four inches. By this means you leave 

 the rich part of the earth two inches lower down than 

 you drop your corn. Cover your grain out of the 

 furrow, and you have the rich part of your land at 

 the bottom of the hills. 



Your land having been covered all Winter with clo- 

 ver and grass, vegetation will spring and grow with 

 great rapidity ; and the richness of the soil will have 

 been increased in consideration of its having been 

 rested for two years. It is an incontrovertible fact, 

 that the growth of grain is twice as rapid when the 

 soil has previously been covered, as when it has been 

 exposed to frost, which causes evaporation to take 

 place, and your land becomes clammy and dead, until 

 the land receives the Nitre again by the dews and 

 rains in the Spring. 



So soon as your corn comes up, you must com* 

 mence the cultivation of it with the harrow ; which 

 should go over it twice in succession. Then take 

 your small plough and cross plough your corn, and 

 by that time your presence will be needed in the har- 

 vest field. So soon as you get through your harvest, 

 you should return to your corn field ; and if the sea- 

 son should prove dry, you should work your corn the 

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