20 CORN. 



faster, say twice a week, and proceed until you find 

 the silk is dead, and turned black at the end of the 

 ear; for so long as there is new silk coming out of 

 the ear or husk, you must continue to work your 

 corn, inasmuch as the cob is growing larger, and new 

 grains forming. 



By this mode of cultivating your corn, you will be 

 sure of a full crop, if not a double one. You must 

 pick your best corn for seed ; break your ear in the 

 middle, and take the best end for your seed. If your 

 land is wet, you should soak your corn by passing 

 hot water through it the night previous ; as it is a well 

 known fact, that if the ground is wet and the corn 

 dry, the latter will rot, and vice versa. 



If the season should prove wet, you must endeav- 

 or to keep your land well drained, and work it once 

 or twice a week with your harrow. So soon as the 

 silk of the corn becomes black or appears dead, you 

 should commence taking down your fodder; and so 

 soon as you get it secured, you should commence cut- 

 ting off by the ground the stalks, and have them 

 shocked against the fence of your barn yarn, or some 

 other convenient place. 



You may now seed your corn ground down in 

 buckwheat with a harrow; then seed the same ground 

 in clover and grass ; roll the ground with your roller, 

 and the buckwheat will come up in six or eight days, 

 which will cover and give security from the sun to the 

 land, clover and grass. By the time the frost nips the 



