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cart-loads of green barn manure spread on the ground, and eight 

 loads of compost manure put in the hills, and a crop of corn 

 taken from it. The ensuing year it was twice ploughed in the 

 spring, and twenty cart-loads of green barn manure spread on 

 it. It was then furrowed in rows about three feet and a half 

 apart ; and about twenty cart-loads of barn, hog and slaughter- 

 yard manure were put in the rows : with the last manure was 

 mixed a hogshead of lime. The kernels were planted eight 

 inches apart in the rows. The corn was hoed three times ; all 

 the suckers were pulled out in Jnly ; and in August were taken 

 away together with the false and smutty stalks. On the 1st of 

 September the stalks were topped ; and on the 26th the corn 

 was harvested and spread on a floor, under the roof of a long 

 shed, that it might dry well. On the 14th Nov. the whole was 

 shelled : — it measured one hundred and sixteen bushels, and 

 three and a half pecks of clear sound corn. Weight of the 

 corn 56 lbs. to a bushel. 



The value of the stalks and suckers was considered equal to 

 two tons of English hay. The expenses of the cultivation 

 were estimated as follows : — 



Ploughing, 2 50 ; manure, 25 00 ; seed, 50, . 

 Furrowing and planting, 4 00 ; hoeing, 4 00, 

 Suckering and topping, 4 00 ; harvesting, 4 00, 



$U 00 



This, it must be admitted, is an extraordinary crop, but 

 the account is well attested. 



It has been made a question whether more corn can be ob- 

 tained from an acre planted in hills than from an acre planted 

 in drills or rows. In an experiment to test this point, made 

 with much care by an intelligent farmer, half an acre, planted 

 in drills, gave twenty-eight and a half double bushels of ears ; 

 and the adjoining half-acre gave twenty-three and a half double 

 bushels of ears, making a difference of five bushels in favor of 

 the half-acre planted in drills. This does not, in my opinion, 



