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red, I do not fear being too strenuous. It should be considered 

 as the great crop of New England, and its cultivation ought to 

 be increased tenfold ; that is, Avhere a farmer now cultivates one 

 acre of corn he ought to cultivate ten acres. This, in most 

 parts of the State, is practicable and may be done to great ad- 

 vantage. Of the actual amounts produced to an acre under high 

 cultivation 1 have mentioned several instances so extraordinary 

 as to stagger the belief of many farmers. Their belief or un- 

 belief, however, does not affect the facts in the case ; and these 

 facts are authenticated beyond all reasonable question. In this 

 county, one hundred and twelve and one hundred and sixteen 

 bushels have been raised to the acre ; ni other parts of the State 

 even larger crops than these ; in New Hampshire, one hundred 

 twenty-nine and one hundred thirty-two bushels; and in New 

 York more than one hundred and seventy bushels have been 

 produced to an acre. These statements ought to stimulate 

 every farmer to improve his cultivation so that he may increase 

 his crops to their utmost extent. Many farmers, intelligent and 

 skilful, in their attempts to produce a hundred bushels of corn 

 to an acre, have failed to do it and therefore maintain that it 

 cannot be done. I do not see that this inference necessa- 

 rily follows. Why they have failed in attempts which have 

 been apparently well conducted, it is not easy to say. But their 

 failure, although it may affect the intrinsic credibility of the 

 statements of others, does by no means disprove the evidence 

 by which such statements are authenticated. The real causes 

 of their failure deserve the most critical inquiry and experiment. 

 It has been made a question whether, on a farm where the 

 supply of manure is very limited, it would be best to apply the 

 whole of the manure upon one acre only and produce one hun- 

 dred bushels of corn, or upon two acres and produce fifty bush- 

 els to the acre. If the object be merely to obtain a single crop, 

 undoubtedly it would be best to get the crop from a single 

 acre, as the cultivation would be but half the expense of culti- 

 vating two acres. But if it be desirable, on account of the 

 condition of tlie farm, at once to turn up more land with a view 



