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allowing the canes to shoot up again, as they will, 

 he planted the pigeon pea, and proceeded as before ; 

 this second crop yielded twelve hogsheads of sugar, 

 as the benefit of the first decayed bushes was then 

 felt. He tried the peas a third time, and his crop 

 was eighteen hogsheads. Finding the improvement 

 so wonderful, he resolved on a fourth trial, and 

 the six acres yielded twenty-four hogsheads, which is 

 idered a first rate crop, equal to 100 bushels of 

 corn in this country." (Cultivator, 1842.) 



We believe that corn will take a high position 

 among gr^en manures when the best way to use it is 

 properly understood. A farmer in Kentucky, sowed 

 corn on a field of 37 acres and the result was so 

 favorable that he says: %; Were uiy only object the 

 rapid improvement of my soil within the shortest 

 space of time, I would not seek further or better 

 means than first sowing down thick with rye, which 

 I would plow under just before the time of ripening, 

 to prevent its seeding the ground, and upon which 1 

 would sow one bushel and a half of corn per acre : 

 thus in the same season plowing under a heavy coat 

 of rye and corn, which in the short space of twelve 

 months, will equal if not surpass any benefit which 

 can be derived from clover in two years." ((hdtiva- 

 tor, 1843) 



One more vote, in favor of corn, I wish to record, 

 from a good writer and practical farmer. 



S. E. Todd, says in his Farmer's Manuel : ' Some 

 fanners contend that clover plowed under is the 

 cheapest manure that can be made. It is a great 

 fertilizer ; but I believe that a soil can be renovated 

 sooner, and at a less expense, with Indian corn than 



