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tipped as it is some seasons. From one acre, measured, we 

 have taken at the rate of one hundred and thirty bushels of 

 ears, and the corn of a good quality. The crops of peas, cab- 

 bages, carrots, &c., are good, though not being harvested, we 

 cannot give the particulars. The corn sowed broadcast, proved 

 a very cheap feed for stock, besides having the effect of leav- 

 ing the ground upon which it was sowed, in a very mellow state 

 for after cultivation, a part of which, together with a portion 

 of the potatoe ground, has been sowed with winter wheat, and 

 which now looks very promising. 



Our manner of cultivating corn being somewhat different 

 from that usually practised in this vicinity, I will give you a 

 brief description of. The manure having been ploughed in, as 

 before alluded to, the corn was planted with Bachelder's Corn 

 Planter, in rows three feet apart, by two and a half feet in the 

 hill. One man, with a horse and boy to drive, will readily 

 plant six acres in a day, and leave it in a state for hoeing prefer- 

 able to that planted in the usual way, as it leaves the ground 

 and hill better adapted to a fiat cultivation. After the corn 

 was well up, the horse cultivator was put into it, and with one 

 man to hold and drive, was passed through it once a week until 

 the corn roots had extended to the distance of six or eight 

 inches from the hill, after which, ^ slight passing over with the 

 hoe proved sufficient. 



Six men have generally been employed upon the farm, 

 though a large portion of labor has been done otherwise than 

 upon the crops, all of which has been charged separately, leav- 

 ing the farm accounts for the ploughing, manuring, planting 

 and cultivation of the crops, and the larger part of the harvest- 

 ing, standing thus : April 1st to November 1st, two hundred 

 and sixty-one dollars, being a fraction over eight dollars per 

 acre for the thirty-two acres tilled, exclusive of board and team 

 expenses. 



Of the manure heap I will speak briefly. Early in the sea- 

 son, we commenced putting muck under the cattle, and contin- 

 ued in this way, until the weather becoming cooler, and fearing 

 that evil effects might arise from its continuance, we adopted 

 the following plan : — Daily, the manure, both solid and liquid, 



