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to the source whence it was obtained ; some call it Smutty 

 White, but I believe that is a distinct variety. This corn is 

 remarkable for earing near the ground, filling out to the end of 

 the cob, and producing light top stalks. 



My corn was hoed three times ; at the first hoeing a plough 

 was used, and afterwards a cultivator. The exact expense of 

 the crop it seems not practicable to ascertain. What amount of 

 manure has been consumed by the corn crops, and what re- 

 mains to benefit the laud hereafter, are questions to which 

 scarcely any two farmers would give the same answer. I sup- 

 pose fifty dollars would cover every expense of this crop, and 

 the corn, at fifty cents per bushel, will yield that sum, and 

 leave a generous rent for the land. Then there is the fodder, 

 which, it is believed, will nourish a stock of cattle nearly or 

 quite as much as a crop of hay from the same land. It is im- 

 possible for me to believe that our citizens are consulting their 

 true interests, when they travel into the western states for their 

 corn. 



Pembroke, Oct. 17, 1850. 



George W. Wooci's Statement. 



The acre of land I entered for the greatest crop of Indian 

 corn, is a clayey loam, and was English meadow in 1849, 

 yielding about one ton of hay to the acre. May 20th, ploughed 

 it eight inches deep ; then harrowed it twice, lengthwise ; drew 

 on and spread twenty-five loads of manure from hog-yard, (for- 

 ty cubic feet to each); then cultivated it twice, and harrowed 

 till I made the top of the soil very fine : furrowed three feet 

 four inches apart, nearly north and south. May 24th and 25th, 

 planted the smutty white corn, (first dropping fifteen loads 

 compost manure, mixed v.-ith seventy-five bushels of leached 

 ashes,) two feet apart, four or five corns in a hill. June 19th, 

 cultivated twice in a row ; 20th, two and a half days' work 

 hoeing. July 6th, cultivated. From 8th to 12th, hoed it, by 

 odd jobs. July 31st, went over with the hoe, and cut up the 

 weeds ; topped the stalks from September 20th to October 1st. 

 The stalks had got very ripe, topping so late, but do not think 

 it hurt the corn. I raised the hills as little as possible. The 



