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bushels on an acre. Mr. Ludlow, 

 of the same State, 98, and Mr.Hun- 

 newell, of Massachusetts, 111 in 

 the drill method. Mr. Stevens 

 planted double rows, only 8 inches 

 apart, and the seed in rows also 8 

 inches asunder, but planted diago- 

 nally so as that no one stalk should 

 be opposite to another. The dou- 

 ble rows were distant from each 

 other 5i feet. Mr. Ludlow plant- 

 ed in single rows, the grains at 8 

 inches apar! in each row, and the 

 rows four feet apart. Mr. Steven's 

 land was much more highly ma- 

 nured. 



When there is reason to appre- 

 hend that the ground will prove too 

 moist for this crop, it will be ad- 

 visable to plough it into narrow 

 ridges, and seed each ridge with 

 one or two rows, as shall be found 

 most convenient. Some of the 

 finest crops that I have known, have 

 been raised in this method. 



Whf n a st^son is at all wet, this 

 would be tluAest culture in almost 

 any soil, unless the very driest be 

 excepted. 



There is a kind of ridging,which 

 would be very proper for this plant, 

 not only on account of drying the 

 soil, but that the land may have an 

 alternate resting, or fallowing, be- 

 tween the rows. In the conmion 

 method of plain ploughing, it com- 

 monly happens that a hill stands 

 precisely in the place of a hill of 

 ihe pre( eding year. When this is 

 the case, the plants will receive less 

 nourisliment than if the hill had had 

 a new situation* That each hdl 

 may always have this advantage. 

 Set a ridge be formt d by two fur- 

 rows, turning part of a row of hills 



on each side, so as to meet each 

 other, in the last year's interval : 

 Thus small ridges will be formed, 

 on which the rows should be plant- 

 ed. If dung be first spread over 

 the ground, the most of it will be 

 buried where it should be, in the 

 bottom of these ridges. At the time 

 of weeding,or at the second hoeing, 

 the remainders of the old hills may 

 be turned towards the new rows. 

 VVith such a mode of cullure, land 

 could not soon be exhausted, even 

 by a successive cropping with 

 maize. Land which has before 

 been planted on ridges is as proper 

 for this management, as if it had 

 been planted in hills, or even more 

 proper. For the success of a me- 

 thod not very dissimilar to this, see 

 Experiment for raising Indian corji, 

 in the Memoiis of the American 

 Academy, by Joseph Greenleaf, 

 Esq. 



Care should be taken that the 

 top stalks of the corn should not be 

 cut too early. Perhaps the best 

 possible rule is to examine wheth- 

 er the ears are pretty generally fil- 

 led out, and whether they are so 

 firm as to resist a light impression 

 of the finger nail, hi that case, they 

 may be cut without injury, but 

 while in a growing state it is inex- 

 pedient to cut them. 



We are certainly guilty of an er- 

 ror when we harvest this corn too 

 early. The difference of early and 

 late harvested corn may be seen by 

 the shrinking of corn in the former 

 case. In drying, large spaces may 

 be left between the kernels on the 

 cob; but that which is well ripen- 

 ed on the stalk, will shew no such 

 interstices. The corn will undoubt- 



