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rotation thereby shortened two 

 years " 



Mr. Pomeroy recommends the 

 following preparation of seed corn 

 for " protecting it against squirrels 

 and other vermin." 



" Take equal parts of tar and 

 train oil, simmer them together 

 and turrj over the corn ; then sift 

 on ashes, lime, or plaster, stirring 

 it, till each kernel has taken up as 

 much as will permit its being con- 

 veniently handled." He like- 

 wise thinks it probable that wal^ 

 nuts, acorns, chesmits, &LC. thus 

 prepared for planting would be 

 protected ; " the destruction of 

 which by squirrels, has very much 

 retarded plantations of those va- 

 luable trees. The Farmer's As- 

 sistant say, that when seed corn is 

 prepared with tar, "it is neces- 

 sary first to soak it sufficient to 

 make it vegetate ; as without this 

 the coat of tar will keep out the 

 moisture, and prevent the seed 

 from sprouting." 



The Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Repository, p. 241, contains a 

 statement of the production of one 

 acre of land cultivated by Jona- 

 than Hunnewell, Esq. and the 

 manner of its cultivation. By this 

 it appears that the field was an old 

 pasture ; that it was ploughed in 

 the fall of 1818, cross ploughed in 

 the spring of 1819, and planted 

 with corn in hills in the common 

 form, but well manured in the hill 

 with a mixture of horse hung, lime 

 and ashes ; when the corn was fit 

 for weeding, it was ashed by put- 

 ting about half a pint of unleached 

 ashes to each hill ; a part, how- 

 ever, was left without any ashes. 



j The difference was very visible 

 between the corn, which had ashes, 

 and that which had none. No 

 plough was suffered among it after 

 an early half-hilling ; nor had it 

 any hoeing except to destroy the 

 worst of the weeds, and to stir in 

 the turnip seed, which was sown 

 amongst it. One acre produced 

 781 bushels of corn when shelled. 

 The seed of this corn was present- 

 ed to Mr. Hunnewell by Samuel 

 Blagge, Esq. of Boston, who had 

 it of William Jarvis, Esq. of Wea- 

 thersfield, Vermont, and is the 

 same sort, we believe, which has 

 been advertised in the newspapers 

 as the Dutton-corn. 



In 1820 the same ground was 

 planted again, after a fall and 

 spring ploughing. It was furrowed 

 out at a distance of four feet, leav- 

 ing each furrow one foot wide. 

 The furrows were well manured 

 with a mixture of horse-diing, lime, 

 ashes, and dock- mud. The seed 

 raised the last year was planted in 

 the drill on each furrow, making 

 Mreerozo5 to each furrow. Care was 

 taken to drop the corn as near six 

 inches apart as possible without 

 waiting time. The cultivation 

 similar to that of the preceding 

 year. The corn when ripe, ap- 

 peared on the 1 3th of October as 

 though some pains had been to 

 strip it of the husks ; but it is the 

 nature of this corn to husk itself in 

 the field. In good seasons it re- 

 quires but ninety days to ripen. 

 The product of one acre of this 

 corn was one hundred and eleven 

 bushels. Mr. Hunnewell received 

 a premium from the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Society for this last 

 mentioned crop. 



