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them. The compost with which we planted most of our corn and 

 potatoes the present year, was composed of the same materials, and 

 managed in the same manner as that which we used last year for 

 the same purpose. 



Four acres of corn, on the same kind of soil, was manured in the 

 hill with this compost, and one acre of corn on a more meagre por- 

 tion of the same field, was manured in the same manner, with a 

 compost consisting of the same kind of mud, half a cord of manure 

 taken from the pig-sty, and forty pounds of potash, second quality, 

 dissolved in water, sprinkled over and worked into the heap, with 

 the fork, in the same manner that the dry ashes were into the other 

 compost. Of both kinds the same quantity, a common iron or steel 

 shovelful to the hill, was used, and no diflference in the crop which 

 could be ascribed to the different manures, could be perceived. The 

 hills were four by three feet apart on an average. In the borders 

 and adjoining this piece of corn, one acre was planted with potatoes. 

 The compost used in some portions of this consisted of rather a 

 larger portion of coarse barn-manure composed of meadow hay, 

 corn-fodder waste, &c., wet with urine and mixed with the drop- 

 pings of cattle, and less meadow mud. The whole six acres was 

 hoed twice only after the use of the cultivator. The whole amount 

 of labor, after the ground was furrowed and the compost prepared 

 in heaps on the fiield, is stated by the tiller of the ground, H. L. 

 Gould, to have been forty-nine days' work of one man previous to 

 the cutting of the stalks. Pumpkins, squashes, and some beans 

 were planted among the corn. The produce was four hundred and 

 sixty bushel baskets of sound corn, eighty bushels of potatoes, three 

 cords of pumpkins, one and a half bushels of white beans. On one 

 acre of the better part of the soil, harvested separately, there were 

 one hundred and twenty baskets of corn ears, and a full proportion 

 of the pumpkins. On one-eighth of an acre of Thorburn's tree 

 corn treated in the same manner as the rest, the produce was nine- 

 teen baskets. A basket of this corn shells out seventeen quarts, 

 one quart more than a basket of the ordinary kinds of corn. The 

 meal for bread and puddings is of a superior quality. Could we 

 depend upon its ripening, for, Thorburn's assertions to the contrary 

 notwithstanding, it is a late variety of corn, (though it ripened per- 



