

On preserving Indian Corn from frost , by Samuel 

 Morey of New Hampshire, 



OrfordN. H. Sep. 5, 1816- 

 Dear Sir, 



I send you the result thus far, of an experiment now 

 making, to save corn from the effects of early frost. 

 This season of late frost, and snow, gave little hopesof rais- 

 ing a single ear of corn in this country, after the severe 

 frost of the night of the 21st of August. What corn 1 had 

 was but little injured by that ; but it having been cut 

 down by a late frost in June, the kernel was not half 

 grown in the most forward ears. We were threatened if 

 not with a famine, certainly with another severe scarcity, 

 I desired my hands, with a hoe, to remove the earth from 

 a standing hill of corn, forming a small ditch or trench 

 about 3 feet diameter, they then took or pulled up about 

 ten or twelve other hills, placed them in the ditch round 

 the standing hill, and formed a stook in the same manner 

 as is practised, when corn is cut up : the earth was then 

 hoed back on to the roots. The weather for the next 

 ten days was very cold, and we had two or three other 

 frosts in that time, and although" the standing corn was 

 preserved in a great measure from its effects, by fogs, as 

 before, yet its progress toward maturity, was scarcely 

 perceptible : not so with that 1 had removed into warmer 

 quarters :I thought could perceive every day the kernel regu. 

 iarly filling. In ten days most of the forwardest ears 1 ex- 

 amined, would have done well to pick for green corn, al- 

 though not an ear was to be found in the field of stand- 



