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this succeed as well as the first and second, I have no 

 hesitation in pronouncing it as my opinion, that Towsley 

 and Co.'s plough is superior to any I have ever had used. 

 Whilst on the important subject of agriculture, I deem 

 the present a suitable opportunity to communicate the 

 result of my experience in the culture of corn and tur- 

 nips, the first of which, from the frosts of this season, 

 failed to an alarming extent, and suggest the propriety of 

 an earlier attention in planting. I commenced this year 

 on the 27th of the 4th month, (April,) but not having 

 sufficient manure on the ground, for dunging in the hills, 

 I stopped on the 30th, when five acres were done, and 

 did not begin again until the 12th of the 5th month, 

 (May,) and finished on the 15th ; with this I hand thee 

 two ears, of the growth of the first planting ; the whole 

 five acres came to perfection, and was admitted by all my 

 neighbours to be the best corn grown this season : the 

 second planting was about half hard, the other in a milky 

 state, when the frost took it, and not near as heavy a crop. 

 From this, and the planting on the 25th of the 4th month, 

 (April,) 1815, which was an excellent crop, I am led to 

 believe that an erroneous idea is prevalent, that from the 

 10th to the 20th of the 5th month, (May,) is the proper 

 time to plant. By my diary of daily occurrences, and 

 state of the weather, I find that the corn planted on the 

 27th of the 4th month, (April,) was up on the 3d of the 

 5th month, (May,) on the 15th it was apparently killed 

 by the frost of the night preceding, and the frosts of the 

 7th, 8th, and 9th of the 6th month, (June,) were so se- 

 vere as to nip the blades of the whole field ; on the morn- 

 ing of the 12th a fine shower fell, attended with thunder. 



