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of the Potomac, who made more than thirty barrels per 

 acre. In planting corn in drills, the tedious mode of 

 covering with hoes may be dispensed with, as the harrow 

 answers a much better purpose, and covers the corn light- 

 er and more even. Harrowing over the corn when it is 

 about six inches high, is an universal practice with our 

 best corn growers. You ask how you can, by plaster 

 and clover, make your lands produce thirty-five bushels 

 of wheat per acre ? I answer, plough deep, sow not less 

 than one bushel of clover seed on ten acres of the land in 

 which you have wheat, rye, or oats ; sow a bushel of 

 plaster to the acre on your wheat, in the fall, and a half 

 bushel of plaster , mixed with a half bushel of ashes, on 

 your clover and wheat, and a bushel of plaster on your 

 clover fields, in the spring. Make a fallow of your clo- 

 ver fields every third year, and I think you may calcu- 

 late on thirty-five bushels per acre. With respect to the 

 old field that you contemplate sowing in oats and clover, 

 I would not advise you to plough in the clover this fall, 

 nor would I the next fall, were the clover promising. 

 I am, with great respect, yours, &c. 



W. NOLAND. 



Thomas Leiper, Esq. 



