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of the same materials, and managed in the same manner as 

 that which we us^d 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 portion 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 pigsty, 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 shovel full to the 

 hill, was used, and no difference 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 bor- 

 ders 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 mix- 

 ed with the droppings of cattle, and less meadow mud. The 

 whole six acres was hoed twice only after the use of the culti- 

 vator. The whole amount of labor after the ground was fur- 

 rowed and the compost prepared in heaps on the field, 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 nineteen 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 com, (though it ripened perfectly with us last 

 season, a rather unusually warm and long one,) farmers would 



