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salt petre, copperas; blue vitriol iiinl arsenic, 

 liave ;ill been uschI and recormupiidi'il for cum- 

 posinif steeps tor preserving seeds of Indi.in corn. 

 wheat ^-c. from woiins. But there is somf d.in- 

 ger, we apprehend, in the use ot' those acrid and 

 caustic substances, lest they destroy Ihe princi- 

 ple of vegetation in the seed. We bel eve thai 

 brine, or pickirs, which had been used for pre 

 serving meal, would prove the most sal'e, and 

 quite as eflectual as ny steep which can be em- 

 ployed. Tar, or any other terehinthinate sub- 

 stance is peculiarly oflensive to birds and insects 

 and if usL'd with the precautions above mention- 

 ed will not injure the see<l. Indian poke and 

 rel'use tobacco have been likewise recommend- 

 ed as I'orming good sleeps for Indian corn, and, 

 no doubt, any substance which is poisonous or 

 unpleasant to birds or worms will answer that 

 purpose. 



If you plant on new sward land, (which 

 may sometimes be expedient when your Ian " 



in each hill to advantage." Mr Pomcroy in his 

 able essay on Indian corn, published in Ihe 

 "• Ma.ss. Ag Repos. vol. vi. No. 2," sa^s, " i 

 think four stalks together afford support to each 

 other aeainst winds, and are not So apt to send 

 up suckers as when single." But in land easily 

 tilled, and sheltered from winds, more produce 

 can be oblained by the drill methnd of planting 

 than by planting in hills. But rare must be 

 laken not to overstock the grounds according 

 to the methnd complained of by our corres- 

 pondent. [See page 315 of this days paper. 



In the Mass. Ag. Repository vol. vi. pages 

 -11, L'42. we have a statement of a premium 

 crop of Indian corn raised bv Hon. Jona. Hunne- 

 >vell in Newton ftlass. in 1820, by which it ap- 

 pears that the ground on which his crop of 



is turned over quite flat by the plough, and is 



of easy culture,) be careful to make vour holes j Ao«e dun^, lime, asliea, and dock mud. 

 for hills quite through the sods. These yon seed raised last year was planted in the 

 will do well to partly till with manure before 

 you deposit the seed. Dr. Deane observed, 

 " if tv.enly loads of good manure can be afford- 

 ed for an acre, it should be spread on the land 

 and ploughed in : If no more than half of that 

 quantity, it will be best to put it in holes. In 

 the former case the corn usually comes up bet- 

 ter, sufters less by drought and worms ; and the 

 land is in better order after the crop. In the 

 latter case the plants are more assisted in their 

 growth in proportiin to the quantity of manure, 

 if the manure be new luns, burying itnnderthe 

 furrows is by far the belter inethod. None but 

 old dung should be put into the holes." It will 

 always be requisite to place about an inch of 

 moiiUl or earth over the manure before the 

 seed is depos'ted. If you have green manure 

 it will be wel to spread it as equally as possi- 

 ble over ihe whule field, and to put some good 

 compost or well rotten manure into the hill n 

 flddit o . Tha manure in the hills will srive 

 the plants a good setting out, and the broad cut 

 manure will nourish them the latter part of 

 the season, when the fibrous roots pervade the 

 whole soil. 



■ The time of planting depends on the nature 

 of the bO.I and the stale of ^he season. The old 

 Indian rule, as a general maxim, 1=, perhaps, as 

 good as any, viz. — " Plant your corn when the 

 leaves of the white oak are aboul the size of a 

 mouse's ear." Th-s, generally, happens be- 

 tween the 20th of May and the 1st of June. But 

 in dry soils it may be well to plant a little earli- 

 er. 



With regard to the mode of planting, the fol- 

 lowing rul3 is, we believe, correct. " If the 

 land is rough and strong, and the object is to 

 wake the most of labour, the better way is to 

 pl.:nt in bills; but if the soil is rich and easy to 

 till, and the object is to make the most of land, 

 the drill method should be chosen. According 

 to the first method, let the ground be cut into 

 squares, by shoal furrows with a horse-plough, 

 (say half as deep as for common ploughing) from 

 thr?t! to four feel apart, according to the kinds 

 of corn to be planted. If nearly a shovel-full of 

 dung is to be put into each hill — the furrowing 

 inust be consequently pretty deep. If care is 

 taken in planting, to [)lace the kernels four or 

 £ye inches a part, four or five stalks can stand 



111 bushels on an acre were raised 

 ploughed in the fall and again ploughed in the 

 "I" ing, furrowed out at a distance of four feet 

 leaving each furrow one foot wide. The fur- 

 rows were well manured with a mixture of 



The 

 drill 

 on each furrow, making three rozi's to each fur- 

 row. Care was t.iken to drop the corn as near 

 six inches apart as was possible without wast- 

 ing time. When the corn was fit for weeding 

 care was taken to thin it out where it was ton 

 thick ; after weeding it was ashed by spreading 

 unleaihed ashes through each drill or furrow. 

 An aero of this land, planted in drills, was 

 measured, and the corn cut up, husked, and 

 measured, which produced 222,1 bushels of corn 

 in Ihe ear ; several bushels of the ears were 

 shelled and measured in the kernel, and in ev- 

 ery case it was found that two bushels of ears 

 did proiluce rather over one in the kernel. — 

 Thus we fairly c dculated that we had from 1 

 acre of gr Mind one liundred and eleven bushels 

 and one peck of corn. The land improved was 

 g-ood with n deep Hack soil followed by a strat- 

 um of yellow loam, terminatina: with a hard 

 pan of c'ayey gravel at the depth of aboui two 

 feet, It will be found that by planting in liiis 

 mode o( three rows to each furrozo there will be 

 more than double the stalks of corn in a roi 

 than in the usual way of planting in hills. Some 

 may object to this mcde because they can 

 plough only one way and not cross plough. But 

 if will be found that it takes no more lime to 

 hoe the corn in drills than it will to do the 

 cross ploughing, and it requires bul one weeding 

 and one hoeing. The third time of ploughing 

 and hoeing is saved.'" 



The seed of this corn was presented to Mr 

 Hunewell by Samuel Blagge Esq. of Boston, 

 who had it of William Jarvis Esq. of Wealhers- 

 field, Vermont. It is said to be an early and 

 productive sort, and probably its general cul 

 lure would be of service to the agricultural in- 

 terest. It will be perceived that the distance 

 between the rows in Mr Huniiewell's premium 

 was four feet ; but 'n the experiment mention- 

 ed by our correspondent, [see page 31-1 of this 

 day's paper] the distance was but 2 feet 9 inch- 

 es ; end the corn in the rows was set at the 

 same distance in both cases. The nearness of 

 the rows was probably the cause of the failure 

 in the experiment stated by our correspondent. 



SU»I»XARY OZ* WEWS. 



ThK late I'reti.knt, (Joloucl Monroe, ofli-rs at publirk 

 fate on Ihe (iiit Aloriday in June next, his Albemarle 

 estate lu Virginia of 3500 acres ; also another liact of 

 land of 700 acres, near Milton. Applicants are re- 

 quested to address Ihemselves directly to hiui. 



The London I'aptrs mention that Gen. Lafayette 

 has transmitted to England $31100 f.ir the relief of the 

 French, $900 to llie Spanish, aiid $200 to the Italian 

 exiles there. 



Captain .Symmes has been invited by Count Roman- 

 zoff, of Russia, to join a .North I'de expedition which 

 Ihe Count is projecting ; the Captain has accepted the 

 invitation under certain conditions. 



ThoRoxbury Gazette slates tliat a New Rope Man- 

 nfai t-iry has recently been established in North Hamp- 

 ton street, in which one hundr( d and twelve person'! 

 are employed. Ihe expense of this establishment i« 

 estiaialed at $5000. 



%.* 1'. J. HoL,j,A«D, Esq. Editor of the Arcadian Re- 

 corder, has been appointed Ag^ent for the New England 

 Farmer, for Halifax and its vicinity, and is authorized 

 to receive moaeys and subscriptions on our behalf. 



A few days since, the books for subscription to the 

 Vew York Water Works Company, were opened in 

 that city, at the Franklin Bank, and liy 3 o'clock up- 

 wardsofNlNE MILLION.S of DOLLARS were sub- 

 scribed. The capital of the Cooipaiiy is only two mil- 

 lions. 



Cannls in South Carolina. — We understand, says the 

 South Carolina State Gazette of the 2Gth ult. that all 

 the canals and locks on the Saluda are now finished 

 and open for use. The navigaion from Charleston up 

 Cooper's river, through the Santee Canal, up the San- 

 tee and Congaree rivers, through the Columbia canal 

 into Broad river, and thiongh the Saluda canal from 

 Broad to Saluda river, and up that river thro' Drebr's 

 and Lotick's canals to Cambridge, is thus open to the 

 trade of the country. The whole distance of this nav- 

 igation is at least 300 miles by water, and more than 

 '300 by the nearest land rout. It passas five canals, 

 and 28 locks, which overcome a fall of 217 feet. 



Arianj-'inents are made by the British government 

 for carrying 2000 Irish emigrants to Canada. 



Fires. On the 18th inst. the dwelling-house, two 

 barns, and a number of out-buildings, belonging to the 

 Widow Sarah Hoit, of Sandwich, N H were destroyed 

 by fire ; -1 oxen, 23 shei p, a number of calves, and a- 

 bont 150 Vnijhi Is of corn were consumed. The fire is 

 bc'ievftt^ f** ha^'f originated from a coal, which was drop- 

 ped by 1 oys, who were at play with some powder. — 

 On the evening of the same day. the dwelling-house of 

 Mr Bartholomew Gale, of Gil uantown, N. H. was con- 

 sumed byfi re with nearly all its contents. — Two stores 

 in Pearl-street N. Y. have lately been burnt, and sev- 

 eral ware-houses In Albany. — The dwelling-house and 

 tavern of Mr Daniel Thomas, about a mile from Ballas- 

 ton Springs, was destroyed by fire on Ihi' 3d inst. — A 

 building in Newbury-port, occupied as a Painter's' shop 

 was consumed on the 21st inst. — The dwelling-houss 

 of Mr Daniel AViley in South Reading was burnt on 

 the night of the 23d inst. — X fire-proof store in New- 

 Bedford, wss damaged to the amount of $1000 by fire 

 on the 20th inst. — On the ]6th inst. a tavern and store 

 in Hartford Vt. belonging to Mr George Udal were de- 

 stroyed by fire— Loss estimated at $4000.— The White 

 Lead Works of Mr G. W. Murray, upper end of Broad 



way, N. Y. were destroyed by fire on the 14th in^t 



On the ISlh inst. two dwelling-houses were burnt in 

 Greenwich village, N. Y. — In Windsor Vt. a two story 

 building, occupied as a saddler's shap, and bookstore 

 were much injured by fire. — On the 10th inst. the house 

 of Mr John Harrison, of Maccon, in Nova Scotia was 

 destroyed by fire, and himself and thiee children were 

 burnt in it. — A woolen factory in Jaffrey N. H. was 

 consumed by fire on the 17th inst. together with all the 

 machinery and stock ; loss 3 or $4000 — On the follow- 

 ing morning a blacksmith's shop and trip-hammer 

 works, situated within 50 rods of the above factory 

 were destroyed by fire. In both instances, the fire 

 broke out at 2 o'clock in the morning — Three dwelling, 

 bouses were totally burnt to the ground at Tomhirst- 

 ville, Staten Island, N. Y. 



P 



ASTURE WANTED— Wanted to hire for a month 

 or six weeks, to commence about 15th May next. 



a piece of pasture land in a dry situation, in or near 

 Brookline, sufficient for a flock ol about 150 sheep. A 

 level tract of high land, with some shade, and if possi- 

 ble a stream of water running through it, would be pre- 

 ferred. Apply at the office of the New England Farma:, 



