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seed with clover, and let that lay two years, and 

 then turn under." 



Distance for pl-anting Com. — J. J. Thomas, of 

 jCayugii, stated that the usual distance of planting 

 corn was three and a half feet apart each way. A 

 piece planted three feet by twenty inches yielded 

 one-third more than that planted the usual distance. 

 Hon. George Geddes said: "Of course, corn will 

 produce more, if planted thick." 



In this section, we have seen corn injured by 

 planting as thick as recommended by Mr. Thomas. 

 It did not ripen well. 



Corn for Fodder.— The Hon, T, C. Phtees, of 

 Genesee county, said: 



" I sowed a plot of ground in drills with Ohio 

 corn, for fodder, and obtained at the rate of nine 

 poinds of green fodder per square foot of ground ; 

 and as there is over 43,000 feet in an acre, we 

 should have about 400,000 lbs. on an acre. In 

 drying, stalks shrink two-thirds." 



This is over sixty-five tons of dry fodder per 



acre ; but friend Peteks should know that such a 



method of estimating a crop is erroneous. 



Floioing Land in the Fall, for Corn. — "S. M. 

 Brown, of Onondaga — I grow corn cheaper than 

 I did fifteen years ago. I plow in the fall eight to 

 ten inches deep, in gravelly loam. I mellow it in 

 the spring with a cultivator, and do most of the 

 cultivation with the same implement. I grew near 

 100 bushels per acre this year, and it wont cost me 

 over ten and a half cents per bushel. I think 

 farmers would do well to depend more upon corn. 

 I maimre by top-dressing with compost, using salt, 

 plaster, and unleached ashes, with barn-yard ma- 

 nure. Muck is good, but I have none. I plant 

 corn on green sward not over four years old. I 

 consider the fodder equal to two and a half tons of 

 hay per acre." 



Hen Manure for Corn. — 0. "W. Blair, of Oneida 

 county, put six bushels of hen manure on two acres 

 of corn — a tablespoonful in each hill. The manure 

 was covered about an inch deep, and the corn 

 planted directly over the manure. The crop was 

 eighty bushels of shelled corn per acre. He says : 

 " I think the hen manure made some twenty-five 

 or thirty bushels of corn on the two acres." 



Leicester Pigs. — Mr. Blaib gives the weight of 

 three Leicester pigs, butchered on the 27th of De- 

 cember, when eight months and twenty-two days 

 old. They weighed respectively, 298 lbs., 320 lbs., 

 and 340^ lbs. They had the milk of three cows, 

 well skimmed, and about two quarts of corn meal 

 \>ev day till September ; after that, corn in the ear 

 about six weeks; then corn meal, all they would 

 eat, till they were butcliered. 



Fish Ponds. — If N. II. 0. will keep frogs in his 

 p<.)rKl, they will keep it clear of the so-called frog- 

 spittle.— W. 



EAKLY VARrETIES OF WHEAT. 



As before stated, in the August number of the 

 Genesee Farmer, we expected samples of some of 

 the earliest varieties of wheat raised in Viijginia. 

 Frank G. Ruffin, of Richmond, who kindly con- 

 sented to aid us in this matter, informs us that he 

 has written to many friends and acquaintances, but 

 has only heard from one of them. This is John F. 

 Wiley, U. S. Marshall, Eastern District, Va. The 

 variety of wheat raised by Mr. W. is the Early 

 Connor. We annex a cut of it (fig. 1), together with 

 some extracts from Mr. Wiley's letter to Mr. Ruffin : 



"I commenced my harvest on the 2d of June, 

 which is some eight or ten days earlier than I 

 recollect ever to have commenced harvest before. 

 The grain, as you will perceive, is small, but of 

 good quality, and very heavy. The lands in ray 

 immediate neighborhood are 

 not regarded as favorable to the 

 growth of wheat. I have not 

 yet cleaned my wheat, but ray 

 neighbor, Mr. Wm. M. Miller, 

 who cultivates the same varie- 

 ty, makes, the present year, ten 

 bushels from one seeded, on 

 thin land, without guano or any 

 other fertilizer, which I regard 

 as a very good yield. I regard 

 it as a hardy, good-branching 

 wheat, the only objection to it 

 being its liability to injury from 

 spring frosts, on account of its 

 forwardness. You ask if it is 

 not the same as the old Red 

 May Avheat. I am decidedly 

 of opinion it is not. It has a 

 stronger straw, branches more, 

 grows taller, and ripens earlier, 

 than the May. Notwithstand- 

 ing its liability to injury from 

 spring frosts, I think this ob- 

 jection more than counterbal- 

 anced by its exemption from the 

 ravages of joint-worm, chinch- 

 bug, «&c., the injury resulting 

 from these causes to this variety 

 in my neighborhood being 

 scarcely perceptible, while all 

 other vai-ieties have been much 

 injured, and in some mstances 

 almost entirely destroyed. A 

 striking instance of its exemp- 

 tion from injury from these 

 pests is atforded in the crop of 

 my friend and neighbor Mr. 

 Tnos. P. Carter. He obtained 

 of me, last fall, some eigliteen 

 or twenty bushels of wheat of 

 this variety, which he »owed 

 on a tobacco lot; and iran;edi- 

 ately adjoining it, on a part of 

 the same lor, and at the eame 

 time, he sowed the Woodfn or 

 Polish wheat. The Connor was entirely exempt 

 from the ravages of the joint-worm, while th« 



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