ON FARM-YARD MANAGEMENT. 145 



If some substantial mechanic should furnish you 

 with a simple instrument by which you will plant as 

 much corn, in any prepared field, as twenty men will 

 do, is it not worth your while to try it ? If he war- 

 rants the performance of the instrument, you run but 

 little risk, and you stand the chance of taking the lead 

 in an easier and a better mode of planting. 



If it should be objected that we plant but little in 

 New England, let two or three neighboring farmers 

 join and own one. Where six acres of corn are planted, 

 if the instrument will in all probability pay its cost 

 the first season, is it not worth your time to attempt, 

 at least, a better system of planting ? 



Boys and hired men often bury seed too deep : they 

 often cover it with sods and with sorrel. The greatest 

 crops of corn have been grown by those who have 

 taken the trouble to make about eight thousand hills 

 to the acre, instead of four thousand, making the hills 

 about two feet apart in the row. 



In this mode, if your rows are perfectly strait — as 

 they will be, thus planted — you will tend the crop 

 with more ease than you will where you plant by 

 hand. 



You should procure one instrument that will answer 

 for all kinds of seeds, and save the expense of two. 



[From the Albany Centinel.] 



ON FARM- YARD MANAGEMENT. 



In the business of saving manures farmers are equal- 

 ly remiss : the forming of composts, and manufacturing 

 large quantities of manure by mixing the various 

 vegetable matters with top soils, with lime, and with 

 mud, is seldom or ever thought of. 



To save the greatest quantity of manure, and to pre- 

 serve it from losing its strength, it should be protected 

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