230 HARVESTING CORK. 



CORN-FIELDS. 



Nothing in the vegetable kingdom looks richer than 

 a well-cultivated field of corn at this season of the year. 

 Fifty or sixty bushels of rich, heavy grain are often 

 taken from a single acre, and the stover in which it is 

 enveloped, when well preserved, affords a rich repast to 

 neat cattle of all descriptions. 



In passing through fields of corn this season, we often 

 see the blades standing so close to each other that they 

 bear no ears. The worms and the birds did not call 

 for their usual supply, or the tiller neglected his duty. 

 It is well to plant a large quantity of seed when its 

 cost is so trifling as that of corn ; but he who leaves 

 too many stalks in a hill will be sorry for his neglect to 

 root out a part when it is too late to remedy the evil. 



When rows are three and a half feet apart, and hills 

 two feet distant in the row, two stalks of our middle- 

 sized corn are sufficient to remain on the first hoeingv 



HARVESTING CORN. 



As to the best mode of harvesting, we have some 

 hesitation. If we had a field of late corn, and we were 

 in fear of a frost, we should be inclined to cut the 

 whole stalk at bottom and make shocks of the corn, to 

 Stand two or three weeks before harvesting. Fifteen 

 or twenty hills may be put together in one shock, and 

 one should be left standing to support the others which 

 are to be placed around it. One band, or birch withe, 

 will be sufficient for one shock ; and, if well put up, they 

 will stand two or three weeks without racking over. 

 When we wish to cart them home, we throw a whole 

 shock at a time on the cart, and keep the stalks straight. 

 In his way they are more easily husked. 



