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didiiot find, at "weeding," one liill with less than two blades 

 in it, while many of ray neighbors were obliged to replant large 

 portions of theirs. 



The day before " weeding " I scattered a handful of un- 

 leached ashes around each hill, and at the second hoeing gave 

 it another dressing of ashes. It was hoed three times, the 

 stalks cut in September, as is our custom, and the corn har- 

 vested on the 10th of October. The yield was sixty-one bushel- 

 baskets full of good sound corn, and four of " pig-corn." I 

 estimate two bushels of ears as equal to one of shelled corn, 

 which, counting the " pig corn," makes thirty-two and one-half 

 bushels of corn on three-quarters of an acre. 



The other quarter of an acre was planted on the lightest 

 laud I have. It was in potatoes last year, and yielded hardly 

 enough for seed. 



On this lot I spread fifteen loads of manure, and ploughed 

 in as shallow as possible. Furrowed it three and one-half by 

 four feet ; put five loads of manure in the hill, and planted, on 

 the 20th of May, with the " twelve-rowed New Hampshire 

 yellow," from seed raised by Hon. Simon Brown, of Concord. 



This piece also received two dressings of ashes, was hoed 

 three times, and harvested on the 2d day of October. The yield 

 was twenty-one baskets of sound corn, and one and one-half of 

 " pig corn." This was, you perceive, planted seven days later, 

 on poorer laud, if such a thing were possible ; harvested eight 

 days earlier, and was more fully ripe ivhen harvested than the 

 otlicr. 



!My preference, noio, is for the " New Hampshire twelve- 

 rowed yellow," believing that, with it, we may, almost to a 

 certainty, escape the " frosts" at either end of the season. 



On one-fourth of an acre of high light pasture land, with 

 ten loads of manure spread and " harrowed in," with plaster 

 and ashes in the hill, I raised twenty-eight bushels of potatoes. 



On a piece of land, containing one hundred and fifty-two 

 rods, that had been in corn two years, I sowed, on the 25th of 

 May, two bushels of barley. One corner of the field (about 

 fifteen rods) was so wet that the seed did not come up. It 

 was cut the first week in August, yielding twenty-one bushels 

 of grain, and, by estimate, one-half ton of straw. 



