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Wc had over sixty bushels to the acre.' Copperas water 

 will not preserve corn against the cut-ivorm, which eats off 

 the young plants at or just below the surface of the ground. 

 It has been often asserted, (but we have not known it tested 

 by experiment,) that the kernels of corn from the but-ends 

 of the ears are better for seed than those fiom any other p iit 

 of the ear. It is said that the nearer the seed is taken from 

 the largest end, the larger the product. Others recommend 

 to reject some part of both ends, and plant only seeds taken 

 from the middle. Farther experiments are desirable to as- 

 certain these points. 



' The following table,' says judge Buel, ' exhibits the dif- 

 ference in product of various methods of planting, and serves 

 also to explain the manner in which large crops of this grain 

 have been obtained. I have assumed in the estimate that 

 each stock produces one ear of corn, and that the ears ave- 

 rage one gill of shelled grain. This is estimating the product 

 low; for while I am penning this (October) I find that my 

 largest ears give two gills, and one hundred fair ears half a 

 bushel of shewed corn. The calculation is also predicated on 

 the supposition that there is no deficie^^y in the number of 

 stocks, a contingency pretty sure on my method of planting.^ 



hills. bush. qts. 



1. An acre in hills four feet apart each 



way will produce 



2. The same, three feet by three 



3. The same, two by two and a half feet 



4. The same, in drills at three feet, 



plants six inches apart in the drills 



5. The same in do., two rows in a diill, 



six inches apart, and the plants 

 nine inches, and three feet nine 

 inches from centre of drills, thus : 



. . . . 30,970 120 31 



6. The same in do., three rows in a drill, 

 as above, three feet from centres 

 of drills, thus : 



43,560 170 5 



' The fifth mode I have tried. The ground was highly 



* Planting an extra number of plants and thinning them at the f^rst 

 or second hoeing. 



