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ed corn in drills. One third of the piece \vas sowed early in 

 May, one third late in May, and one third June 10th. Here I 

 cut, daily, from the first of August to the middle of September, 

 a cart full of stalks, in all I think not less than 8 tons. A? soon 

 as the crop was all removed 1 sowed grass seed upon this ground 

 which soon vegetated. 



Sowing. This year I sowed with oats about 3^ acres. In 

 one piece there was a little more than If acres. Half of this 

 field was broken up in October, 1833. In April, 1834, this 

 half had 4 cords of manure put upon it, and was then ploughed 

 with a horse across the furrows. The other half had 4 cords of 

 manure spread upon it, and was immediately broken up, turning 

 the manure under the sod. The whole was harrowed, furrow- 

 ed 3i feet apart each way, and it then received nine cords of 

 manure in the hill. It yielded not far from 75 bushels of corn 

 to the acre. In the spring of 1835 I split the hills with a horse ; 

 ploughed with a horse lengthwise the original furrows, without 

 disturbing the sod ; harrowed ; sowed, oats 3^^ bushels, clover 

 6 lbs., herd's grass 1^ peck, red top 3 pecks, per acre ; harrow- 

 ed the seed in and then rolled. The oats were so beaten down 

 by rain that I was obliged to cut them before they were fully 

 ripe ; it was difficult, on this account, to thresh them clean — 

 much was necessarily left on the straw. I obtained only 52.^ 

 bushels. Probably I should have had about 65 bushels, liad 

 they ripened well. 



Another acre on which I growed oats has received peculiar 

 treatment. Near the end of June, last year, (1834) I mowed 

 it. It then was bound out and yielded only 13 or 14 cwt. of 

 hay. Early in July one third of it was turned over with the 

 plough, and on the 4th was harrowed lengthwise the furrows, 

 was furrowed, making drills 4 feet apart. In these drills I put 

 1|- cords of manure, and sowed ccrn to be cut for fodder — the 

 crop was good. The remaining two thirds were turned up 

 about the middle of July, prepared like the first, dressed with 

 two cords of manure in the drills, and sowed soon after with 

 turnips — the crop was about 150 bushels. In the spring of 

 1835 I spread on the acre one cord of stable manure mixed 



