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for planting corn. We have been particular in noticing the 

 number of hills to the rod, and the quantity each rod produced, 

 intending to select an average of each piece. Below, we give a 

 table showing this, that all may judge for themselves as to the 

 best distances at which to plant corn or potatoes. Our convic- 

 tions are, that 34 or 36 hills to the rod, are about the right 

 number. 



The crop of potatoes throughout the county we consider full 

 an average yield. There were not as many as usual planted, 

 for fear they would again be affected by the rot. We are grati- 

 fied to say, that we did not find any pieces in the south and 

 interior parts of the county affected. In the north part, we 

 found and learned of several pieces ; one, on a reclaimed low 

 meadow, was very badly affected. The land was rather wet, 

 and this was the case wherever we found the potatoes affected 

 on higher land. Last year they were affected on all kinds of 

 soil. The cause and remedy of this very great calamity, many 

 have attempted to explain, but not to the full satisfaction of the 

 public. If ever ascertained, it will be by strict observation. 



Table of Potatoes. 

 Showing the number of hills on the rod, and quantity, and by 



whom raised. 



Walter Richards, Lenox, . 



George Butler, " 



Samuel Goodrich, Stockbridge, 



Joshua Lawton, Great Barrington 



Henry Colt, Pittsfield, 



Levi Bradford, Lanesborough, 



Joshua S. Tillotson, " 



Asahel Sherman, " 



Clement Harrison, Adams, 



Caleb Brown, Williamstown, 



Thomas B. Strong, Pittsfield, 



