appearance, the length and fulness of the ear, and its 

 twelve rows recommend it to the eye, and it tells up 

 well in the basket ; but there is another measure — 

 in the half bushel it is found wanting; the cob heap 

 takes too large a share. The eight-rowed corns, 

 of the largest kernel that will mature in our cli- 

 mate, arc to be preferred. One of this description, 

 under good cultivation, has not failed with us, in any 

 one of the last six years, to give a growth of at least 

 sixty bushels to the acre, and has gone as high as nine- 

 ty-five. The proper name of this is not known, but 

 in all respects, excepting color, it is like a variety of 

 the Parker corn which I have seen. The Touscarou- 

 ra has been considered as a garden corn merely. But 

 the luxuriant growth of a small patch of it last year, 

 led to a belief that it might be found profitable in the 

 field ; and I am anticipating a favorable result of an 

 experiment with it. Here is a kernel that yields 

 flour scarcely inferior in whiteness, softness, and fla- 

 vor to the Genesee ; and by the side of which the 

 kernel of most of our corns is but a pigmy. I doubt 

 not that on warm and good soils it will stand nearly 

 at the head of corns in productiveness. Accounts 

 are coming to us of a corn called the " Brown," which 

 in the high latitude of N. Hampshire is made to yield 

 an hundred, an hundred and thirty-six, even an hun- 

 dred and forty-seven bushels to the acre. Doing so 

 well at the north of us, I hope that some of our far- 

 mers will be induced to see how it will thrive in our 

 Essex soil. 



Seed sometimes fails to germinate; worms and 

 birds often make sad havoc in our fields. To guard 



