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With regard to manure, we think it should be spread and 

 thoroughly intermixed with the soil, with the exception, per- 

 haps, of a little for the hill or drill, to give a quick start. In 

 planting, we believe that arrangement to be best, which 

 distributes the stalks most evenly through the field. To 

 illustrate; suppose one man grows twenty hills to the rod 

 with six stalks to the hill, giving one hundred an,d twenty 

 stalks per rod ; another satisfied with the number of stalks 

 per rod, wishes to distribute them more evenly and still re- 

 tain facilities for easy cultivation, and therefore arranges 

 them in thirty hills with four stalks per hill ; still another 

 equally satisfied with the number, and not fearing a slight 

 increase of labor in the cultivating, so arranges as to have 

 five and a half rows per rod, and the stalks evenly distri- 

 buted in the rows, which, throwing aside the small fraction 

 gives drills three feet apart, and stalks nine inches apart in 

 the drills. We believe the man with thirty hills and four 

 stalks to the hill, will, all other things being equal, obtain a 

 larger crop than the one with twenty hills and six stalks per 

 hill, and the one with drills, a larger crop than the others, 

 although all have the same number of stalks per rod. 



The number of stalks in a given space, should depend 

 upon the habits of the variety, if inclined to grow large and 

 *rank, there should not be as many as if of smaller growth. 



We are more and more convinced that clean cultiva- 

 tion, and entire destruction of all weeds is of the utmost im- 

 portance. 



W. G. WYMAN, Chairman. 



