.204 Mixed Culture of Corn and Potatoes. 



cubical feet measured in the field, after being settled by 

 the driving one half applied to die corn, the other half to 

 potatoes; to avoid poaching the potatoe rows, the dung 

 assigned them was hauled and dropped on the corn rows, 

 and from thence spread on the potatoes, which were re- 

 gularly placed in holes sunk by an indenting roller, one 

 and three quarter inches below the surface, and covered 

 by the plough securing a depth of loose soil underneath 

 as well as the light covering of dung and soil above ; 

 after this the corn rows were well pulverized with a 

 hoe harrow, when the dung was hauled and spread, they 

 were ridged up and the sides of the ridges harrowed, and 

 the tops flattened with a harrow without tines the holes 

 made with an indenting roller two and a half inches 

 deep, in which the corn was planted and covered with 

 hand hoes ; the potatoes are generally up with a rich 

 broad leaf and strong stem, most of them harrowed with 

 a folding harrow, an excellent tool, cleaning and pulve- 

 rising the soil quite up to the stems of the plants ; the 



I wait the result of such bold and heavy dunging on ivhectt. 

 It is far beyond any thing I have known. I never could get 

 wheat to stand till it came to the sickle, or with heads filled, 

 or clear from smut or other diseases, after half the quantity 

 of dung menlioned by Mr. Lorain was applied. But as my 

 manure (dung) is always moderately fermented and putrefied, 

 I cannot calculate what is the proportion of strength, or quan- 

 tity, compared to Mr. Lorain^ s muck ; as I suppose it to be. 



If ever fresh dung, applied in any thing like such quan- 

 tities, succeeds, with a wheat crop ; it must be after summer 

 crops have subdued its bad qualities, and effects. 



R. P. 



