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Farther Remarks on Mixed Crops of Corn and 

 Potatoes. 



Read January, 1811. 



Tackoney, I3th December, 1810. 



Sir, 



I resume the detail of my mixed crop of corn and 

 potatoes, commencing where I left off the 21st May 

 last. — The corn was earthed up once with the plough, 

 and hand hoes immediately followed after it ; in this 

 state it continued until it again became necessary to 

 subdue the weeds, at which time the ridges were hand 

 hoed barely deep enough to effect that purpose ; it was 

 suckered three times, twice would have been sufficient, 

 had not re-planting occasioned great irregularity in the 

 growth ; the re-planted part was dressed with gypsum 

 soon after it was up, hoping this would assist it to con- 

 tend with the roots and shade of that which had taken 

 the lead ; but it produced no perceptible advantage, op- 

 pressed by its powerful neighbours, it became feeble, 

 useless, and actually injurious (except in places where 

 the first planting had altogether failed) in a space suffi- 

 cient to prevent injury from its roots and shade, and 

 the extensive failure in the original planting required 

 one fourth as much seed as w^as planted at first, from 

 which I infer an immense loss in the crop. When the 

 com was from 5 to 7 feet high, a tremendous storm le- 

 velled it to the ground; had it been left in the hands of 

 nature, the injury would have been inconsiderable, but 



