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were close set to the ear : indeed the difference was so 

 manifest at the time this row was cut off, that it alone 

 convinced me, that necessity had urged a measure ex- 

 tensively detrimental to the crop, and this in direct op- 

 position to former practice founded on attentive obser- 

 vation, that fodder was better saved with one half the 

 expense by cutting off than by topping and stripping 

 the corn, while the ears appeared to derive considerable 

 advantage from the plants remaining entire. 



The potatoes were once earthed up with the plough, 

 after which the w^eeds likely to out top them were re- 

 moved by the hand, and they would have been luxuriant 

 had it been sufficiently considered that nature designed 

 them to grow under the ground^ for the high planting 

 and dry weather while they were fruiting reduced their 

 usual size considerably. 



The ground where these crops grew measured 13 

 acres, 24 3-4 perches exactly : one half appropriated to 

 the corn and the other half to the potatoes. 



Produce 817 bushels of shelled corn, and 1730 bush, 

 els of potatoes. 



This forms an average of 263 bushels of potatoes, and 

 124 bushels of shelled corn per acre, if I may be per- 

 mitted to assign to each the ground they occupied. 



It may appear strange that after growing such a crop 

 of corn, the details of the injuries it sustained should be 

 so lengthy, but it should be remembered that it was an 

 experiment projected on an opinion, that close planting 

 on well manured ridges, sufficiently distant from each 

 other to give full scope for sun and air, would produce 

 as much corn on each acre and save half the land for 

 other crops, as could be produced if the whole ground 



