336 On Corn and Potatoes, 



planting the corn one foot wider asunder without dimi- 

 nishing the number of plants per acre, as much larger 

 scope will be provided for their roots with the advan- 

 tage of more sun and air. 



The corn and potatoe grounds are now in wheat, 

 sown with rather more than two bushels per acre, after 

 one ploughing commenced in the middle of the potatoe 

 rows (rendered flat by the cleaning harrow) and ending 

 in the middle of the corn ridges on each side, forming 

 beds of eleven feet each from the middle of the water 

 furrows. The execution was easy, and when finished, 

 equal in appearance to any field I have ever seen; it 

 will be sown with grass seeds in the spring, to be mown 

 five years : one exhausting crop immediately following 

 another of the same kind, seems to require an apology 

 or explanation, and not knowing which would suit best, 

 what is offered will be applicable to either ; manuring 

 well for corn has so far secured me a good crop and left 

 the ground clean and rich enough for wheat or barley, 

 of which I have had superior crops free from weeds, and 

 consequently easier and safer harvested, and the land 

 left not too much exhausted for grass seeds. This short 

 round I conceive produces more grain than a longer 

 one would do on a larger breadth of ploughed ground, 

 and leaves more land for grass, which, while it is adding 

 to the revenue of the farm, is daily accumulating riches 

 for future grain crops. 



Yours, &cc. 



John Lorain. 



N. B. Perhaps it will not be known to all who may 

 wi^li to plant potatoes among corn, that the vines of the 



