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FROM THE HAMPSHmE GAZETTE. 



On planting Corn. By Joseph Lyman, 

 Referred to, page 46 of Memoirs. 



Mr. Butler, 



Having heard of the advantages to be derived 

 from planting and cultivating Indian corn in a manner 

 different from the one commonly practised, I determin- 

 ed, for my own satisfaction to make the experiment. I 

 chose a field which the year before was in grass, and 

 was turned up and cultivated without any manure for 

 raising potatoes. When these were gathered,, and the 

 vines cleared off, the ground was ploughed. Last spring 

 I ordered 45 sack loads of manure, as are contained in 

 the body of a cart, to be carried on. The manure was 

 composted, made chiefly from potatoe tops, corn stalks, 

 and other vegetables ; and might perhaps be nearly 

 equal to 30 loads of common barn yard manure. When 

 spread equally over the field, it was ploughed again, and 

 fitted by the seed harrow for planting. I then divided 

 the field into three equal parts. One third was planted 

 in hills two feet distant each way, three grains in a hill. 

 One third was planted at the common distance of three 

 and a half feet between the hills, three grains in a hill. 

 The other third was planted as our farmers usually plant, 

 three and a half feet between the rows and six feet be- 

 tween the hiils, about five or six grains in a hill. The 

 ^eed was poor, so that more than cne in three grains 

 failed. My corn came up very unevenly, some hills hav- 



