50 On Planting Corn. 



call five days work on an acre : the eighteen inch, ele- 

 ven days ; and the two feet corn, fifteen days on an acre. 

 The two feet corn, besides exceeding in quaUty, has 

 nearly twenty bushels more than the common planting : 

 the greater expense is ten days work, or ten bushels of 

 corn, by which means we make a clear saving of ten 

 bushels per acre. 



In the eighteen inch planting, we make a saving of 

 seven bushels over the common mode. The two feet 

 planting exceeds the eighteen inch after allowing for la- 

 bour, three bushels. 



In these new modes of planting by suckering your 

 corn, you turn the strength of your soil from the produc- 

 tion of barren stalks to the production of solid grain : 

 your lands yield gi'eater profit : your work is brought 

 into a narrow compass, and you have your other fields 

 without any loss, left in a state to recruit, and be pre- 

 pared for a future abundant harvest. The experiment 

 was made upon easy land, free from stone. I conjectur- 

 ed that the advantages would be still greater upon hard 

 strong land, where the common mode of cultivation is 

 more expensive. 



Joseph Lyman. 



Hatfield, Nov. 1, 1796. 



