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eral years' experience that tliis is a profitable mode of planting, 

 provided you have the same nmnber of stocks as if the seed Avere 

 planted in hills. The rows nm north and south, three and a half 

 feet apart. I cut out the suckers as food for coavs. I have not 

 found that cutting the suckers affects the crop materially, unless 

 the corn is very stout, and then it improves the crop by letting in 

 more sun. Some farmers imagine that Avhen the sucker is fully 

 grown, its nutriment returns to the main stock, and so to the ear. 

 No experiment has satisfactorily proved this point, any more than 

 that the nutriment which supported a limb, returns to the trunk 

 when the Umb has decayed. Three fifths of the acre were in corn 

 last year, the remainder in peas and potatoes. That part which 

 Avas in corn did as well this year as last. The Avhole was ploughed 

 in the spring. I spread and ploughed in six cords of common 

 barn-yard manure, made chiefly by coavs. Then harroAved. After 

 a fcAv days ploughed again, and let it remain in the fui-row, that it 

 might lie more loose than it would be if harroAved after the last 

 jiloughing. I put four cords of manure in the drills, — two of 

 piggery manure and tAvo of barn-yard mixed together by shovel- 

 ling over tAvo or three times. Planted on the 18th and 20th of 

 May, leaAing the soil as Hght as possible over the seed. The seed 

 Avas soaked three days, and if the corn was sprouted a little, so 

 much the better. It would get up the sooner. Hoed twice, — 

 the first time I ploughed, — the last time I only Avent through Avith 

 the hoe. I cut the suckers soon after the silk appeared, and the 

 stalks after the corn turned hard. The corn Avas the vaiiety 

 called smutty white. 



Expenses. 



Interest on cost of land. 

 Taxes, ..... 

 Manure, two thirds exhausted, . 

 Seed, ..... 

 Drawing and spreading manure, 

 Ploughing and manuring in drills, 

 Planting and hoeing, eight days, . 

 Cutting suckers and stalks. 

 Husking and getting in fodder, 



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$76.92 



