MtPEIilMEJ^TS WITH IJ^DMJ^T COJUS\ 



Mr. Tristram Little (to whom the first premium was granted) 

 states his comparative experiments of planting in hills and in 

 double continued rows, in the following manner. 



He selected two acres of about the same quality, the soil a 

 dark clay mould, which in 1819 received four cords of manure 

 to the acre, were planted with potatoes, and yielded, per acre, 

 about two hundred and eighty bushels. 



In May, 1820, he ploughed the whole ahont nine inches deep, 

 and about the middle of that month began to plant his corn. 

 On one acre he opened double furrows two feet apart, leaving 

 a space of five feet between the double furrows. In these fur- 

 rows he strewed ten cords of manure, and with a back furrow 

 to each, covered the same. He then dropped his corn, the 

 grains eight inches apart ; and then, by turning another furrow, 

 covered the corn ; which was thus left in double rows two it^t 

 apart. 



The other acre he planted in hills, equally distant each way, 

 making twenty-six hundred hills in all ; which gave 16f square 

 feet to each hill — that is, the hills were a fraction more than 

 four feet apart. To this acre he applied six cords of manure, 

 of the same quality with that used on the other acre. 



About the 21st of October he finished harvesting his crop. 

 The produce in favour of the hills was as 20 to 19 in the double 

 rows. He remarks, that when corn is thus planted in continued 

 rows, these should run north and south, [that the sun may shine 

 equally on both sides.] His run east and west : and he thinks 

 the north row was not so good as the south, by one third part. 



The acre planted in hills received sixteen days labour, inclu- 

 ding the team : the acre in double rows, two days more. 



The Messrs. Hathaways, to whom the second premium wa« 

 awarded, state, that their field was-, in 1817, a common rough pas- 

 ture— was broken up in 1818, planted with Indian corn, with a 

 common quantity of manure — and yielded a large crop. In 

 1819, about the usual quantity of manure from privies wr» 

 ploughed in, and corn planted. It yielded 80 bushels to the 

 acre. In 1820, twenty cart bodies full of the same kind of ma- 



