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As may be seen by turning to the first cited page of said report, 

 I set forth there, " some striking advantages in the culture of the 

 common kind of artichoke," and stated I was about to try the cul- 

 ture of the Tennessee kind, new in this region, and said to be of ex- 

 traordinary product. I did so, with these also some others for seed, 

 that came from the State of Georgia, which I learned were also the 

 Jerusalem; and I found the two last named identical, or of like quali- 

 ties, and of wonderful yield. By reading the cited extract in said 

 report, and being reminded I had promised to communicate to the 

 farming public the result of my experiment with this kind of arti*- 

 choke, and for the sake of method, I choose to write under the divi- 

 sions named. 



But ere pursuing them directly, I will describe the Jerusalem, and 

 my manner of their culture, and gathering. The tubers of this sort 

 are long and smooth, and thus unlike the common, which are oval 

 and rough; though the former are not so large as the latter. The 

 Jerusalem are not remarkable for size, (looking like small sweet po- 

 tatoes,) but for multitudes, as the product is so good as to fill the 

 ground in every direction where planted. My rales of product per 

 acre on different lots, as nigh as I could ascertain by detached pla- 

 ces dug, were from eight to twelve hundred bushels per acre. I 

 planted rows of the common and Jerusalem, side by side, to test the 

 comparative yield, dug twenty feet in a row of each kind. The pro- 

 duct was, six quarts of the common, and a bushel and a half and 

 six quarts of the Jerusalem; indicating that in drills three feet apart 

 and stocks a foot in the drill, the product of the common would be 

 short of 150 bushels per acre, and the Jerusalem upwards of 1,200 

 bushels. The former, at a critical time of growth, were injured by 

 a dry spell, causing some of their leaves to fade; but all the leaves 

 of the latter continued green through the season. I consider the 

 most eligible distance to plant the Jerusalem is about 4 feet drills, 

 and small pieces of the tubers put twelve inches or more in the 

 drills, and the ground to be kept clean and loose till the plants shade 

 it well, which they soon do. Less work is necessary for artichokes 

 than corn. 



My practice of gathering the Jerusalem artichoke is to plow flush 

 the ground, and small hands to follow the plow to pick up all the 

 tubers made visible, while the balance left, (one half perhaps) was 

 left to be rooted for by swine. But designing brevity, I must at 

 once proceed to the heads before named. And 



