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On this soil, after a crop of potatoes, in the fall, I cast on 18 or 

 20 loads uf barn yard manure, (fifty bushels to the load) spread it 

 broadcast and plough it in. From the beginning to the middle of 

 May tbllowing, harrow the ground well, and add thirty loads of green 

 unfermented stable manure made during the winter, and immediately 

 plough it in sufficiently deep to be well covered. By this process 

 the coat of fine manure, applied the fall previous, becomes well in- 

 corporated with the soil, and gives the young corn plants a rapid 

 start, while the coarse manure applied in the spring lends its aid in 

 filling out the ears. From the 20th to the 25th of May, the ground 

 is again well harrowed, and shortly after, planted. The variety of 

 corn I employ (which sometimes bears my name) was produced by 

 cultivatimg for successive years, selected ears of the Northern eight 

 rowed yellow, corn, with cobs having small butt ends, of good length 

 and uniform size, ths second ripe in the field — and taken from stalks 

 hearing more than two ears each stalk. The grains of this corn are 

 large and the cobs small — the ears .usually from ten to thirteen inches 

 in length. The largest crop I have raised is one hundred and thirty 

 six bushels of shelled corn per acre' — weighing in the ear 9,420 

 bbls., or 70 lbs. to each bushel, including the cob, and when shelled 

 50 lbs. a bushel. I plant my corn in hills (four kernels to each) 

 three feet apart one way, and two the other, reducing the number in 

 each hill to three plants. The first hoeing is neatly done, when the 

 plants are about three inches high. In July I dress the hill by a 

 second and third hoeing, lightly moving the surface of the soil, with- 

 out making any mould or hill — leaving the ground quite level and 

 smooth. Early in September, or as soon as the ears are completely 

 formed, and their silks begin to dry up and wither, I top the corn for 

 winter fodder. Towards the end of that month the crop is usually 

 harvested, immediately after husked and stored on the ear in the 

 granary until required for the market or the mill. 



Note. — This variety of corn, from the high degree of estimate in 

 which it grows, appears to be adapted to all the New England States, 

 New York, New Jersey, a portion of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, 

 Illinois, Canada West, Iowa, Oregon, &c. 



John W. Chambers, Clerk of the Institute, then shelled fire ears 

 of this Broum corn, about ten inches long each, in presence of the 

 club, and the grains from them just filled a quart measure. 



The Chairman — It is a practice among farmers, or some of them, 

 to turn the sod of their fields in the spring and then plant on it. 



