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XXL. An Account of 2 m. See: Sor. raifing Indian Corn. 
dit poor Land, In a. Letter from JosePH Malis 
Bf. to the. Reverend Joux. ERAR Ei Pi de Ae: i a alte 
- vs Mp en ELS 26, 9852 
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! THILE E refided. in s ker sting I found it was the 
vy opinion of the farmers, that whoever raifed. Indian. corn 
pia > for it, in labour, thanit was worth : that the land 
mutt Ee ftrong, highly. manured, .well.plowed eid hoed, or it 
would not produce-a-crop half equal in value to the ipee 
betowed upon it: that the land, in a.very,few years, would 
be worn out, and mutt lie. ufelels aamumber of yer press 
wards to recover its. fertility... 
“Tó convince them of. their error, I purchaled, of one of my 
Tibii, a piece of land which he affirmed was worn out, 
and unfit to produce any crop of any kind. The land was dry, 
and not a ftone in it; the foil was very light and fhallow, in- 
clining to fand... The. ground | was. over-run..with .briars and 
weeds, called. Sz. Ea with here and there a iui of. 
coarfe wild grafs: =- ^ 
“Upon this piece of ardoak 1 nda the.following experiment, 
Inthe firft place I procured a plough, made under my own dis 
rection, with a fharp coulter, and a fhare about a fourth part of 
-the fize and weight of common plough-fhares ; and with a fur- 
-ow-board, on a-new conftru&ion, that followed the coulter 
edge-wife, turning the furrow over in rather a fpiral form. With 
this plough, which required only the ftrength of a fingle horfe, 
a furrow was ploughed: throngh the whole length of my field, 
