a Patch of Maize at Baysmater. 



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stirring the ground full 4 in. deep. Three days after this last 

 hoeing I landed the corn up, and in the middle of August 

 topped it, cutting off the male blossom. {Jig. 13. b) I have 

 now gathered it; and from 

 the seven rows, each 38 ft. 

 long, the produce is 1156 

 good ears, and 839 de- 

 fective ones, which, had it 

 been a fine summer, would 



all have been good. I 

 have rubbed out the corn 

 of seventeen ears, not one 

 of which was what I call a 

 fine ear, and the produce 

 is a quart of clear corn ; 

 therefore the 1156 good 

 ears produce 2 bushels and 

 half a peck for 3^ rods of 

 ground, or 102 bushels per 

 acre. The defective ears, 

 being only half ripe or very 

 small, I do not include in 

 my calculation. 



Mr. Cobbett having seen 

 my crop just afteivthe last 

 hoeing, stated in his Regis- 

 ter that it was the finest he 

 had seen ; but, not to over- 

 rate the produce, say that it 

 takes eighteen ears to make 

 one quart of corn : then 

 there is 96 bushels per acre. 



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in point 



figured one of the lat- 

 ter {fig. 17.), sent us 

 last year (Vol. V. 

 p. 211.) by Messrs. 

 Thorburn of New 

 York, to the same 

 scale as the ear of Mr. 

 Greig's plant, {fig. 

 IS. o) We have also 

 given a figure (fig. , 

 14.), to the same scale jgsPlli 

 as fig. 13. of the ave- 

 rage of a row of plants 

 raised in our garden 

 from this large variety ; 



but which plants, though they had every advantage 

 of culture, did not mature a single ear. By comparing the two 



