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of interest connected with the cultivation of this extraor^.; 

 binary yield. I have but a word to add about the meas- 

 urement. 



The acre was within two hundred yards of my barn,- 

 The committee assembled early in the morning and the 

 corn was broken in, hauled up and measured in the pres- 

 ence of one or more of the committee, who were all well 

 known citizens. The measurement was by barrels, one or 

 more (three I believe, was the exact number,) were taken 

 at hazard, the contents shelled and jneasured. The aver- 

 age was then multipled by the number of barrels, and the 

 result obtained. 



I wish much that I could find the report of the commit- 

 tee published by the Society of that date; it explained all 

 this I believe, and stated that the committee would be 

 willing to buy or sell by the same measurement. It was 

 not uninteresting at the time to know, that a friend who 

 had walked through the corn a few days before, by count- 

 ing the ears on several rows had estimated the yield at 213 

 bushels. 



I attribute the success more to timely irrigation, than to • 

 any other cause. 



Yery truly and respectfully yours, 



J. W. Paekee. 



How Dr. Parker Made his Premium, Corn Crop. 



Many of our readers have read in the "Proceedings of 

 the Annual Convention of the South Carolina Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical Society for 1869," the report of the 

 Committee on Corn Culture, of which Dr. J. AV. Parker, 

 of Columbia, was Chairman; but for the benefit of the 

 thousands who have not seen it', as well as to have it here, 

 where it can be referred to at any time, we now re-print it 

 entire. In connection with Dr. Parker's note In our June 

 number, it furnishes a complete history of the wonderful 

 and miich debated premium corn crop^probably the larg- 

 est on record : 



REPORT ON CORN CXTLTURE. 



In performing the duty assigned me by the Agricultural 

 and Mechanical Association; I propose, briefly, to give my 



