THE FARM. 



MAIZE or INDIAN CORN, 



It is generally sown in rows four feet apart, the 

 hills being three feet apart in the rows, into which 

 five or six seeds are placed at a depth of one and a-balf 

 or two inches. The plants are ultimately thinned out 

 to three in a cluster. Let the weeds be kept down, 

 lest they smother the young plants, drawing them 

 towards the corn hills, but not too close until the 

 second cleaning, when the com is " hilled up." The 

 crop is much improved by two or three plonghings 

 between the rows during its growth, even so near as to 



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tear out part of the roots. It should always be cleaned 

 and earthed up by the light one-horse plough, and. if 

 the rows are up and down hill or a sideling fall, the 

 furrows will answer for surface drains in case of long- 

 continued rains. 



Another method is to grow it in rows four feet apart, 

 dropping the seed into drills two inches deep, at dis- 

 tances of eight inches apart. This practice has only 

 been tried by a few cultivators, but the result is stated 

 to be satisfactory. 



A full crop is from fifty to eighty bushels ; an average 

 crop not more than forty bushels ; and it takes about 

 four months to mature. 



