(iC66) 
The manner of Planting is ir>PvOws, at equal diHance every way, a- 
bout 5. or 6Sect. They open the Earth with an Howe,taking away the 
furface 3. or 4. inches deep,and the bredth ofthe Howe and fo throw 
in 4. or 5. Granes, a little dilhnt one from arother, and cover them 
with Earth. If two or three grow, it may do well. For fome of them 
are ufually de(hoyed by Birds, or Moufe-Squirrtls. 
The Corn grown up an hands length,they cut up the weeds^and loo- 
fen the Earth, about it, with a broad Howe : repeating this labour, as 
the Weeds grow. When the Stalic begins to grow high, they draw a 
little Earth about it : and upon the putting forth of the Eare, fo much, 
as to make a h'ttle Hill, like Hop-Hill. After this, they have no other 
bufinefsabout it,till Harvcft. 
After 'fisgather'd^it muft, except laid very thin^be prefently Grip- 
ped from the Husks j other wife it will heat, grow mouldy, and fome- 
times fprouf. The common way fwhich they call Tracing) isfo 
weave the Ears together in long Traces by fome parts of the Husk 
left thereon. Thefe Traces they hang upon Stages or other Bear- 
ers within dcors, or without', for, hung in that manner, (hey will 
keep good and fweet all the Winter after, though expofed to all wea- 
thers. 
The Natives commonly Threlb it as they gather if, dry it well on 
Mats in the Sun, and then beftow it in holes in the Ground (which are 
their Barns) well lined with withered Grafs and Matts, and then co- 
vered with the like, and over all with Earth ; and fo its kept very well, 
till they ufeit. 
The Eytglifh have now taken to a better way of Planting by the help 
ofthe Plough ; in this manner s In the Planting time they Plough (in- 
,gle Furrows through the whole Fieldjabout ^.feet diftant, more or lefs, 
as they fee convenient. To thefe,they Plough others a crofs at the fame 
di(hnce. Where thefe meet they throw in the Corn, and cover it either 
with the Howe,or by running another Furrow with the Plough. When 
the Weeds begin to overtop the Cornjthen they Plough over the reft of 
the field between the Planted Furrows.and fo turn in the Weeds. This 
is repeated once, when they begin to Hill the Corn with theHowci 
and fo the Ground is better loofened than with the Howe, and the 
*Roots of the Corn have more liberty to fpread. Where any Weeds 
cfcape the Plough, they ufe the Howe. 
Where the Ground is bad or worn out,the Indians ufed to put two or 
three of the forementioned Fjfhes, under or adjacent to each Corn-hill, 
whereby they had many times a Crop double to what the Ground would 
cthcrwife have produced. 
The Englijh hive kaiificd the like Husbandry, where thefe Aloofes 
corneup in great plenty, or where they are near the Fi(hing-ftages ; ' 
having thtre the Heads and Garbage of Cod-filh in abundance, at 
«oxharge but the fetching. The 
