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THE farmer’s manual. 
MAY. 
Your Sprin!? grains are now all sown, or about 
closing; and your Indian-corn now claims -your first 
attention, f have before remarked; that corn gene- 
rally has been found to'^do best when planted upon 
one-bout ridges, with a' deep ploughing, either upon 
long dung spread at large, before ploughing, or upon 
yard, compost, stable, or hog dung, put in the hill, 
(say one shovel full to th§ hill,) and the corn horsc- 
hoed between the ridges, and hand hoed upon the 
ridges, and thus preserving the ridges unbroken 
through the season. As this mode is seldom practis- 
ed', being an innovation upon the ancient cuslom, I a ill 
cite a few reports to the Agricultural Society of Ni'w- 
Haven County, to show the practical correctness of 
my remarks. 
INDIAN-CORN. 
Mr. Mallet, of Milford. 
“ When 1 plough my land for Indian-corn, I always 
lay it in ridges, whether it be sward or mellow, and 
plough the balks up to the ridges, and those ridges I 
never disturb by cross ploughing, while my corn is 
upon the land. I am fully convinced by my own ex- 
perience, and that of almost all my neighbours, who 
pursue the same method, that one fifth more corn, at 
least, will be raised in this manner than in any other 
upon the same land.” 
Mr. Holbrook, of Derby. 
“ Upon experiment, I find the method of ploughing 
land for Indian-corn, heretofore recommended to the 
Society by Mr. Mallet, to be the best J pursue. 1 lay 
all my land, of every kind, in ridges, when 1 intend 
it for Indian-corn, and plough the balks clean, lay 
them to the ridges, before planting; I never disturb 
those ridges by cross ploughing. Any person can 
see by looking at the part of my field which I have 
