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THE farmer’s manual. 
pulled up. If you throw your corn promiscuously 
into (he hill, it generally falls together, and will not 
admit of more than three stalks in a hill, to advantage ; 
but if you ])lace your seed at the distance of 4, 5, or 
6 inches in each hill, you may let 4 or 5 stalks stand to 
advantage ; children can drop your seed-corn, and 
thus save all extra expense. 
I have seen a publication of Mr. Benjamin Fowler, 
of Hartford, in which he states, that he raised 160 
bushels of corn pars, upon 155 rods of ground, dung- 
ed in the hill, at the rate of 6 loads to the acre. The 
one half of this corn was planted at the distance of 
20 inches, and the other half 18 inches distance of the 
hills, with only one kernel in each hill, and the 18 
inch hills did the best. This goes to prove the im- 
portance of separating at some distance, the kernels, 
when planted in the hills at the usual distance. This 
mode of Mr. F'lwler’s, gives only two kernels to the 
hill at the distance of 36 or 40 inches, whereas, by 
placing the kernels at the distance of 4, 6, or 6 inches 
as above, .8 or 4 stalks may be permitted to grow 
witnont interfering with each other, excepting by their 
shade, and if the suckers are removed at the third 
hoeing, (as' was done by Mr. Fowler,) the shading 
would be greatly rcrneilied. 
It must be remembered, that Mr. Fowler rolled his 
seed in plaster, and ashed his corn at the first hoeing. 
Indian corii is an exhausting, expensive crop, and 
deserves every attention that will promote its in- 
crease, especially one that will give 160 bushels of 
ears to the acre. Whenever ashes or plaster arc put 
upon corn at the hoeings, they are found to do best 
when strewed around the hills, in a circle of B or 10 
inches diameter, with the greater quantity near the 
stalks. 
The best seed-corn, together with the best method 
of collecting, or saving it, you will find under Octo- 
ber, the harvest month. 
I have seen some good farmers plant potatoes with 
