THE farmer’s manual. 
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JUNE. 
Your whole business of Spring husbandry, -both in 
the field and the garden, is now closed, and your 
fences are all in good repair. You will now enter 
with spirit upon the culture of the Potatoe. You 
have doubtless planted a good supply for the table 
and early feeding ; and the time is now come when 
you have an opportunity to enter extensively upon 
the culture of this most valuable root, as a part of 
your field husbandry, for the use of stock and the 
“ jVf. Hayden's Statement. 
‘ The land upon which the crop was raised, had been occupied se- 
veral years as a oieadovv, is of a flat surface, was ploughed first in 
October, 1B18; in the spring following, harrowed, and soon after 
ploughed and harrowed — then furroweil ; the furrows being about 2 
feet 3 inches apart. The seed was prci)arcd by steeping it in a strong 
lye made of hog manure, for 24 hours ; after which, the lye was 
drained off, and I added to half a bushel of seed, a half peck of plas- 
ter — stirring it until the corn was covered with plaster. The seed 
was then suffered to sUind until it had grown an inch, when 1 planted 
in single kernels promiscuously at tile bottom of the furrows, and then 
filled the furrows about half full of barn-yard manure, to which had 
been added aboutfive loads ofhogmanuru. In weeding time, I pull- 
ed out many stalk?, lea\ ing those remaining about seven inches apart, 
It was succoured once, and hoed three times.’ 
“ .Mr. Brightman's Statement. 
‘ The ground is clayey loam, and had been many years in meadow. 
.About the middle of April it wa.s ploughed very shallow, just cut- 
ting through the sward, I then carried on to about an acre and a 
quarter, thirty waggon loads of good barn-yard manure, and ten 
waggon loads of chip manure, thou gave it a deep ploughing .and 
harrowed it down. The whole of tlie ploughing was 4 times, and 
harrowing was performed as often. About the middle of May, I dis- 
posed the laud into ridge.s about 3 feet apart. After levelling the 
ridges with the hoe, I planted tlie corn on the ridges at the distance 
of ei.ght inches per grain apart, it was hoed in the usual manner 3 
times. Previous to hoeing the last time, the succours were all taken 
off, immediately following with the hoe, and covering up the wound- 
ed stalks, which I think was of essential service to the crop by pre-. 
venting them from emitting their juice. The corn that 1 planted was 
the small 8 rowed white corn, intermixed in a slight degree wiUs the 
yellow.’ ” 
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