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THE farmer’s MANOAL. 
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heads with a pliable stalk ; this will exclude the rains, 
which otherwise would damage, your corn. This 
corn will be ripe at the usual time, without the least 
diminution in its colour, weight or value : but in the 
opinion of some of the best farmers, (who are in the 
steady practice of this mode from choice,) with an 
increased value to the grain. The increa.sed quan- 
tity and value of your stalks, will, richly pay the ex- 
pense ; you may in this way bring forward the sow- 
ing of your winter grain, 2, 3, or 4 weeks, which will 
again at harvest repay the expense of clearing your 
corn-fields. If you house your corn-stacks before 
you husk your corn, the pitching will be heavy, and 
your bundles often break, and your places for hous- 
ing, be difiicult and inconvenient, and often exposed 
to your cattle ; therefore, husk your corn on the field, 
and empty your baskets into your cart as you husk, 
always remembering to leave the husk upon the 
stalk, by breaking off the cob ; these will again re[)ay 
your expense, in feeding. The difference in the 
mode of husking, will at first be considerable ; but 
a little practice will soon remove this, and render 
them equal. It is of high importance for every 
farmer, to know every mode of culture, that will af- 
ford him successful advantage in managing his farm, 
and in this point of view, this does not rank as one of 
the least. If you plant the Canada corn, (so. called,) 
it will, by early ripening, bring forward your sowing 
10 or 15 days earlier than the great tucket, or com- 
mon corn, with crops of equal, if not of superior va- 
lue. which is also of .some importance. 
Enter with spirit upon your) potatoe fallows; dig, 
house, or market, with all the help you can muster. 
One man c.an throw out of the hill, with a hook-fork, 
as many as 5 or 6 hands can pick up and cart ; chil- 
dren ran be of great use in gathering your potatoes. 
Clear your poorest lands lii'st, and sow your rye 
upon them in the first week of September, if possi- 
ble ; say one bushel to the acre : your rich grounds 
