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Watch your corn in your corn-lofts, turn it often, 
that it may dry even, and not mould, especially if the 
weather is warm and rainy ; bin up your first corn, in 
narrow bins, as fast as it will answer with safety, to 
give room for your late husking ; this valuable crop 
requires nice attention ; select the fairest and ripest 
ears, as you arc husking, for your seed-corn, particu- 
larly those with the smallest cob, and best filled out 
at the ends. Now is the time to improve your next 
crop. By pure seed, and by selecting the earliest, or 
the ripest, you may bring forward your after crops 
10, 15, or 20 days ; this will secure your Indian-corn 
against early frosts, and ought not to be neglected; 
or will enable you to cut up by the bottoms, as before 
observed, 10, 15, or 20 days earlier, and thus im- 
prove youi' late sowing*. 
It is of the highest advantage to the farmer, not 
only to know how to cultivate in the best manner, 
each particular crop separately, but how to combine 
this cultivation with the improvement of other crops, 
so as to be able to make the greatest advantage from 
the seasons of seed-time and harvest. 
The same is as true with the seed of your potatoes, 
and all other crop.s, as of your Indian-corn, and may 
as easily be attended to, and improved, and to as good 
advantage. _ _ ^ 
Get your (lax all in from rotting, in the coul^ ot 
this month, if possible, and house it snug and dry ; 
secure your hemp, as fast as it will answer, before 
November ; the season becomes critical for such 
crops. Finish making and marketing your cider, and 
place such casks as you may reserve for domestic 
* This improveDieut majrbe extenJed still further ; you may se- 
lect your scod-corti from your field, taking the ripest ears, at dill'er- 
ent stages of your corn, (beginning early iu September,) and from 
the most thrifty stalks ; this will bring forward your next crop ; but 
if you select your seed from such stalks as produce two or more ears, 
y»u may, by pursuing this practice, double, or treide your quantity 
ef com upon the same grounds, with the same tillage. 
