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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
After the land has been thoroughly cultivated, and pulver¬ 
ized, making a perfect garden bed of it, then roll it, and mark 
it off into squares, with a two horse corn marker, that will 
mark four rows at a time. Make the rows four feet apart each 
way for .the large stalked varieties; three or three and one half 
feet will do for the smaller varieties, where the soil is good, 
and in proper condition—-plant with the hoe, having enough, 
help to finish the field to be planted in at least three days 
time. Plant as early, as the ground is fit. I am satisfied that 
we put off our planting later in the season than is advisable ; 
the result rather of press of work in the spring than the fear of 
spring frosts. Corn should be planted early enough to escape 
the frosts of fall; allowing about one hundred and thirty days 
from the time of planting to the time of its maturity. 
Soak the corn for twenty-four hours in water, then roll it, 
or sprinkle it thoroughly, with land plaster. In planting, put 
only four kernels in a hill. In heavy clay soil, if early in the 
spring, plant near the surface of the ground, and do not cover 
it so deep, that it will be out of the reach of the warmth of 
the sun. Do not step on it, or pound the ground down with 
the hoe, after planting. When near the surface, the spring 
rains will keep it moist, and the heat of the sun will cause it 
sooner to sprout, and grow. If planted late in the season, it 
must be planted deeper in the soil, in order to obtain the mois¬ 
ture so necessary to its growth; for then the rain comes less 
frequently, and the top of the ground becomes hard and 
baked, and corn planted near the surface, may remain for 
weeks dry, without sprouting, and in some cases, where it 
does sprout, for want of moisture it soon withers up and dies, 
and the field has to be replanted. Witness the season of 1870, 
as a fair and complete exposition of the truth of this theory. 
Alter the com makes its appearance, start the cultivators, 
and keep them at work almost constantly until the stalks have 
become so tall and thick, that a horse cannot pass through the 
rows without injury to the growing crop. The more cultiva¬ 
tion, the more corn. Pumpkins, and sometimes squash, are 
