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July 9, 1793
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Elijah Hawley of Newfield shares his 1792 experience with a successful corn planting method: spacing plants two feet apart with one kernel per hill, hoeing without plowing, yielding over a bushel of ears per rod and high kernel counts from single plants.
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Advice to Farmers from my own experience this present year.
And rich, and then plant your corn but two feet apart each way, and but one kernel in a hill: this is the way I have done, and hoed it without ploughing; and when my corn was ripe, I measured several rods of it, and measured the corn exactly, and had more than a bushel of ears to a rod of ground, and it was so well filled, that it yielded eighteen quarts of shelled corn to a bushel of ears: And one hill in particular I cut up eleven suckers, when the corn first began to set, and dried them, and put them in the barn for fodder, and there was seven then left. and each one had two ears, which eight ears produced 1774 kernels, and all from one kernel; And had a large load of the tops on about one hundred rods of ground.
And I am of opinion that the ground would bear to have been planted only one foot apart, and therefore might have yielded more than it did.
ELIJAH HAWLEY.
Newfield, Oct. 22, 1792.
And rich, and then plant your corn but two feet apart each way, and but one kernel in a hill: this is the way I have done, and hoed it without ploughing; and when my corn was ripe, I measured several rods of it, and measured the corn exactly, and had more than a bushel of ears to a rod of ground, and it was so well filled, that it yielded eighteen quarts of shelled corn to a bushel of ears: And one hill in particular I cut up eleven suckers, when the corn first began to set, and dried them, and put them in the barn for fodder, and there was seven then left. and each one had two ears, which eight ears produced 1774 kernels, and all from one kernel; And had a large load of the tops on about one hundred rods of ground.
And I am of opinion that the ground would bear to have been planted only one foot apart, and therefore might have yielded more than it did.
ELIJAH HAWLEY.
Newfield, Oct. 22, 1792.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agricultural Advice
Personal Experience
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Corn Planting
Farming Method
High Yield
Hoeing
Suckers
Elijah Hawley
What entities or persons were involved?
Elijah Hawley
Where did it happen?
Newfield
Story Details
Key Persons
Elijah Hawley
Location
Newfield
Event Date
1792
Story Details
Hawley describes planting corn two feet apart with one kernel per hill, hoeing without plowing, achieving over a bushel of ears per rod, eighteen quarts shelled per bushel of ears, and one hill yielding 1774 kernels from a single kernel after removing suckers for fodder.