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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Certificate authenticates high yield of Indian corn using Jno. Hall's cultivation plan on sterile land at George L. Brent's farm in Prince William County, Virginia, near Dumfries, producing 23.75 barrels or 118 bushels and 3 pecks per acre, dated Nov. 8, 1816.
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The following strongly authenticated certificate has been forwarded to us for publication by a very respectable friend, who says its truth may be certainly relied on, as indeed we should have been certain from the signatures:
We the undersigned have this day personally attended to the gathering and measuring a portion of the best of an experiment according to Mr. Jno. Hall's plan for cultivating Indian Corn, on Mr. George L. Brent's farm, and do hereby certify that the yield, as gathered, and measured in our presence, was at the rate of twenty three and three fourths barrels to the cultivated acre, or one hundred and eighteen bushels and three pecks.
We also certify that the ground on which this experiment was made is so exceedingly sterile, being selected on that account, that it would not have yielded as much corn as would have paid the expense of cultivation.
GERARD ALEXANDER, Sr.
HAWKINS HOARD,
BERNARD HOOE, Jr.
LEWIS JENKINS
JOHN WIATT.
Prince William Co. Virginia, near Dumfries, Nov. 8, 1816.
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Prince William Co. Virginia, Near Dumfries
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Nov. 8, 1816
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yield of twenty three and three fourths barrels to the cultivated acre, or one hundred and eighteen bushels and three pecks; ground exceedingly sterile, would not have paid cultivation expense otherwise.
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Undersigned personally attended gathering and measuring portion of experiment according to Mr. Jno. Hall's plan for cultivating Indian Corn on Mr. George L. Brent's farm, certifying the yield rate.