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Depth Of Planting Corn

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
April
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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-A nunteatiOD which we iind in the öermantown TtlegrapA givcs the followir g suggestions and {acts, respecting the proper depth for planting coro : Gover the corn carefiilïy, and oever more than frorn one and a half to two inehes decp. Ii pL n ed doeper thn i this, it wiü be longer coming up, and nfter it comes up it wil! qrow very wel! until1 it ís three or four inches high, when it will remain tationary lor ti n tlays two weeks. T?v examining v e will find thal the first joint is below tl e surface of' the soil, also tluit the roots ave decayinar, while naw ones are bning tlirown out f rom the j i n't ; these ncw roots require Rome ten of fiftiei day ioi thoir C'implelo formalion, and d til Ing this timo the plant remains statioray as far as growth is oont-orm-d. Assomi as the new roots aro fully for.ned tha old ones will entiroly disappasr, and the growth will proceed as Usual, From actiinl experiments with graina taken_ro?re the same far and sant', pari of the car, I have arrived at the folloiv ing reïült: Cíorn plantedíone inch dee[, came up in eight days; t':;:t planted onu and a halt inchea deep reqnired nine and a half days; that two inc-hes deep, ten tlays ; two and a hult inchea decp, eleven and a quarter d:'.ys ;■ tliFiin indios doep, twelve days: three and :i half incbea deep, thirtoon days; fiair inches doep, iourteen and a half itoys ; five and a half inches deep, oightoen dnj-s; six inches diep, twenty oneday, The last lol came lip anij grew ut. about three inches high, whon jt rnmained stationary for u long tfm and finally died. L5L" According to the Asiatio Rt1searebes a very curious mode of trying tlic titlc of lar.ds is pi-acticcd in Mindostan ; - Two holes are dug in the ah-puted spot, in eaeli of whrch thé plsintiff and defondant's lawyers puf ono of their lcgs and reicain thore until one s tired, or complains of being (tang by tbe inseets, n whicb case bis cliënt is defeatod. In this country it is tho dient and not the lawyer wbo puts usfoot in it. -a - ■■ - Cgf Diplomaoy may work as rauoli calamity as a battle; a few Luk dropa may oost a nation more misery and esbaustiou thau a river of blood, [5P Punch says: " 'Womcd Sre said to have Btrongcr attacbnientsthan men. lc is not so. Strength of attaebmeut is ovinced in little thingi A man is ofteu attaohed to the old lnïf ; but did you ever know of a woman h'a'tlas! an ittachinc ut for aiï cltl b"o'nuüt . Eclio answera - Nover. jL3r"Thc finlowingnotioe, ovor tlio signaturc of " Beginner,"' appeared in the Mystio Pionoer last week: Ladics ara hcréby reqaëctod wlien skating ia niy iiivmedíate vicinity, not to catcli hold of my oot tail sudJonly for sipport, as it lias n tendenoy to disooncort myplaoa, and has in ono or two instan acs tlirown me entirely on my own resources, whioh, thöugh by no raenns limitetl, have trong eompunct'ons athJng clled so sudd.'uly nto n'i'ii-'ition

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