AsHEs FOR CORN.
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All cur sandy loans are benefited in
some degree BY the application Of wood
ashes, leached or unleached. But green
sward, crsoils that are full Of vegetable
matter, that needs to be soon rotted, are
more aided By them than barren soils.


Ashes in the'hill are more easily applied
.as soon as the corn is dropped and cover.
ed than At any other time, and in this mode
they are apt to keep the worms away and
hasten the vegetating of the kernal than
when applied after the corn is up.


Ii is now generally conceded that the old
practice Of making high hills for corn and
Cor potatoes was vicious, as it placed the
roots deeper in the earth than nature taught
them to run. Still slight hilling is not
injurious when you are not intending to SOW
your grass seed at the last hoeing: and
you will find it more easy to burythe weeds
in the hill than to cut them up; burying
them, too, kills them more surely than cut.
ting them.


Corn and potatoes are often suffered to
take care Of themselves after the first or
second hoeing, but in our weedy grounds
we ought to keep the soil well stirred through
June, for we not only increase thespreseht
harvest, but we fit the field better for the
next season by thorough tillage now. The
hand hoes, however, will have but little to
do after the first thorough weeding.-MasS.
PlO4ghmGH.