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of interest connected with the cultivation of this extraordinary yield. I have but a word to add about the measurement.

The acre was within two hundred yards of my barn. The committee assembled early in the morning and the corn was broken in, hauled up and measured in the presence of one or more of the committee, who were all well known citizens. The measurement was by barrels, one or more (three I believe, was the exact number,) were taken at hazard, the contents shelled and measured. The average was then multipled by the number of barrels, and the result obtained.

I wish much that I could find the report of the committee published by the Society of that date; it explained all this I believe, and stated that the committee would be willing to buy or sell by the same measurement. It was not uninteresting at the time to know, that a friend who had walked through the corn a few days before, by counting the ears on several rows had estimated the yield at 213 bushels.

I attribute the success more to timely irrigation, than to any other cause.

Very truly and respectfully yours,

J. W. PARKER.

Many of our readers have read in the "Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society for 1569," the report of the Committee on Corn Culture, of which Dr. J. W. Parker, of Columbia, was Chairman; but for the benefit of the thousands who have not seen it, as well as to have it here, where it can be referred to at any time, we now re-print it entire. In connection with Dr. Parker's note in our June number, it furnishes a complete history of the wonderful and much debated premium corn crop-probably the largest on record:

In performing the duty assigned me by the Agricultural and Mechanical Association, I propose, briefly, to give my