That sown in May has thrived best.

My maize I planted in the latter end of August, and the beginning of September.

My land I prepared thus: having burnt the fallen timber off the ground, I dug in the ashes, and then hoed it up, never doing more than eight, or perhaps nine, rods in a day, by which means, it was not like the government farm, just scratched over, but properly done.

Then I clod-moulded it, and dug in the grass and weeds.

This I think almost equal to ploughing.