Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-03-16
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Republican and Yeoman.
a NEW soRT OF INDIAN coaN

Messrs. Idle Dc Aidrich.
| 1t you will be kind enough to publish
the following in your useful paper, it may
be oil essential benefit to the public, espe-
ciaiiy to enterprising farmers.
AS was OH my way to Boston, in Oc-
ltober 1917, an acquaintance OF mine told
me, that a man in Bedford, by the name
lof Porter, had raised that year new sort
OF corn, that was early and Iarge.--Uur
corn having been cut off by the ircst for
two or three years, | was anxious TO etn.
ibrace an opportunity to get an earlier
sort, aud The eight rowed COIN was SO I'M
productive, / did not choose to plant it,
and had not for many years. therefore
called on Mr.. Porter, who took me into
his corn house, where he showed me the
handsomest bin of corn ever saw. The
ears were large and bright, aud from 9 to
II inches long, and there were from 10 to
Is, but generally from II to l6 rows on
an ear. Mr.. Porter told me, that it was
a fortnight earlier there, than the little
eight rowed Canada corn. | bought
three pecks of it, part OF it in the ears
to show its quality. | gave away several
quarts of it to my friends, on my way
home.
On the 28th day of May, 1918, plant
ed piece of ground containing 81 rods
by exact measurement, with some of said
corn. | furrowed tue ground about IL
ieet apart one way; l then took yard ma
nure, that was carried out aud laid in
large heap, the fall before, and spread it
all along in the burrows; | then took
horse and plough and turned the burrows
right back on TO the manure: then put
three kernels in hill, and planted the
hills. about 20 inches apart, which made
it about twice as thick that way as the
other. 1t grew very large, aud was much
admired. :" never saw the like" was
the general expression of all who MOTTO
ed it.
Some of my neighbors wished me TO
ascertain the quantity that grew on that
piece of ground, which have done as
nearly as could with convenience. In
september 1 picked for seed the first
ripe ears all over the piece, aud traced up
just 20 ears IN trace, and had F60 traces,
which contained 5000 ears. have since
shelled, aud find the whole to amount to
2S bushels. The fore part of October l
gathered the remainder, and had it husked
out in the evening, and laid it in heap in
my corn house aud the next day we
picked it over, and that which was then
sufficiently dry to put into the bin, we
measured in basket which holds 2 IL
bushels Of shelled corn, aud had rs bas
kets, which we judged would be as much
or more than &c bushels of sheled corr,
which, together with % bushels OF seed
corn, make 81 bushels; and we conclud-
ed that the part which we refused to put
into the bio, was equivalent to the four
rods which the piece of ground contained
over a half acre and by the cobs about
the field, We judged that the hens and
turkies had devoured or 5 bushels. /
therefore conclude, that the whole product
was as much as at the rate of one hundred
and sixteen bushels to the acre.
1t being good season for corn, doubt
less / should have had large crop, If !
had planted my old sort; but presume
not SO much, by more than one quarter.
This ascertained, by planting some side
by side, ard found its produce to be less
than the new sort, by more than one quar-
ter.
Finding this new sort of corn to be so
valuable an acquisition, and wishing to
have it propagated as much as possible, |
saved large quantity of it for seed; and
that there might be small beginning Of it
at least in each town in the State, I took
$50 ears of it last October, and carried
them to Montpelier, that the Members of
the Legislature, who lived SO remote that
they would not otherwise have 40 oppor-
tunity to obtain it, might each of them OBJ
tain an ear.
SALMON BUTTON.
Cavendish, (Vt.) Feb. Is, 1919.
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