Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-10-13
INFORMANT TO FARMERS.

| shink, Mesers Printers, that we havo had e.
nough in all conscience Of putting and blowing
about family Rasels, Tree play actors, men sing
crs and women singers, Italian hddiers, and ropo
dancers, live elephants and monkeys. BY the
bye. it is a very prevalent opinion ut Cow bay !,
Cow Neck, Oyster Bay, and Hal!et's Cove. that
if all those drone bees were turned out TO fell
trees, grub up the brush, and hoe corn, we would
not need TO import peasmeal and rye-iour fron'
Germany ;)-things which feed the sense Of sight
only. Now VIC, some of your ClodhoppiDg sub
scribers think ourselves entitled to hall a column
Of your paper to speak Of things which feed tho
taste, and give neurishment to the body corpoE-
ate. -.
Mr.. Jefferson says the man who makes three
blades Of grass grow where only one grew before,
is moro the friend Of man than ho who cOnqucrs
kingdoms.-I think if MIR. Jefferson had always
preached such sound doctrine. he would have been
the greatest philosopher of the age. Seeing, then:
that this proposition about the grass is sel-cvt-
dent fact, what think you should be done to the
man who makes three of corn where only
one grow before? inasmuch grass feeds the
horse, and corn the man. But 10 come TO tho
point at once:
Some three years ago, merchant in N. York,
while emptying a box of tea, observed therein a
few grains Of corn. Concluding that corn from
China must be something new under our sun, no
had them planted, so they grew and multiplied
Last spring | received from a worthy friend, a
portion of said corn--it's a new variety-so !
gave it the name of China's fa! prolific, or tree
corn; as it strikes off in two, three anu frequent
y four branches, in appearance like small tree,
and produces OH car at the head OF each branch,
whereas the common corn shoots out tho ear from
the side of the stalk; it grows from eight TO ten
feet high, produces abundance OF fodder, IS
large white. fipt Twelve row corn, and ears from
ten to fourteen inches long. ! counted six hun
dred and sixty grains on one ear; II was planted
on the 10Th Of May aud had ears fiji 10 boil on the
10Th of July. It's produce was much curtailed bv
the long drought, but notwithstanding counted
two thousand one HUNDRED and twenty grains, the
product of stalk; being increase Of two
thousand from ono. The DuttoD (which is ex-
ceent cornI planted the Same day, on tho
same field, and receiving the same quantity of
manure, cross ploughng and hoeing, did not pro-
duce one half The patch, about two hundred
hills, was examined by many respectable farmers
who all pronounced it something new, and some-
thing superior.
The corn may be had Of G. c. Thorburn, New
York, and at tho store Of William Thorbura in
Albany, price 25 cents per ear; the nett profits
to be given to some Of the charitable institutions
in New York and Albany. Now, if there is a
armer between Maine and the Rocky Mountains
who would rather pay 25 cents for two gii1s OF
brandy, than TO buy one car OF this corn, winch
will plant 100 hills-I say, il there is such .
nan, no ought TO be fed on nothing but suPaun
md buttermnk as long little soul and big car
Ass will hang together. A stalk, having the
,ars on to show the manner OF growth, NAV b.
zen a, the above stores.
00 GRANT THORBURN.
HaIle,s Cove, Sept. "a, 1888.