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From the American Farmer.


From the American Farmer.
DR. Muse, ON THE CULTIVATION OF Corn.
CAMBRIDGE, August, %, 1889.
S1R-I observe in the American Far.
mer" of the 2lst inst. request from one
of your correspondents. that l would com.
nunicate through its columns the mode OF
culture Of my growing crop Of corn.
Willingly comply with the request. |
think il has several advantages over those in
ordinary use and if it should, on further
experience, advance. in any degree, the
agricultural interest, in this great staple, it
will afford me much qualification.
Allow me, then, to refer you, for this pur.
pose, to the Farmers Register current
volume, (vol. z, Jan. number,) pages II &
10, where you will find full report of the
result and mode of culture, and lining, and
manuling, &c. ofmy crop made the last
season, upon the same principles, and in
the same manner, as that Of the present,
with the difference oftaoo incidents, worthy
of notice, as bearing upon tine TWO expert
mental cases, to wit 1.-THE first was made
upon sward, very recently, yet heavily
loaded with grass of the previous autumn !;
and the year ofthe growth the corn, was
notoriously and universally remarkable for
its drou. .ht-whereas the present growing
crop was planted upon three year old
sward of blue grass and clover, on which,
my friends thought, it could not succeed
and, TOO, the year is remarkable for repeated
and excessive rains, thus presenting strong
comparative view, under varying circum-
stances.
In the drought of the first, was FORUM
ate in being enabled thereby to confute the
predictions Of my neighbors, " that in such
event, my crop must perish, by its thick pdan'
ting"-having about 5000 single stocks to
the acre--and it is true, the demand for
moisture must have been greater by the
greater number of slocks--ye, it suffered
less than any corn in the neighborhood, as
conceded by all-and becaus, my cul ure
furnished it with the means OF obtaining
more moisture. .,'
With these few remarks, connected with
my paper in the " Register" before referred
TO, YOU have all that am aware would be
useful to the purpose.
l hope ifyou publish any part OF my pa
per alluded to, you will publish the whole,
with the certificates, &c. as reports oflarge
crops, should in all cases be verified in The
best manner possible. | am, respectfully,
YOURS, &c.
JOSEPH E. MUSE.
N. B. would prefer l6 inches in The
line for planting in place ofthe IL; my pre-
sent crop is l6, making about 1000 stocks
10 the acre. J.. NJ.
From the Farmers Register.
STATEMENT OF THE CULTIVATION AND PRO.
DUCT OF FIELD OF CORN.
Cambridge, Dec, 29, 1888.
Dear Sir-You requested the result ola
corn crop which made this year and my
mode Of cultivation, with its rationale.
Though no, Original, because the principles
on which it was made are vel known and
settled, yet it was unusual, and | have no''
elsewhere, known their application in the
same manner, in all respects.
have, for several years, tried few
acres, under similar culture; and finding
it considerably superior, in all seasons to the
ordinary methods, | extended it this year,
to forty ucres and though the drought has
very much cur,ailed the product below the
promise of the luxuriant stalks, yet 1t is
very respectable for field. culture.
The fieldin question was cultivated the pre-,
vious year in corn in the ordinary mode, hav-
ing been the same year, nsanured-about 80
loads, and lined, one hundred bushels to the
acre. The then ensuing winter and spring,
as early as possible, it was ploughcd, a
moderate depth, about inches, drag-har-
rowed and rolled, and drill-planted. in
lines 4 l-2 feet apart, and IL inches
in The line single stalks only left in
the thinning, which operation was perform.
ed by a patent drill-machine, invented bv
Francis H. Smith, Of Baltimore. which
have found useful, in many years expert
ence.. With one man and two horses, this
machine will furrow, drop, cover, and roll
down 8 or l 0 acres per day. and. with near,
ly mathematical precision. iu point of line
and distance. The corn, when up, was
worked with ordinary "culaivators," succee
ded by one dressing with the scarjfer.
about 6 inches deep. This latter imple
ment, which purchased several years ago
of Sinclair Il Moore. of Baltimore, has ir
my opinion, no equivalent substitute in tht
culture Of our corn-crop as by 1t, the eartf
may be penetrated and pulverized 6 or