Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-03-27
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EFFEcTUALLv To PREvENr CROWS AND oTHEE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 90, 1889.
BIRDS FROM PULLtNG UP YOUNG CORN.

EFFEcTUALLv TO PREvENr CROWS AND OTHER
BIRDS FROM PULLtNG UP YOUNG CORN.
The following remedy we believe once
before appeared in our columns, but knowing Its
value we repeat it.
Put your corn in warm water and let i. stand
at least l2 hours; then pour off tho water and
add more, of blood heat or little warmer;
pour in tar, at the rate of one pint to tho bus el
ofcorn Stir we'll to make the tar mix fully
with the water and corn then pour of the
water aud mi: in dry sand to prevent the grains
from adhering. Unless the corn is sorked till
it swes twill not vegetate, because the coat of
tar prevents the moisture in the soil from pene
trating. II must be planted before the grain
shr nks.
We have known this remedy to be used with
unf4iling success for the last 25 years
Cotton and SIX Cnllure.-Acording TO the
estimate of Mr. Chauncey Stone of Burlng-
ton, NJ J. based upon his own experience (See
his letter in this paper of March l3) the num-
Der of worms necessary to make 100 h. of
reeled silk require TO be attended during the
first week b. one hand; during the second
week, by one hand and boy or girl; and
afterwards by only one additional hand. provi.-
ded the morus multicaulis be the tree from
which the leaves to feed the worms are
gathered. The worms preferred in this coun-
try, Usually cease to cat and commence
spinning at the age Of from 30 to AZ days
according to the weather; so that the aver.
age time consumed by the above number Of
hands, when the worms live longest, is FIVE
weeks. Tho 100 ID, of silk made by them in
this time will command at present prices from
$500 to $500; which to say the least, is as
much as the same hands, Dith the addition of
q horse can make at cotton planting in South
Carolina whilst the cotton crop occupies
them from 10 TO II months, or dolb!e as
many months as the silk does weeks.
IfMr. Stone;s estimate is correct and we
shall soon see that it is 70: too high, The
the culture Of silk is lIanifes;!y much prefer
able to that of cotton, even srppos ng that
only one set, or generation of worms could be
reared in season. But it is now ascert:lned
that with the trifilng expense Ola sma!! ice
house, which vii! cost less than gin,.housc,
the silkworm eggs may be KEEP, throughout
the summer, and be brought cut to hatch at
any time when wanted and the young morus
multicaulis trees have this advantage over
other varieties of the mulberry, that they
continue to grow till frost, affording through
out the season, an abundant supply Of tender
foliage, which the young worms always need
Hands engaged in the silk culture may then,
in this climate, fiId constant employment in
feeding the worms during five months of the
year say from the first or middle of April,
till the first or middle of October. In that
time, four successive generations or sets OF
worms may be reared, and their cocoons be
gathered by the same hands. According to
these PREMISES, two hands and boy can
make 400 lb. of reeled silk in single season,
which will command from $4,000 to S240O.
This is TWO three times as much as can
be realiz,d from the same hands even on the
best Alabama cotton plantations. lfthere IS
any error IN the estimate. it is in the number
of crops of silk which may be made, or the
number of generations of worms which may
be reared, in one season. But let this De
stated at only two instead Of four and the
bo; may be estimated as a halt a hano, oo anu
the annua. income will still be from Saoo 10
to $500 to the hand, which is more than lhe
income from cotton planting IN Alabama
Besides: Alabama cotton lands cost S2o per
acre whilst land suitable for silk culture may
be had in North or sa'th Carolina at from $l
to 81. A cc:.sa crop requires acres to the
hand, not counting the laaIs planted tor pro-
visions; less thai one acre to the hand IS
sufficient for silk crop. Cotton lmpov%llshes
the soil mulberry trees enrich it. A cotton
crop requires half as many horses as hands;
a silk crop rot more than one horse to the
dozen hands. A cotton cop leaves no time
l,r any .h;or c'sn; 2 sitN; cr,1 aGE"s !H.' 'Ue