Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-05-09

INDIAN CORN
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Ia ~. oh,a t-,a quesaca among f,fasers
-esaiss, one hansre5 bs.hs. Of shsile8 cufn osi
y. nro8er.d IN ~ trre II, fact. however. Of IT.
hs,ine bsen don. Ga, been ~ repeatedly establish
a. not 10 Gao 10 longer b. Disputed II NC look a
,h. msUst more neatly, We shall see ground to hop'
that pc rra, Go e,ea more than this live sup
posi- ihs hill, 4 eorn planted At ihie- feet apsr
each way. We shall have on IN acre $50 hills
Now. rpon ihs farther superstition tha, iolr beanng
~alks .hpBlj tstn,ia il each hill each producing
one est and each sr predicting seven ounces av.
etdspo.ss 81 .hellcd ssin, the whole s'nouu the
.cr- would he ss7o bs Of ersin and allowing sis',
lbs 10 boshel 80 10, IS ire irs, ~eis'' the ,ivd
would be owe, cne hundred and iouy bushels. o.
r. instead Of on, pound and three quarters To hil
a. above, each ear should average e,sh, ourcei
yielding two pound, hill. ia. crop would amount
SO $3.50 lbs or, at 90 10. to a bushel. To one hun
dred and siIiy bushels 10 the acre. Bot this
can be done. why is II not donei Onv one answer
can he given which IS, in geaetai, Wan, OF sJfii-
zen, care ia cultivation There IL waat Of care
and eIaciness IN not making the bills that tho
sgmScr mentioned .haA DO cumprohended on an
acre. There is TOO rle, seed scwr, so Tia, little
chsncc 10 had 60 selec, from tic hill, for cou,inu-
anee, the mos, vigorous and Thirty plants Manure
placing the manure In he hill without spreading 1t
upon tho land. the plant is preminrey forced in the
beginning, aud does no, hod food enough TO bear it
on, In the latter par, Of the season. Ia truth, the
habits Of our farmers aro anything but exact in
their cultivation. Few fields Of there are that
do no, present many missing hills and few hills
pressn, four thrifty stalks. We have still much to
learn 10 this matter but there is every reason TO
hope that the time is not distant when, 10 careful
farmer, one hundred bushels OF sheled 10 the
acre will DO no uncommon than fifty bush.
els al the present time. ! remember we II when so
bushels TO the acre was consdesed as the maximum
product ever likely to be reached: yet the average
weld Of 4 farm in Mortified IN this county has
been for years less than 20 bushels 10 the
The mode OF managing and harvesting Indian
corn is subect deserving attention. 4 diversity
Of practice prevails in this well in other parts
OF the country. The custom OF making hills, tina,
Is raising the ground in a conical form round the
plant, is well nigh abandoned Many half-hill it :;
but many cultivate it upon an entirely fiat surface.
My own experience has taught me that advan-
'a2c comes from killing the al all, even in re-
speci 10 that point which mainly designed 10 be
accomplished by this practce-that of keeping the
cora in an upright position and preventing It's being
blown down When The surface is fiat the corn
may be blown down; bu, it is more likely TO rise a
gain than II 1t billed, as in the latter case, the
hall operates as fulorum over which the stalk, in
bending, is brokeu The roots are the natural sup
po'ters Of the stalk and plants spontaneously ac-
commo tie themselves to their condition. On
ia, surface they throw out more and stronger late
raj roofs than where the corn is billed The crop
Is cultivated now with culiivator or triangular
harrow with pointed or duck feet instead Of the
plough, which was formerly used. The cultivation
Of corn canno, be too cleany but i, is advisable not
TO 60 10 among it with plough or harrow after the
grain has begun to be formed Before that lime,
am satisfied tina, the ground cauno, be kept too
loose between the rows. Coiman's agricultural
Report.