The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-03-14

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shade The whole surface or the field. d |.
% preserve the mrislure and Il tie sam
Time 10 cheek Ihe growth AZ arass -
weeds /; and al die time of easher;nv
vas lhe only part % ny corn land moi q
Fered with crab grass but On tisi .her
was not spsFe.
The fodder was pulled II The psus
tine, which was an enormous Weld
ulongh did moi have IL weighed; The .or
WEIR cut as usual, and then invited se
seFal gentlemen 10 come and see lie cor
gathered and measured. Fom Of then
came, 10 vii, Mr.. Peter W. Gubbs. M
Fendall Griffin, DIR. Miles George, Al,
III. samnel Perrin. Two oT these zen
ilrmen first measured tile land accurately
which was less than an acre; The corr
was Then gathered. shucked, and measur
Cd IN their presence, which yielded, >,
you have heard, one hundred bushels d
The acre. have never obtained : eerli
hraie Of the facts from these gentlemen
as u was not my purpose 70 make any
parade N The papers about il. Though
confess | think il the duty OF every far.
mer 10 give his brother farmers the results
OF such experiments. whether successful
Or oiheEwise,) and as you will probably
have an opportunity Of seeing Them, or
most Of them before | shall, | wish You
would obtain il, and publish il in connec.
ton with this communication.
IL should be remembered that the sea.
son was what wOald generally be call,
cd a good one-ihere was an abundance
Of rain, but il did not fall in such pro-
portions, or at spch times, as though,
best calculated to advance The crop;
there were only two days, however,
throughout the season (and that a, a
critical stage) that il showed signs or suf-
ierlng from drought. but of course il did
suffer for some days before II began 10
give way.
Thus FAR ! have deal. in Facts, but If
ynn will bear with me little while, as I
have pen in hand, l will now indulge a
lilile IN speculation. The result Of this
experiment has served to satisfy me, hat
u Is practicable 10 make one hundred and
iii,y bushels to tie acre on our best corn
lands, properly prepared, and will good
season though with very dry Season i,
might bring very li!lle. In the iirsl place.
! am convinced thai this lot would have
yielded me mrrli more than il did ii ii had
been planted with any other kind OF corn
than that which was planted. Some tive
or .hiee years ago, Twas persuaded By my
neighbour Burton, who was good practi-
cal farmer, to try what is generally known
in that neighborhoOd as "a Gooch's CORN"
which he represented as remarkable for
producing regularly two ears 10 the stalk
On common land-which my experience
has taught me is quality peculiar to that
description of corn, and will for that rea-
son answer a COOL purpose on very poor
land; but it is the most Indifferent corn
in use for good land--for on the btSidnd
| have never been able to Get more than
the same two short tars, measuring about
eight inches in length--and for this il must
have proper room--while with the large
cared goard.seed corn on land Of the same
quality the yield has been more than dou-
bile. by some mistake or negligence on
The part Of my overseer, who prepared
the corn for planting, this was the corn Sc
ted, although | had determined never to
plan, another grain Of it on any quality
nf land that had. This was the only |
piece Of corn | had Of that description.
Again, the ears made were small. gene
rally Of the size of the Baden corn, which /
when tried it, usually took 900 ears
10 make barrel-and estimating 90n of
hese ears to the barrel. it would show !.
hat there were $4,000 stalks that pro-
laced, an an average, though some of the
stalks had two ears, and by the calcula-
ion before made, there were 400 stalks
hat did not produce. which no doubt d.
in a great degree the product of
he balance, as they served not only 10
lraw heavily on the soil, but 10 crowd
md prevent the free circula'ion Of air.
Now if these 400 stalks are taken out,
md the remaing $4,000 are properly dis
rihuted, they would produce .much,larger
If nai a greater number of ears--so that
~ planting in rows three feet apart, at
he distance OF ten inches, it would give
-ou 1850 hills or stalks of corn, at
which distance it mus, be obvious from
he experiment already made, that every
talk would bear (for in that case the
am, number did bear, when crowded up
With 400 tina, did not bear) full ear:
hen estimating 600 ears to the barrel.
which would be ample, and YOU would
lave twen,y-nine barrels and lwo-thirds ,
# barrel; which with the extra ears, I
for many Of the stalks would produce
wo) would overrun the thirty barrels. {
At all events, this is the experiment s
mean to make next year, and from it, 4
With a gond season, | anticipate l5e {
mshels of cortland wish this commn- I
Iication may have the effect Of inducing i
'thers to try it, if it is only upon quar-
er of an acre. have already laid off my j
OF and am pre- pairing il for the trial. +