The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-07-07
Killing Indian Corn.
ETTwAN.
Lancasterville, June. 1852.

1t is a mooted question in the agricul-
tural world, and will probably long. re-
main an undecided one, whether Indian
corn should be "H1LLED." For my own
part, confess that both observation and
experience have convinced me that it
should not. do not intend to discuss
the subject philosophicaIly in this paper,
but merely state the result of experiments
In the summer Of 1850 I had piece of
corn-comprising about one acre-half
of which l hilled up with broad, conf
"a! hill at the last hocing, the other being
left flat. Both plans were decidedly
good, and both had received the same
quantity of manure, and precisely the
same cultivation, with the exception above
named. In July there came heavy torn
ado, and the corn in both pieces was much
Frustrated, but on examinating, / found
that the hilled piece was broken off in
many cases, indeed in almost every hill,
while the uphiled or level part had cacap-
ed. The consequence was that the plants
on the latterrose, while those on the former
did not but retained, to a great extent
the recumbent position they had been
compelled to take by the wind. There
was also very perceptible difference in
the quantity of the crop in favor of the
former. Now let us examine the reason
OF this. When fresh soil is brought up
around the corn stalk, it induces a fresh
evolution of brace or lateral roots, and
this every time fresh accessions of dirt are
made. But the braces roots do not tend
in powerful degree, to the support Of
the plant; they are too superficial
soil is light, and they sway with the sway
ing of the plant. Besides, the effect OF
| the dirt is to blanch and render brittle
the portion of the stalk around which it is
placed, and consequently liable to snap
Oft before even moderate wind If no
dirt was to be brought up, the original
laterals or brace roots, would extend them
selvs, acquire size and energy, and be
capable, by their magnitude and strong
hold upon a firm soil, disappearing the
plant in any wind. My plan is to plant
t so as to have the rows run both ways of
the piece a. e. cross each othe at right
angles, which admits Of working the cron
with the harrow or cultivator, and to keep
the surface entierly level. There is mo
philosophy whatever, in making an ele-
walton above the roots, so far as the SUD-
port of the plant is concerned, and it must
be obvious, ] think, to every rejecting per.
son, that the exposure Of an extra extent
of surface, in dry time, as in the case O
billing, must increase the effect Of drought
Cor. Herald and Free Press.
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