Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-23

of the Ohio alley-the tiny ears, with fat clos
Yclinging grains of Canada-the brilliant, roundel
little pearl-the bright red grains and white cd.
Gof the eight-rowed hsenalite-the swelling ears
Kthe big white and yellow gourd seed of the South
From the feasibility Of this plant, itmay be accF
Smatized, by gradual cultivation, from Texas Pi
Maine, OF from Canada to Brazil but its chars-
Ster in eithercase, is somewhat changed, and ofnI
new varieties are the result. The blades of hei
xpant are of great value food for stock, an{isI
Fan article but rarely estimated sufficiently, wEnl
sconsidering the agricultural products of the souh
Germ and southwestern States especially.
s The increase of production, from 1910 to $780,!
Nwas 214,0Oo,OOO bushels, equal to Sc per cent
s. The production of New England has advaned;
from 6,993, 900 to lo,377.OOO bushels showhg'
Gan increase of 3,3s4,OOO bushels, nearly fifty ler
Ecent. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
SDelaware and Maryland, increased 2O,912,QO
Nbushels, more than fifty per cent In the probe
tion of this crop no State has refrigerated. Oho,
(which, in 1910, occupied the fourth place as cen-
Eproducing State, now ranks as the first Kentuky
&is second, Illinois third, Tennessee fourth. Fhe
Ecrop of Illinois has increased from 2,O00,OO( to-
81, 100000 bushels, at the rate of one huntred
sand sixty per cent. in ten years.
q OF the numerous varieties some are best adaOted
ITO the Southern States, while others are bitter
Suited for the Northern and Eastern. Those gen
Eerally cultivated in the former are the Southern
@big aud small yellow, the Southern big and small
white flint, the yellow Peruvian and the Vrginan
Swhite gourd seed. In the more Northerly and
Easterly States they cultivate the golden Sioux or
kNorthern yellow flint the King Philip or eight
Nrowed yellow the Canadian early white, the Tusca-
Nrora, the white flour, and the Rhode Island white
Ehint.
81 The extended cultivation of this grain is chiefly
sconfned to the Eastern, Middle and Western
Estates, though much more successfully grown in
Mthe latter The amount exported from South Car
EEssolina, in 1749, was 59,3O9 bushels; from North
8CaroIina, in 1853, 81 $50 bushels from Georgia
Gin 1855, 600 bushels from Virginia, for several
years preceding the revolution, annually 100000
ssbushels; from Philadelphia, in 1866, 60,2Od
Sbushels; in l771, 259, AL bushels.
81 The total amount exported from this country IL
N177O, was 57S,349 bushels in 1871, 2,064,936
kbushels, 30 sos of &hich were Indian meal in
1850, 1902, 435 bushels, 338, los ;of which were
Gin meal in 1910, l,14O,960 bushels 66744 OF
(which were meal. In 192O-'21, there we're ex
ssported 6O7,277 bushels of corn, and 131,6es
s barrels of Indian meal in 183O,3l, 1873
sbushels of corn, and 2o7 GOA barrels Of meal; il
S194Ol4l, $50, 1877 bushels of corn, and 232,284
zbarrels Of meal; in 1S45-'46, l,296,O6S bushels
gof corn, 1851 barrels of meal in lS46-47
GIG ,326,O5O bushels of corn, and 946, O60 barrel:
@of meal; in 195O151, 3,426,S11 bushels Of corn
s and 2O3, 622 barrels of meal. More than clever
millions of bushels of Indian corn were consumed
Sin 1850 in the manufacture of malt and spirituou
liquors.
3 According to the census of 1910, the corn croI
5of the United States was 81, 531 ,975 bushels
sin 1850, 592, 326,6l2 bushels.
g OATs.-The oat, when considered in connection
with the artificial grasses and the nourishment anc
Improvement it affords to live stock may be regard
Eed as one of the most important crops we produce
Alts history is highly interesting, from the circum
sstance that while i'll many portions of Europe 1t l.
8 formed into meal, it forms an important alimen
man sort at least has been cultivated from
S tho days of Pliny on account of its fitness as al
Particle of diet for the sick The country of its nr
& igin is somewhat uncertain, though the most com
variety is said to be indigenous to the islanc
Eof Juan Fernandez. Another oat, resembling the
Scultivated variety, is also found growing wild III
ECalifornia.
9 This plant was introduced into the Nortl
s American Colonies after their settlement by
sthe English. 1t was sown by Gosnold on the Eliz
Sabeth Islands in 1902; cultivated in Newfound
! Gland in 1922 and in Virginia by Berkeley, prio
! to 1913.
81 The oat is hardy grain and is suited to eli
mates too hot too cold either for wheat or rye
Indeed, its flexbty is great that it is cultiva
Sted with success in Bengal, as low latitude TWEEN
five degrees north, but refuses to yield profitable
scrops as we approach the equator. 1t tourshe'
Sremarkaoly we'll when due regard Is pald 10 Lne
Reelection of varieties, throughout the inhabited
parts of Europe, the northern and central portion:
Aof Asia, Australia, Southern and Northern Africa
1.-THE cultivated regions of nearly all North America
gsand large portion of South America.
In this country the growth of the oat is confined
q principally to the Middle, Western and Northern
Estates. The varieties cultivated are the common
white, the black the gray, the imperial, the Hoi e
Stown, the Polish, the Egyptian, and the potato
Goat. The yield of the varieties varies from
forty to ninety bushels and upwards per acre, ant
sweghing from twenty-five to fifty pounds to the
Ebushel. The Egyptian oat is cultivated south Of
sTennessee which, after being sown in autumn, and
ed off by stock in winter and spring, yields from
ten to twenty bushels per acre. In the manutac
ture of malt and sprituous liquors, oats enter but
Alightly, and their consumption for this purpose
Hdoes not exceed 10000 bushels annually in the
SUnited States.
The oat, like rye, never has entered much into
%our foreign commerce. as the domestic consumption
shas always been nearly equal to the quantity pro-
Sduced. The annual average exports for several
Years preceding 1917, were 10000 bushels.
Il Bv the census returns of 1910 it will be seen
Sthat the total produce of the United States was
#I23, o71 ,341 bushels of 1850, 146,67e,879 bush
Gels.
81 MARRIAGES. A practice prevails in the publ
cation of marriages to announce that Miss A. mar
s red Mr. b. 1t may be species Of gallantry tc
name the lady first, but it is entirely out of place
&She does not marry the man-the man marres