The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-11-11
WHOLE No. 6S3.
agricultural.

| W. c nave heretofore published para
graph stating the large crop of corn raised
on all acre, the present year, by Mr.. Smith.
Editor of The Snow It'll Shield. Below is
his statement in regard to It, which we copy
from his paper. 1t is attested by the certiti-
cate of several gentlemen, among them two
who were also competitors for tho same
premium of the State Agricultural Society.
Certificate OF the Product of the
100 EfNsssc9-Acre Of Corn.
The undcrsisned competitor for the prem
ium on the best one acre Of corn to be award
ed by the Maryland State Agricultural So
cicty," at its exhibition OF 1854, makes the
following statement Of the mode of cultivation.
measurement, &C., of the same, and refers to
the certificate annexed required by the rules
of the Society.
The said acre Of land near Snow Hill, in
Worcester county, is embraced in a lot of
two and half acres, on which large yield
of Australian Wheat was harvested in 1858,
last year, and followed the same year by
crops of Buckwheat, Rata baga Turnips and
Irish Potatoes. These second crops produced
an abundant yield, though the land had not
been MANFRED for their production. The
same land in the m onth of May was ploughcd
deeply, (say 10 inchcs,) narrowed and laid
olFin rows for drill corn at irregular distances.
Some of the rows being as wide as seven and
one half feet, and others as narrow as four
and one half feet apart. The corn was left
to grow in the rows at an average space be-
tween the stalks of about twelve inches. The
first tillage was given with common cult
vator which passed twice in row, and this
was succeeded by using the plough but once,
TO throw the earth from the middle Of the
rows toward the growing corn. The third
and last tillage it received was given by the
cultivator used as in the first tillagc.
The corn at planting was merely wctted
with brine and rolled in plaster. Guano was
applied in the usual way in the drilled rows
before planting, at the rate of POO lbs. to the
acre. 1t was then covered by the harrow
and roller and light top dressing of fresh
stable manure was applied to each row, and
a cultyator run by the sides of each, in order
to throw small portion of earth over the
manure to rctard the evaporation Of the same
as applied.
This is all the cultivation and manuring
the land received for the crop.
The measurement of the land was made by
two of the best practical Surveyors, David
X. Hopkins and Iittlcton r. Purncll, Esqs.,
who laid off the acre from which the corn was
gathered ON the day upon which it was pluck
ed.
The product of the acre amounted by ac-
tual measurement to one hundred and sevrn-
ty-one bushels Of corn in the ear, twcnty-six
which fills to the customary measurement
Of a common half:bushel, cqualing tiftytwo
cars to the bushcl of unshclld, and one hun
drcd and four cars to the bushcl of shcltd
corn, according to the common mode of call
culation, but according to actual experiment
l04 ears of this corn make bushel one peck
one gallon and one quart when shcled, and
accordingly the estimate of the yield of
this one acre is 100 and onc-quarter BUSH
els, one gallon and three quarts of sh@led
corn. G. w. p. SMITH.