Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-28
Putting up the Corn Crop.

Mr.. EDITOR Some kind friend did me the
favor to send me the weekly Delta of the 9Th
inst, marking the following article. I don't
know who to thank for it, but think the advice
SO valuable Especially that of putting lock on
the crib door, that l send it to you in hopes
that you will pass it round.
| 1 think a good many of us will be able in a
few weeks to express on opinion on the policy
of putting up corn in the shuck acet, don't be-
| lieve in it myself although have done so this
season-by compulsion. l have been informed,
! that in this climate it is liable to become mil
dewed or mouldy, and would recommend it to
those who have housed their corn acet, to look
well after it, and turn it over and give it air, if
they find it heating in the slightest degree.
Corn will no doubt be very dear the coming
season, and we cannot commence too soon to
take care of and economist what we have made
What horrid season we have had! since the
10th of September, up to this date 18th of Oc-
tober, "a period of four weeks) there have been
but seven days, in which have been able to
haul any wood, and I am more favourably
suited for hauling, than ninety-nine in one hun
bred planters. There are many planters in this
parish who have little or no wood yet at their
sugar houses, and who of course must be greatly
retarded in taking off their crops. Three or
four weeks have been irretriveably lost, and if
the season should be an unfavorable one from
this time forward, there will be good many ex-
pectations not realized. TERREBoSNE.
"The corn crop suffers less from exposure to
the weather than cotton, but is nevertheless
losing and wasting all the time which it is per-
mitted to remain in the field, and ought there
fore to be gotten out and securely housed as
soon as possible.
When the cotton is open and exposed, and the
weather favorable for picking, it would not be
deemed good advice, yet awhile, to stop, to
make business Of gathering the corn; yet,
rains come occasionally, which wet the cotton
and unfit it for nice picking for time; these
occasions should be well improved in attending
to the corn, which is nothing worse for little
wetting. The outside shuck may be reached
by the rain, but the ear is not easily wet, and
may therefore be gathered at such wet times.
We have found those who advocated the putting
up in the shuck, when the corn is wet enough
to heat, and kill the weevil. This may be a
good doctrine, and safe practice. We are not
Of those, however, who believe it. We think
the corn ought to be dry when it is housed, and
kept SO. For corn which is to stand through
the year, we regard the plan of slip-shucking
rs very good, keeping it in heater condition, and
freer from waste, possibly, freer from the weevi |
The history and the habits of this little insect |
we do not claim to understand, so well as to |
speak confidently. 1t is sometimes, possibly
always, carried from the field to the crib. We
10 not, yet, say more about gathering the corn,
han that it would be better off in the crib or
The barn, than in the field, and as soon as you
nave an opportunity, put it there, and if you
rave not made more than some other folks, you
lad as well put lock on the door. 1t is often
. great blessing to see danger when it is yet in
he distance. From what we hear, it will not
'equire much Of the prophets skill to see that
;orn is going to be dreadfully scarce. Take care!