Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-12-22
fnmer's department.
tFfom the Germantown Telegraph
Another Great Corn Crop.


There is no doubt but that the crop of corn
this season is the heaviest ever produced in
eastern Pennsylvania, consequently we hear
| Of large crops per acre, and very many there
are that doubtless approximate closely to one
hundred bushels per acre, so seldom realised
and by so few believed.
In most Of The statements, it appears that
the lucky owner was honestly satisfied with II
little measuring and some guessing, that
there was one hundred bushels of corn on his
acre (; yet. to an outsider, this statement eX-
hibits but little more than that some one
appears to have raised one hundred bushels
or more per acre while uS to the mOdus O,Jer-
dndi by which SO large Il crop had been grown,
and which is u matter Of particular interest
to those who have to be content with orty
or fifty bushels-we are left entirely in the
daik-consequently more concise and OK
plicit statements are desirable.
James Thornton. Jr., and Edmond Thorn
ton, of Byberry, being satisfied that they had
a very superior crop of corn called OH their
| neighbors, Edward Comfort and Morton "A.
Walmsley who assisted them to measure off
one acre of the middle of the field, which on
being sheled and well cleaned produced one
hundred and two bushels and twenty-one
quarts of corn, which was sold for eighty
cents per bushel The corn cns sheiIed By
one Of Rcaaing's Corn Shelters in .Gtty-sir
minutes!
The field contained nine acres, timothy sod
had been moved three times there were
sixty OK cart loads of harnyard manure spread
on the field in the fall-plowed from the 9th
to the 18th of April, six inches deep. rolled
| and well.harrowel. The corn was planted in
the first week of May, in rows AZ wide and
feet apart in rows. 3 grains in each hill, after.
wards thinned down to two stalks; gill oI
ashes. unleached, was applied to each hill u,
the time OF planting. The corn was well
worked with cultivator and plow, one udy-
and cut up and shocked in the usual manner
! The corn was q variety which the Messrs
| Thornton had produced from a mixture O.
| the Cooper aud Guurd corn, which they have
justly styled the "'rhornton Prolific Corn"
The Messrs. Thornton had another field o.
fourteen acres in with corn, but on clover sod
which was treated in similar manner will
that above referred to. excepting there wa:
no manure applied in the full-there were
three acres Of this field injured by the wir,
worm, yet on the whole crop they estimate 10y
the contents Of their cribs. that the yield from
the twenty-three acres was 2l50 bushels
The following is copy Of the certficut,
given by Messrs Comfort and Walns,ey -
We, the undersigned, assisted james an,
Edmond Thornton in the measurment q
one acre OF heir corn ground, and being pre-
sent at the hauling in, sheling, cleaning ant
measuring of the curu, do certify that th
quantity of gram obtained from the said acre
according to strict and accurate measurmeur
was one hun: red and two bushels and twenty
one quarts of well-ceuned corn. This wa
taken from a field of about nine acres an
from our frequent opportunity Of observin
the crop throughout the season, we belivc
to be fair average OF the field.
EDWARD COMFORT,
MoRToS A. WANsLEY
Byberry, 23d ward / mo. 20th, 1888.