New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-11
Nkm9lork Daily Gribm,.s
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
THE INDIAN CORN CROP.

Farmers, are you ready ARE you ready to plaot
the seed of this most important Of all American crops
grass only excepted
If you not ready, yo1 have no time to lose Now
to-day is the TINA to think and to get ready. In this
altitude the Goth Of May has long been established as
the night time for planting Indian corn, and it is gener
Ally thought that the less deviation from tina. PERIOD
he better il will be for the product.
There is another period, and one Of 70 little import
snce, homely as it may seem, for fixing the proper
time for putting the seed corn in the ground. 1t is
iay in the calendar of the aborgines, which our PHI
grim fathers founi established among these original
corn planters. In answer TO the question, What
time in the Spring do you plant corn" the answer
was, when the leaves upon the oak trees are Is
large as the Of the squirrels that sun themselves on
The branches then squaws plant the seed that has
been so carefully preserved in the smoke of wig
wamt.'
There is much truth in the old Indian rule, both in
preserving the seed which was hung up in clusters of
cars by the braided husks to the poles Of the wggam
and in the time of planting 1.-THE time pointed out by
nature not the almanac, when the ground had become
sufficiently warm to insure rapid vegetation.
We have known many New-Eogland farmers who
rigidly adhered to the Indian rule and watched the
general appearance of the oak trees for the time to
plant corn
Experience has proved that the Goth of Msy, as a
general rule corresponds very well with tho time OF
putting forth oak leaves as large as squirrels ear,
and then i. il the .test time for planting. That day
close at hand.
Now, farmers are you ready for upon this depends
this great this most valuable and important crop-s
crop tina. American. would need q long training TO
learn how TO do without. A crop that would be ess
sssly dispensed with than any other one known, be-
cause there are millions Of human beings IN these
United States, who rely upon il as the stspe OF their
existence. II is the source too, OF very large pro-
portion Of al our "a. beef mutton, pork lard, and our
"a. roast turkeys geese ducks and other birds and it
enters very largely into the clothing Of our bohes
heads and feet since wool and hides come from corn
and without that az food for the aborer, we do not
see how cotton crop would be grown, SIEGE the tong
slave thinks himself poorly fed upon other food than
corn bread and bacon that he could not do his hard
and hot feld.work, If fed upon lean meat and vhea,
-four.
Indian com then il the gras American stap,e-,he
srsnd necessity Of all American agriculture. The grand
success in ts production IT, first of oil, in the prepara'
ION Of the seed, and the soil in which it is to he
planted.
The great the immense importance to all the people
Of this country Of this crop warrants Us in appealing
most earnestly to every individual who will or can at
tempt to grow it, TO make On effort this year 70 In
crease the product per acre and in doing lessen the
expense of production.
It'll our candid opinion that an annual increase of
Ten per cent on the expense of growing Indian corn
vsud add fifty per cent on the average TO the product
of all the acres planted Can farmers increase the1
profits so easily in any other way
"a xr
general yield as this Of Indian We think that In
all the Southern States, excluding the aluvions, the
average per acre will not equal ten bEshes, while
crop Of forty bushels upon some Of the richest rver
bottoms is considered rst-rste one II is not very
surprising that the yield is so light Look how It
planted-tha. is, IN many, if not in most instances.
negro man or woman with small mule and .
.plow-three sticks OF wood and piece OF IRON
goes 70 the field and scratches two or three marks
about two inches deep in the loose earth IN the place
where the rows are 10 be- leaving the mddles TO De
broke OFT after the corn is planted ard has come
up. This is part Of the cultivation 81 tending the
crop and this, as well as ali subsequent powngs, s
done with the same implement-;he shoyelplow.
We have seen many fields that hal been planted
avery year 70 since The fores. Destroyed that
neveE had been powed four inches deep, aud never
had shovel full of manure, and yet with suoh ssht
scratching OF the surface have ala fto were
expected still to produce crop OF grain that requires
ieep,y-worked, ich soil. II Is no wonder that sucn
eeds 10 lot produce ten bushels 70 the acre. and II u
cot subject for question that they might be made 10
yield fry. Not, however by planting, as their own
srs frequently do, one s.sk place, tsree to i've
Zee: apar:.
That there Is 10 necessity for such miserable crops
even upon he light pine Hood snds OF TIE Sum, has
been fully proved, over and offer. Ever .s:; seH'r'
Charles A. Peabody Of Columbus, Ga, r,sei rp'o
he Ugh; !srd on he opposite sio Z :ts rver' n Aa
lama, sversge Q: over 10 t1sasls pc scre' %
Geld Q: ~ aces al !: is s:lsi ]. ne sony err
papers tss. ia, over 10 busLe.s were groSl .as'
year -por o,e sc-e Il Souta Csr-iIrA We rope ne
sa-sne-. a1i,eatic, All il VII &c. gu as.tlI
s:es: r-ry Other sores il "a: sac tt- C - 81
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