Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-03-18
agricultural.
From the American Farmer.
PEABODY CORN.

Mr.. Peabody has sent to our order a cou-
pie of bushels of his corn, which, as noticed
elsewhere, we are selling at about so cts. a
pint, which will plant an acre; and pos
tage IS cts. a pint, if sent by mail-which
anust be prepaid. Mr.. Peabody, is the
Horticultural editor of the Alabama ''Soil
of the South" and we'll known as the orig
inator of the strawberry bearing his name,
figured in the last Patent Office Report
He gives the following directions for plant
ing the corn -
The following is the method by which the
twenty-five acres was planted and cultivated,
which took the first premium for the largest
yield, at the Alabama State Fair, held in
the city of Montgomery, November 18th,
1857:
The land was frequently plowed just be-
fore planting time, and then SUBSIDIZED as
deeply as two mules could pull the sub-soil
pillow. When we'll prepared, burrows were
run five feet wide, as deep as two long point
scooters, one after another, could open them.
In the bottom of this furrow, every four feet,
I dropped table spoonful of Guano. This
I covered with earth, and over it dropped
two grains of Corn. When the corn was
up, from four to six inches high, l thinned
it out to one stalk to hill, and gave it a
deep ploughing with scooter pillow.
All the after culture was given with the
horse hoe, an implement that stirs the soil
kills the grass, and leaves the surface per-
fectly level. When the corn is ten inches
to two feet high, it will begin to tiller.-
The tillers should not be taken off,
In rich soil, the tillers will be more nu-
merous than on poor-therefore, the better
the land, or the greater the quantity of ma
nure used, the more Corn.
Where this Corn is wanted for seed, it
should not be planted near any other kind
of corn, as corn will mix 200 yards.
Let it be remembered by the planter, that
the richer the soil the greater distance the
Corn should have, and in no case should
but one stalk be left in hill, and all the
tillers left to grow that may shoot.
On lands that will make thirty bushels
of the common Corn to the acre, one hun
dred of this Corn can easily be made, and
on rich Corn lands of the West, it will make
two hundred bushels to the acre, averaging
over sixty pounds to the bushel shelled.
CHARLES A. PEABODY
Mr.. Peabody writes us that the tillers of
his corn, are entirely unlike suckers-they
appear to be Independent of the main stalk;
yet they are connected at the bottom
Each stalk sent you is the product of one
seed. Many think this corn the Wyan-
dotte. You will at once see the great diff
ference. My corn is heavy firm corn,
good for herd and stock, and is a fine ship
ping corn" He has sent us some samples
of the corn on the stalk, which can be seen
at our Office.
COURTESY No man is gentleman, who,
without provocation, would treat with Incl
Witty the humblest of his species. It is a
vulgarity for which no accomplishments and
no attainments nor dress ever atone. Show
me the man who desires to make those hap
by around him, and I will show you gen
tleman by nature and practice, although he
may never have worn suit Of broadcloth
nor have heard of lexicon. sz1
EW-The mould on decayed fruit, stale
bread, moist wood, &C., is shown by the
microscope. to be plants, bearing leaves,
flowers. and seeds, and increasing with in
credible rapidity, for in a few hours the
seeds spring up. arrive at maturity, and
bring forth seeds themselves, so that many
generations are perfected in a day. $50
To KEEP MICE FROM GRAIN STACKS
Mice hate sulphur, and if farmers wish their
stacks of grain saved from their destruction,
they should when stacking, sprinkle little
-four of sulphur on the sheaves. One or
two ounces will keep stack of grain clear
of mice. This is done by many, and found
IN effecfual nreyciltatiye 49, -