Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1861-05-17
PLANT CORN.

The New York Tribune gives some very
wholesome advice on the subject of increasing
largely, the territory to be cultivated In corn
this year. Tn this latitude it is still time to
profit BIZ IT, As the season is. corn planted
yellow varlety--any time up TIL the Goth
inst, will just do as well as that which was put
into tie ground q week ago. Every farmer
may yet fnd few acres suitable, which be
did not intend SO TO occupy. We also urge
upon ali. while they can, to put every foot of
ground they can spare, 10 requisition for eul
! twisting this most useful crop. Don't fear
there will be no market or price for it. IF
there should not be as soon as il il ripe il will
keep till there is demand Get the crop in
anyhow by little attention it viii grow aud
can be harvested at your leisure. The Tribune
goes on to say:
SIN times Of high excitement ike this the
agricultural districts feel it as keenly as the
cities, and are quite as likely to neglect their
farms as We are 10 leave our desks aud work
shops. Look at the condition Of some portion
of the South even now. Illinois has saved
some parts of Miss. from starving, for they
had raised all cotton aud no corn. The whole
rebel region is, n fact, at this moment depen-
ent on Northern granares for food. Cut off
their supplies, aud they must perish or sue
cumb.
HOST happily, the North is bouutifully sup
piled with food Of all kinds. Bur our -four,
and grain, and beef, aud pork. are constantly
leaving US for Europe in large quantities. We
shall probably this year export more food than
in any similar period in cur hisory. England
alone waits every hushcI Of grain aud every
barrel Of meat We can spare. This drain
must empty our granaries and warehouses;, run
ming up prices even higher than at present, and
making the coming drops our soie dependence
/ for the future. Every idle acre should there
I fore be plsnted, now, while time and oPporiu-
/ nity permit it to be doue. Every bushei of
corn raised viii be wanted. No one knows
/ but bali a ml!ion Of men mlY yet be headed TO
/ finish up this rebellion In a way 20 make the
4 peace as lasting as we lBtead it shall be. The
country has resolved that it will na longer have
/ Its industry blasted every few years, either by
/ eo2tromlsa or rebellion. Remember, friends,
we are lighting to preserve the Government
I itself Compromise is dead, but rs6eIilgn i
alive and rampant We iutead to crush il
and preserve tie Union, cost what ii mag.--
/ Bat in the mean time, while one army looks 20
its maskets, let the army of farmers look TO it's
/ eorn6elds. The South cannot plant either corn
/ or cotton as aforetinie Thousands who cnlli-
/ vaie corn are already flying from their planta-
/ ions. Every ship that reaches our harbors,
every train that enters our deaots, is crowded
with fugitives abandoning every thing 10 save
| their lives. We have full evidence that the
slaves in many places already hesitate to work
/ as usual, aud cannot be lashed into il with the
old impunity. How many ields of grain that
may be already planted will be trampted un-
der foot Of Northern armies, which ceatinu-
alton of this unparalleled rebellion must COM
| pei us to march over in crushing it out T.
Bear 10 mind that more than forty forts, and
mlnts, and arsenals, aud custom houses must
/ be captured from the rebels. OF surrendered at
| discretion. There is no mstaking the magui.
/ tude of the work to be done, but were il thrice
a. heavy 1t would be done nevertheless.
/ All this will require men-Northern men
men from the plow as we'll as we'll as from the
workshop aud the NINE Never have farmers
been so imperatiEely called on to plant every
possible acre within their power. The hume
market alone will par them. TIE South must
be fed by the North aoother year, aud if the
/ political troubles 10 Europe should end in .
+ general war. demand masE follow shch viii
make cur farmers rich Be active, friends,
while he season is before yoa Double the
size Of your cornfelds- somebody will want
all yonr crop.