Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-12-16
Eov One Hpndred BusheIs Of CO..,
IS GROWN TO THE ACRE YEAR AFTER YEAR IN sEEEC
COUsJY, \. Y.

JOSEPH WRIGHT commenced high farming
in Indian corn some eight years ago. He
took large field ofsandy loan that had been
worn to the sub-soil by hard usage; straight
ened the brook that ran through it into a
broad deep ditch which debauched into Sen
eca Outlet; then be put in lateral underdrains
of pipe tile, thirty to forty inches deep, and
from twenty to forty feet apart. On this field of
twenty acres he drew many loads ofstallna-
nure during the winter, feeding his own large
stock ofboEines daily ratiens ofstill slop on the
same field, using his fatting cattle to draw the
same from the distllery. In the spring the
lot was powed; the chemical effect Of so much
urine left by the cattle on the surface soil had
now completely changed its color from hun
CRY drab to a dark chocolate. The corn was
planted early in May with the eighteen
rowed yellow dent corn grown in Ohio, in
hills four feet apart, north and south, three
and half feet east and wesi; it was cultiyab=
ed with a ive-t7oth steel cuItiVator as soon
as the plants began to appear, in order to let
in sunshine and hasten the groth, while it al
so destroyed the weeds. The hoe was used
only to hill up the corn very little, and to
clear the weeds around it; but the cultivator
was used until the corn reached abo7e the
horses back, as often as the surface needed stir
ring, without waiting for the weeds to grow.
This corn was ripe, cut up, and hauled of
very early in September; then a euldvator
lsveled the hills and prepared the grouned to
receive timothy seed, which was Immediately
sown; the next summer he cut a good crop Of
timothy hay, and the season after a monsuous
crop of the same. Two crops Of hay might
have been made the second season, but be
turned in his horses and bovines to pasture
the second crop, planting the field again with
corn the next season, getting the second
heavy crop Of corn.
This field has been planted to corn every
year since, receiving every winter from
twenty to twenty-five loads Of green stall
manure to the acre. The yield has never been
less than one hundred and fFty to sixty bush-
els of ears to the acre, three bushels of ears
making two Bushels of shslled corn; the ears
were large, many Of them nine inches long,
and filed to the tip end; the cob very small,
and the collar only stem Of half to five
eighths Of an inch in thickness, but the ker-
nels are very long; some Of the ears yeild
three tuI giIls Of corn. But it IS necessary to
have selected western corn every. year for
seed, as in our climate the dent runs out, the
cob grows larger and the kernels shorter and
more round, every year eOnsecudvely more
aud more, when the seed is grown here. Al
though it requires highly manured warm
soil to grow this corn it takes no more labor
to plant and tend it than flint corn, and the
cereal yield has proven to be one-third more
when planted side by side Some Of our as
tute Fayette farmers are now growing this
variety of corn with such success that they
will never. go back to the flint corn. Mr.
Wright cuts up his corn very early to save
his fodder perfect, puts it in large stocks,
where the stalks cure " ell and are fit to haul
in, husk and mow-away in later fall. Some
are husked in the field and kept in stocks un-
til needed to cut up with the ssalk-outter in
March and April; these large Hgneous stalks
are cut fine and treated with Indian meal for
his $50 head of equines and bovines. He
grows much timothy and but little clover, for
the reason that his land is so highly manured
that the clover lodges. He has lately leased
poor, badly worn field, on which to grow
clover hay by the aid Of surplus manure; for.
although clover draws more Of its nourish-
ment from the atmosphere than the eerdal
grasses, it fails to grow on an exhausted soil.
S. WILLIAMS.
SENECA FALLS, Nov, 1868.