Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-28

Kind reader have you any definite no
ton how many bushels of corn are usu-
ally grown upon an acre of land IN
this State? Grolcn siafy Perhaps you
have, and then perhaps you have not. L
don't believe there is an average OF one
farmer to a county who has grown thir
ty bushels of shelled corn, measured IN
February, for three consecutive years IN
the State during the last twenty-five
years. Nor do / believe that there are
FIVE farmers in the State who grow TWEEN
ty acres in each year that yields fifty
bushels. As for so and 100 bushels of
corn to the acre, measured as | said, In
February, think it is about as probable
as that Barnum has obtained a part of
the North Pole, and is showing it at his
museum, and yet Oh, most wondering
reader, do not understand me that the
thing cannot be done. But do you know
how much corn shrinks from the time it
is harvested till it is thoroughly cured,
say in February or March? Well, l will
tell you it is one quarter.
With Western corn 1t is possible to
raise one hundred bushls of shelled
corn upon an acre. planted some of
the Northern Ohio Red-Cob Dent last
spring. 1t came up late, but after all /
made a crop of sixty bushels of shelled
corn to the acre, though had only nine
ty bushels of ears of sound corn on the
same surface. Under the most favorable
circumstances of land and season / could
be made to believe that one hundred
bushels of shelled corn had been grown
upon an acre. But it's not oftener than
one In one hundred thousand.
By the way, should advise those far
mers in the wheat counties to try few
acres of the Red-cOb Dent Plant early,
on good ground and you will find it pays.
I did, and shall plant again this Spring,
somewhat extensively. It is as early as
the big Dutton, and much more pro-
ductive.
IF corn be planted in hills 81 feet each
way, there will be 3,555 hills in an acre.
Allowing that each hill has four stalks
and each stalk a good sound ear, and
there would be of common corn ffty-fOur
bushels to an acre. Four ears of corn,
well cured will weigh a pound, from
which there should be deducted Ill for
cob Did you ever think, my friend, how
much you lost if you did not have your
full number of hills and each hill its four
good stalks? You can see now why your
very sharp neighbor always gathers his
seed corn from the stalks bearing two or
more ears.
"AU gd813l1Oll !''
Well you may probably think so, but
[ happen to know better, for by that
means I have added nearly or quite one
attended to it, see an Improvement the
next.
Plant IN the naooni'
No, sir, plant in the ground, and get
that in the best possible order Plow
and manure well, and plant the moment
the ground is warm enough for the corn
to vegetate quick, aud make a rapid
growth Begin cultivation the moment
the corn is up an inch, and do not stop
till its too high to work among safely
Make your rows straight as possible and
you will find much comfort in after-cul-
ture
I used Shares harrow last year, by
taking off the front teeth and reversing
the next one on each side, put on two
horses, and it did splendid work; but its
rather clumsy to handle when turning
[ understand that they have better ar
ticle up in Illinois: why don't they let us
see one here ?-P.