, 1866-08-30

a Husftc1 or Corn--ShellInE for Market
- -Vnfnc Of C0bS for Fucf-SOvlnE Oats
and BuckSvhcat with Winter Wheat
vs. StrnsE-StiMner Apples for Market
Pure Cider ylncEnK.
From Our Own Correspondent
CuAxPA1dS. August 81.
A bushcl Of shclled corn is fifty six pounds,
and bnshci In The car Of new corn Ia con-
sidercd scventy-fivc, aud Of dry corn in the
car seventy pounds. Seventy pounds Of
sood,.corn in the car will yield Of shcllcd corn
fifty-sevcu pounds cobs, twelve and half
pounds waste, half a pound total, seventy
pounds. A bushcl Of cobs weigh fourteen
pounds, and au ordinary load, sucl, as Is sold
at the steam shelters, measure about forty
bushels or six hundred pounds. The price
at the sheileris usually fifty cents or one dol
lar per load delivered. Taking this MS the
commercial value of cobs for fuel, VIC have
Que cent bushel for the cobs at the sheller,
or two cents delivered. It may therefore be
set down Us O fact that the cobs
of a bushcl Of corn delivered ore
worth two cents for fuel, and the one pound
saved in selling shelled corn over ear corn,
Al forty cents bnshel, Is worth seven mills,
making two and three fourths cents dttfer-
cncc between car and shellcd corn. Now,
suppose the farmer hauls one load . day to
narket, Of forty bushels, weighing twenty
eight hundred pounds, he hauls flvc hundred
and sixty pounds that bring him nothing.
Estimating the days work q four dollars,
VIC have siSty-seveu cents as the proportion
for this extra hauling, or one and three
fonrths cents on bushel. Add this to two
md three. .fousths cents, hud ne have four
and half cents difference In value between
the farmer loads his corn into car instead Of
warehouse, and ships It to Chicago In hts
own account, say from St. Louis, which Is
about the averase distance to ship this grain
In our own State. See how the former stands
with mixed corn:
Freight on 100 bushcls...-.. so.5o
Haulins 3so0 0ns................ .......... soo
OGeet the she1lng against tho cobs and
com 4oyn aud we have total eost>-.-.>-~. $ts.59
1CU bushels sold ht-.. .-.-....-..+..-.... tS.!o
ya1uc at the crib. ...... 5000
Hauling 7.oS ~ corn to the depot theilcd 1870
| 100 bushels sold ........... ......"-..... 4a0o
value at Tho crib........ >. ............ szaoo
| 4 slight difference Of seyen cents q haShel.
The farmer who can haul Two 1oads day
| will Of course make & less loss: hut as the
loads do not .7srage $500 pounds each, we
arc s=Tie in estimating that as an average
the present prices; bnt it Is noticeable that
the marCin between shellcd and ear corn re-
mains the same, without regard to the price
per bpsllel. With the aid Ola slate and pen,
Gil and these figures, any farmcr can count
up for himself the loss in not shellinE his
own corn. Any steam shelter can she'll corr
for the exttn pound Of shellcd corn and the
c0bs.
The place to shell the corn Is on the farm
when the corn is to be hauled any distance
No farmer can afford more than ono commls
sion In selling his corn, but according to the
common psacticc he pays At least two, and
ono fthem pretty large per cent. a com.
mon hnnd. .s1,cllcr With pnlly attached, &C
as to run with IN endless chaiu power, With
ono horse, will shell twenty bushels an hour,
| and The two-horse power shelters will donble
that amount mud only need some three men
to run II, so TINT the shelllng will not cost
| much, II auy, over three ceuts bushc1
Every person who bas used cobs for fuel
knows that 4hcy arc worth more than coal
ton for ton. Assuming coal to to worth flve
dollars = ton, or onc-fourth OF = cent pound
tho cohs ftom bushcl Of corn would bt
worth over three cents.
This all mny look like sm81l bustncss to tht
largo fhrmer, but It must be borne In mlud
that In Illinois the proat on bushcl OF corr
Is not lorEc, and eavIng OF three or sever
cents on buahcl IL worth looking nttor.
Any farmer who buys coal for fuel shonls
she'll every bushel Of corn that he eithel
feeds or soils, nnd ho will soon savc the cos
Of 4 shcllcr. There IL alWaya enough Q