Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-08-31
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each one with thirty. bushels Of corn. A
bushei OF corn contains sixty pounds of
solid grain. Now suppose the crop eighty
millions of bushels (and this yoar it will be
more), aud you have as the seasons crop
four thousand eight hundred millions OF
pounds of grain besides, as much weight
in fodder. 1t is almost inconceivable in
magnitude just for the State of Ohio. If
you reflect that wheat averages but little
moro than onethird as much to the acre,
and containing no more pounds to
the bushel, you see that it falls far short
OF corn in its positive utiltarian val
ue. 1t is true that by the very fact
OF its less production it is higher in
price, but when you como to bring
wheat down to every day uses it is
inferior in variety and value to corn. 1t
may be distilled. 1t may bo fed to cattle,
but the inferiority Of its production per
aero is in this climate decided. In HIGH
northern latitvdc the advantage might be
in favor of wheat. Let US now turn to the
corn statistics Of the United State, and see
how we are advancing in this wonderful.
plant. Tho statistics of the production ,of
corn in the United States for the last twen-
ty.fve years a:e as follows, viz:
Bushels.
ln lS40, total crop, 1851 ,s75
In 1850, total crop, 5o2,G7l, lo4
In 1860, total crop, s3o,45l, 7O7
In 1866, total crop (estima.
ted), 1,039,Ooo 900
The increase being at the rate Of per
cent. FER annum, the aggregate crop of
1866 will be over one thousand millions of
bushels Estimate this at sixty cents per
bushef, and conceive, if you can the feed
ing power of this enormous quantity Of
Indian corn. Three or four Years ago
corn was 80 abundant in Illinois that
it was used for fuel. The chief use Of
corn is the production of carbon, in
the animal stomach, and this production
can be carried on in the stomach of almost
all animals from the feathered biped TO the
u"ssatbcred biped, man. AS We see, how
ever daily. before US, it is chiefly applied
To cattle, hogs aHd horses, and certainly
we must consider this SO a wonderfully lug
urious country, where our 1emcstic AMI.
mails command food fit for the d..;a,;.st
man. .,
Let us next consider the portions OF
the United States where Indian corn is the
staple, in comparison with othor grains:
New England, New York and New
Jersey, 3s, ,o4s, $50 bushels.
;, Pennsylvania, Maryland. Delaware, Vir.
ginia, North Carolina and South Carolina,
l2s,99s,24o bushels.
Georgia, Florida Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, l47, ,425,.
-726 bushsls. - ....-. e..
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Missouri Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas, $50, ,e27 ,o43
bushels. -. :. -
The enormous prepond eranee Of Indian
corn in the central West is here obvious.
But we should remark that the States Of
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnessota and
Kansas have prodnoed but very small
portion of this, and that, in fact, half tho
immense crop of Indian corn, grown in the
United States il; produced in the Valley of
the Ohio and Missouri. No doubt the
main cause Of this is climatic, but does not
depend on the most southern climate. It.
depends on a combination of warmth hu-
midity and Limestone, which is nowhere
found ip such o combination, 40 in the, Ohio
Valley. Indian corn is grown.in France,
Italy, the West Coast PARTS Of Asia; &c,
40, but nowhere is there climate adap-]
ted toit % good az that. Of the, Valley Of
the Ohio. ;.,@ :. :. &. &, ....'... S.,
= We should remark. here, that maize I
Qodian corn) is an American plant, and
i would almost seenf from the historical
and collateral evidence, 70 Be q ss native i of
this very region Of country. j Dr. ,Pioka,-
iog,ia bic .Racss o Man, "a u,os. valuable
:Hotk-~says that the plant most widely
cultivated Id aboriginal "A rdsficss 10 Tie
maize, OF Iudian corr. If : Il shall Prove
foreign, there is but one ronta open Is ia
.intfoduc.ion of Japan. Is il fursi,s.I
or manifest that from ths stosxl shsenoe: ssoE t
the Planh that North eaiiforhis s5, 5Naa Ssuot
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