Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-18
Planting Germ in Drills.

The subject of planting corn in drills i
attracting a good deal Of attention, an,
experienced growers advance the opinion
that corn thus planted will produce fully
ten bushels more 10 the acre. A gentle,
man who has had long experience il
growing corn, and having Travelled in mos
OF the corn growing States for severa
years, in a business that brought him in
contact with some Of the best farm
ers in the United States, communicates
20 the Prairie Farmer the results of his
experience and observation. He ex.
presses himself a. fully satisfied that the
corn growers of this country might save
millions of dollars every year il they
would adopt the drill system of planting.
and use the right kind of implements in
the preparation, planting and cultivation
Of the crop After entering into a mi
mute calculation TO show the saving in the
cost of cultivating the drill over the hill
planted corn, amounting to $24I on one
hundred acres Of corn, over the old fogy
way Of raising corn, and a saving Of S97
on one hundred acres over the best and
cheapest way corn can be possibly
grown in hills, this odd Farmer" says
Now we will suppose that drill planted
corn will turn ont one-fourth more 10 the
acre than hill planted, and that forty
bushels is a fair crop, planted in hills The
drilled corn would produce fifty bushels
per acre, or ten bushels more than hill
planted corn, and that the average price
yearly in Northern Illinois ia tifty cents
per bushel, giving the farmer s. more per
acre, when drill planted, thus giving him
on 100 acres a clear gain of S97 on the cost
Of raising over hill planting, and $500
more worth Of corn, making saving of
S597 over hill planting. "Bui." saws some
incredulous farmer, 81 30 not believe the
result would be a. you have stated"
know of one man who tried il "a an
experiment aud the result was as many
bushels from three rows drill corn. AZ from
four rows planted in hills and side bv side
in the same field. could produce his afli-
davit, If II was necessary.
/ know that many farmers Object n
planting in drills, because they think tba,
the weeds will grow in them. This OBJ
lection is entirely obviated by using
light barrow and thoroughly narrowing all
the ground about the time the corn Is
ready 90 come up.
know Of farmers who have pracliced
narrowing their corn for twenty wears
without any regard 20 the hills or drills
One, q gentleman in Wisconsin. told me a
ew weeks ago, that he narrowed his corn
last season after il was three OF four inches
high, and narrowed il thoroughly through
the hills, and that he killed millions of
weeds in the rows by the operation, and did
not injure the corn in the least Ii Is one
Of the best plans ever adopted for killing
the weeds IN the rows, and louseninr the
top Of the soil 80 that the corn can spring
up freely, especially where the soil Is in
clined 10 bake and become hard, aud where
corn or potatoes are narrowed well before
coming out Of the ground much. would
not give anything for hand hoeing, If a
good cultivaior and hitler were thoruughly.l
used after the narrowing. | should much
rather pay a good man and horse 81 per
day az he had good cultivator) than 70
pay a man with hand hoe 25 cents day,
10 work in field Of corn or potstoes for me.