Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-29
Written for the Memphis Aprssl.I
Is KING
BY GEORGE ". I T
III.

BY GEORGE ". GIFT.
7 viii now proceed to show that IL
bushels OF corn per acre is not so extra
ordinary s yield, but It may be attainel
under proper culture. I quote from al
article 10 the Patent Office report, 1850
81, entitled the Study of Soil, by Dan
lei Lee, NJ. D." NOW OF Knox county
Tsnn.) "T0 show what Americas sol
and climate have done, and ara eapablr
Of doing, We give below q statement o
the premium crops Of corn grown il
Kentucky in the year 1850. There weri
nine competitors, and the surface in CUl
tivation ten acres by each competitor
Their anne and the products of eseI
per acre, were as follows:
81. Matson, 81 barrels, 4 bushels and
quart Peter Pean, 81 barrels and
bushels s. H. Chew, 274 barrels; J
Hatchcraft, % barrels A Vanmeter, q
barrels and 81 bushels; H. Hedges, q
barrels and 2 bushels E. w. HOckaday
20 barrels DR. y. W. Dudley, 20 barrels
II. Vsrnon, 10 barrels and 5 bushels
The barrel is five bushels OF shelled c0rn
So Mr.. Matson produced lS9 bushels
and ! quart per acre, or 1890 busheis and
10 quarts IN ten acres. The entire sc
acres produced II, $40 bushels and Il
q1RTts-Per acre, 1872 bushels, 2l8 quarts
What has been done ia Kentucky may
De doEe in Tennessee, Mississippi or Ar.
kansas.
4 still greater yield was reported some
years since from the lands Of the Insane
Asylum at Columbia, -. Ca siUgle
acre produced 206 bushels of corn.
These wonderful examples are cited to
show what high culture q accomplish.
In the county of Shelby 20 bushels OF
corr per acre is probably avery fsir esti.
mate Of cur average crops. Nov / am
satisfied that if the labor now bestowed
on five aeres of land were concentrated
en- one the yield would be the same
and that labor would all be OF q
nature which would tend to ameliorRte
and improve the land instead of destroy
ing it as we now do, under our wastaf0l
practice Of shallow blowing and non
restitution. Further On | will discuss
his matter more in detail.
the crop Of oats is next in order. I
have before me may, very many, in-
stances where large + siis are reported as
yielding more than sixty bushels to the
acre. That quantity will probably be
considered large here where too little
attention has heretofore been given TO
this very Important crop. Important for
two reasons /. Il furnishes an sbun-
dance Of forage OF the very best kind for
work animals ut a season when the feed
should be changed or mixed, and il will
also allow the farmer 8 larger surplus of
corn to briDesforward has hogs. 2. Il
has been shown te be the best grain with
which to seed clover, a crop which We
shall now consider as the last in the ro-
tstion Of cotton, corn, oats and clover.
The Rev. c. w. Howard, OF Living
st0D, Ga, s very sound writer, ssys on
page $40 Agricultural Report, 1856. that
sin 1850 the butter crop OF New York
sold for twice as much as the cotton crop
of Georgia, although that year the latter
was more than 00,000 bsles.n II We
should inquire how this very valuable
crop {bu5tsr) vas produced, we would
learn that hay was at the foundation Of
It, In other words, without nay there
would have been 70 hutter, hence the
Importance ofEay to New York agricuI-
ture viii be CLEARLY seen. The hay crop
OF her farmers, sold in the form Of butter,
is eqaal to 400, coo bales OF cotton per
sDnum.
Go all through your city and see al
every grocery and in every market
Northern butter, brought here to sell
under our very noses, when We could
and should produce the same at 3 much
less cost than they Of the North. Why
do We rot do Il? We haze no hay! In
der : 6oTgecs system OF farming we can
and will produce an ~in11aease quantity
- - - ~, ~ -, fs-~a 1a1..1~,ao
oar cotton crop. This is one of the great
advantages Ger elimats has. We can
rave everything they have at the AOrth,
and grow cotton. a staple which will yet
control the commerce OK the world.
MIR. Ross Winaus, Of Baltimore, deter
mined a few years since to esteoilsh a
model wholesale sweet milk dairy neal
that city He purchased 700 acres Of
land for $4,000, and spent something
over 500 COO for manure for the same, to
make hay for his cattle. he cut 1850
tons Of hay from Ii in 4 ssa-on, QS579
and his gross sales Of milk and hay
amounted to ver S4S, 900. 10 will be OBJ
ssFyed that the average yield was two
and a half tong Of hay per acre, which
was regarded by Northern agricultural
journals as very hre. To show that We
maY 90 C6Lttg tAAA LuAtf ASIc Al 0ncios
county, l will mention the crop Of DE-.
Rawlings, grown on his place On the
Randolph plank read, eleven miles from
The Doctor seeded seven acres Of
oats TO clover in the spring Of 81 this
summer he moved 1t once, and housed
thirty. three tons Of hay; being more
thar four and 3 half tons per acre. l
measured the ground and computed the
quantity, allowing 1000 cubic feet Of hay
as It stood in the barns, 20 be equal to a
ton. This pile of hay turned into batter
ia worth 5000; into beef not less than q
thousand. L ink on it, ye exclusive
extensive cotton farmers, turn it
around, and turn it yer and see II 1t is
not q good thing to have. And think on
it, We men WAC aye ponderiug about
home improTement-you men VINO build
I'D this great country-Iook at il. From
seven acres Of land comes feed for thirty
three COWS for one hundred days. Three
thousand pounds Of butter will be the
result, which when removed, carries with
il not an atom OF the wealth OF the s0il.
Then lock at your manur hesp. At
least $50 tons to go back to your seven
acres TO make it produce cotton as We
have never seen It befors,