The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-03-19
Cultivation of Indian Corn.

Corn is cereal which requires deep
soil to produce large crop. The blowing
should therefore be deep and well done.
have generally found two yoke of oxen to
make the best team; for two years | have
used two yoke of oxen to heavy pillow for
turning the first furrow and one yoke to a
light subsoil plow to follow them, without
throwing the soil out of the furrow, but
simply to loosen it mp.
Do not be afraid of turning up "that
yaller stuff, but if the subsoil is cold and
clayey, it is better to not bring too much
of it to the surface: in this case the depth
must be increased by degrees.
If the soil is stiff, let the field be first
narrowed around and around the way the
pillow went. diagenally in both directions,
and lastly backward and forward, parallel
to the longest side.
If the corn is to be put in with hoes,
mark ont with Il pillow across the face Of the
hill, if the ground is rolling; then select a
good, stiff pole twelve feet long, four feet
from each end attach two chains, which
should have one end draggin on the ground.
Let a man and boy OF two boys take each
an end of the pole, and pass up the fence,
at right angles to the marking out of the
pillow, take care to keep the chain next the
fence parallel to the same, and about four
feet distant. In coming back, the end of
the pole should be kept over the last chain
mark. A common ox-chain, say ten feet
long, will make plain mark if the ground
is i'll proper order.
Cover the corn carefully, and never more
than from to inches deep. If planted
deeper than this it will he longer coming
UP, and after it comes up it Will grow very
we'll until it is three or four inches high,
when it will remain stationary for ten days
or two weeks. BY examining we will find
that the first joint is below the surface of
the soil, also that the roots are decaying.
willie new enes are being thrown out from
the joint: these new roots require some ten
or fifteen days for their complete formation,
and during this time the plant remains sta
tionary rs far as growth is concerned. AS
soon as the new roots are fully formed the
old ones will entirely disappear, and the
growth will proceed as usual.
From actual experiments with grains
taken from tie same ear and tie Sdn,e part
Of tie ear, l have arrived at the following
result: Corn planted inch deep came mp
in eight days; that planted | ! inches deep
required nine and a half days; that inches
deep, ten days: % inches deep eleven and
quarter days; incncs deep twelve days:
81 inches deep, thirteen days: 4inches deep,
fourteen and half days: y inches deep,
eighteen days: 6 inches deep, twenty-one
days. The last lot came up and grew until
about three inches high, when it renal, cd
stationary for a long time and finally died.
AS soon as the rows arc visible, the hoe
harrow should be passed twice in the mid
die Of the row. but should not 90 too near
the corn until it is three OF four inches high.
When the corn is about six inches high.
remove the right-hand back-tooth of the
hee-harrow, and substitute for it a piece of
boiler plate shaped like the mould-board of
a pillow. This will hill the corn but not 50
high as if done with plew.
Do not work the corn when the ground
is too wet, for nothing is gained by it
Work it often and well, for it will be Il
good investment. As soon as the corn is
large enough to bo broken by the swinSle-
tree, the latter should be shortened to
one foot or eighteen inches.-GEoRGE p.
ROGERS, in Germantown Telegraph.