The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-31

sons why horse will not eat as much
of it. I made the experiment once, III
this way. on q horse that was in the hab-
1t OF having ten ears of corn regularly.
put before him ten ears of white corn
and four ears of yellow corn; he ate up
the ten ears ofwhite corn, and left. the
| yellow corn. And you win eat white
bread every time, instead OF yellow corn
| bread; even a blind man can tell the
difference as well as you can. One year
I sent TO Wisconsin and got some OF
their corn. We had suffered here good
/ many years from drouth, and wanted
to anticipate the drouth, if possible. /
sent for some of this Wisconsin corn,
which matured in July, 1866 had two
motives: had just got home, and had
nothing to start with. From this Wis
consin corn we got roasting ears on the
4th of July. planted it about the 10th
OF March. That year we had only par
tial showers in August, and while my
other corn suffered IDLY for want Of
rain, this Northern corn was matured.
made eight barrels OF that corn from
the acre. 1 don't know how much of the
other corn made; it was not good year
for corn. i think the people in our
State would be benefited each year by
| importing a few barrels of that seed corn,
| SO that ifa drOuth should come that cuts
off the balance of the corn crop, there
would still be fair crop Of this early
| crop, and if you want to start boys, you
| can start them early upon that. This
| was the corn usually planted in Wilson's
! sin; it was white corn. Their seasons
| are about two months shorter than ours,
When the drouth came it did not hurt
! this Wisconsin corn a particle; it was
! small corn.
QUEsTION-Would that corn improve
| in size after it was planted year or two
! in this country?
Col. WADE-I think it would, because
| everything soon becomes acclimated. 1
| think the very latitude in which this
corn was raised, makes it the corn it is.
1t is the same way with cotton. You
| may go to the Gulf and get cotton seed
and bring it here, or take seed from here
and carry it to the Gulf, and it will ap-
| proximate to the cotton of each climate.
Therefore believe that, each year, a
man would do well to send North and
| get some of this seed; the cost of one or
two barrels wonld be very small item.
| QUEsTIoN-Do you save your fodder?
Col. WADE-I am glad you asked me
the question, because have thought of
it very frequently. l think that our
| grand-fathers put two stalks in hill in
order to save their fodder. But my opin-
ion is that every man that saves fodder
at all has injured his corn to the extent
of the value of his fodder. Get your
pabulum, your ioddder, from your
meadows, and let your corn land pro-
| duce the corn, the ear.
CAPTAIN BLACK plant my drills
about two and half feet apart,
and set my corn about as you would
sow cotton seed, and get fodder equal
to about two tons of timothy hay. l
think where we re-plant corn we loose
by taking the fodder off when it is too
young.
Col. WApE-I do not believe in re-
planting corn. / think you had almost
as well leave weed as to re-plant a
stalk of corn. Ifyou plant your corn at
the short distance | do, If one stalk is
missing you never feel it, and the
strength of the ground will 20 to the
other stalks adjacent to it, and you will
probably sustain no loss.
MIR. EsTES-If you break your land
deep in the water burrows your corn will
hardly ever wash. You speak about the
soil being thrown away from the root.
l throw the grass and all such trash
into the middle of the row. 1t rots, and
when pillow the corn the third time
1
| soil and the rotten grass goes to
the corn. think the white corn Is the
best.f
MIR. DEw-Will it do to cover corn
| with a rotating harrow?
| CAPTAIN BLACK-I have used NV iron
| double shovel, and / have never seen
anything yet that thought was equal
to the iron double shovel for corn, that
| is, where you have it in drills. 1t COW
ers about deep enough, and leaves the
| surface clean.
MIR. SCoTT-The main point is to loos-
en- up your ground, and let the tibreS
run everywhere.
Mr.. WILLIAMs-Tne lest crop Il corn
ever raised was planted on the top OF
the ground. The greatest objection is
that it is more likely to blow down.
| MIR. SCoTT-If was going to buy corn
l would rather have yellow corn than
white corn for my stock.
| CAPTAIN BLACK-In the North they
prefer yellow corn for feed. But here is
APPOINT l want information on. believe
in planting early and laying by early,
SO that can give my corn four plowings
| before 1t commences to taSsle. Another
advantage in lying by early is that
want to get tie benefit of this crab grass
that will grow; don't think that it in
jureS the corn at all, and the crab grass
makes good manure and helps to keep
up the land.
Col. WADE have seen more corn in
Jured by late plowirg than for the want
of blowing.
GAIT. BLACK-This crab grass is a
great advantaget to the icorn.
Col. WADE-I have no doubt your
litter is an advantage. 1fone of you will
make the experiment, j should like to
hear your report. / should like to have
Mr.. Estes put in a few acres and give it
four plowings, and then plant according
to your plan, and give us the result OF
the two crops twelve months hence. The
earlier you can plant your corn and get
it to stand, without running the risk OF
frost, the better, but Mr.. Estes corn in
all human probability will be bitten
down by frost; and while he was planting
corn this week, l was re-plowing. 1t is
usually safe to plant corn about The first
of April.
Mr.. WILLIAMS would like to have
the experience of some gentleman in re-
gard to subsoiling com.
MIR. ESTES tried it one year before
the war. L ran iurrow with turning
pillow, and followed il with deep bull
tongue, Ill every row. l laid by some
40 acres i'll that way, and think I made
at least two barrels more to the acre.
Col. WADE-I don't want single
root broken if can avoid it, when / lay
by my corn.
Mr.. EsTEs-I would do mine so if
had time.
Col. WADE-My experience is fixed
1t will not do to pillow deep when
you lay by your corn.
MIR. EsTEs-I tried it one time and il
proved successful.
Col. WADE-I have no doubt Mr.. Es-
tes has made more corn than have, and
i'll some points his experience staggers
me, because my experience has been
limited, but what little experience have
had makes me confident.
MIR. WILLIAMs-Is it best TO lay by the
corn upon level?
Col. WADE-1f You could have it level
it would be better; throw nearly all the
dirt back 10 it.
CAPT. BLACK believe in sub-soiling.
L have not been able TO sub-soil all nv
corn this year. VIII it pay to better to
sub-soil the drill, or had better lust run
it off and wait another year?
MIR. WIsENER-I would slIb-soil; l