Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25
Corn Culture.

1t is manure, warm and shOwery
weather, that grows corn; and then, if
well tended there will be no failure. A
good manure is sod. If heavy, that is
sufficient for good crop-from soto 20
bushels shelled corn per acre-and we
known over so to be grown; but the
season was very favorable. But more
can be raised as well as not Corn is
that kind of plant that will bear it. If
the sod is very heavy and improved by
manure supplied either in the fall or
winter or early in the spring, spread
evenly, and close to the ground, and af-
ter the sod is turned manure applied in
the hill-hog manure is excellent if,
further the season is favorable there
will he a crop of nearer hundred bush
els of shelled corn per acre than fifty.
Even if the season is not very good
there will be a good profitable crop. The
land of course should be either dry or
drained.
This we know, by IA long experience,
will make the corn crop "a safe one and
a profitable one. There will be the corn
stalks which, if cut when they should
be when the corn is well glazed, and put
up in stocks, will afford fodder equally
AS good rs hay. Corn stalks when thus
matured, have the substance in them
and they can be cured with favorable
weather, so as to be put in bulk. 1t the
weather is not favorable air needs to be
admitted when stored away. But the
corn stalks thus treated are a great bene-
fit; when cut green, this is not the case,
there is not near the substance there is
In clover.
A corn crop thus taken will impOver-
81, hut a rit
Corn Is rank feeder under favorable
circumstances, and it gets most of it's nu-
triment from the atmosphere. It's roots
afford considerable fertility.
1t is always best to pillow Immediately
before planting, as then the weeds will
be backward in appearing, and if ma
ure is applied in the hills it will give a
start, vigorous one, which is wanted
and especially in soil brought up raw.
So far as our practice and observation
have extended, four feet apart, both hills
and rows, and four stalks in the hill is
the best mode of planting, gives larger
ears and ripens the corn better. 1t is
not good to 90 too close with corn, as
the air and sun are important This
will rive ears and mature well, often
two ears to a stalk. Rather have three
stalks in the hill than five, as i'll the lat
ter case there cannot be expected to be
more than five ears, and not of great
size at that, with backwardness in ma
turing. Where but three stalks are
grown there IS q chance for five or six
ears, and Of good sila and ally maturi-
ty. Our hest success has been, in the
main. with four stalks. -
But never haul ground up to the
stalks, rs used to be the practice, and is
yet to a great extent. 1t keeps the corn
green longer, from ten to fourteen days,
and this in some years is of the utmost
importance. Cultivate thoroughly. |!
cannot be done TOO much, that is, from
the start lil the cGu j. TOO large to
work in. The hoc will be- needed To 90
through once or twice, to clear the hill
of grass it viii pay for the labor. But
the cultivator is The most to be relied on.
We do not like the plow in the corntield.
Tested carefully for several variable
seasons, it will be found that the cult
vator is the thing 1t stirs more surface
and requires less hooing. We have new
or tested corn in drills. - Gtica Herald.