Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-31
Farm. Garden and Household.
Long Island Corn.

Long Island Corn.
1 live on the south side of Long
Island, at the head waters OF the great
Seuth Bay our soil generally is a
sandy loan, although of great variety
yetit is favorablefor the growtho of Indian
corn, and in ordinary fruitful years we
have good crops of this staple, as well
of wheat, rye, oats, etc. Some 40 or 80
years ago we planted the large cared
10, u, IA, and even 18-rowed variety,
with stalks to correspond but our &C.
casional severe drouths Zone of which
we had last summer) were too severe to
support stalks and ears both, and of
course the ears had to succumb, as the
stalks grew first and absorbed all the
moisture and most of the manure. We
then changed to small eight-rowed-
ear variety, both white and yellow, al
though the yellow was a smaller variety
than the white, but did well on our
light, sandy soils, but for heavier ones
the white (being larger ears and stalks
was considered more profitable. But
as we improved our farms by manuring
and cultivation, the stalks of our white
corn became, like the old variety, too
large for the ear, which we could regu-
late by the seed. 1 at length found a
similar variety of the same color and
number of rows, but with a much
smaller stalk, small cob, and larger
ear and kernel than the former variety.
1t is this latter which I will endeavor
to describe. The past season has not
been favorable for the corn crop, on &C
count of the drouth continuing so long
as to deprive the ear as we'll as the stalk
of sufficient moisture, although 1 have
saved for seed, while husking, some
ten or more bushels of ears, which are
filed out, or capped, as farmers call it,
over the small end. Last season 1
saved some Is or 20 bushels, mary of
which ears grew two on stalk, and
when shelled two bushels of them, as
we usually measure ears, 1 had seven
quarts over one bushel of shelled corn,
and presume struck bushel of which
would have weighed 60 pounds, as a
bushel of any other or common corn
weighed SO pounds, and the stalks are
smaller than the common size beside.
As it respects saving of fodder in husk-
ing, after suitable time for curing |
cart my corn on the stalks into my barns
as I wish it to husk this saves all the
loose hushs and litter for the stock /;
the smaller stalks separate for my
horses, which they eat clean without
cutting, and which, with our meadow
hay and little grain, keeps them in
apple-ple order, prevents heaves, and
enables us to sell our English hay and
thus proftably "kill two birds with
one stone.-John s. JesSup, Suffolk
Co., N. Y.
The Model sheep Man.
The best sheep man we ever heard of
was soldier, who saw somewhere how
valuable sheep are for renovating worn
out land, and after the cruel war was
over, he went home to his poor farm,
and bought thirteen ewes, all that, for
tunately, he was able to buy. He put
them in small field of briars and
weeds, which they soon destroyed, then
he fed them on bran and meal. In the
winter he sheltered them well, feeding
oats and swamp hay, and in the spring
he had thirteen fine lambs. Saving
the manure, he planted the old briar
patch with corn, and harvested a fine
crop. All his spare time was devoted
to caring for the sheep. The next
spring he had more lambs; he was
able to plant more corn then came
more lambs, when he sowed clover and
grew turnips; and now, to-day. as the
result of such small beginnings, he has
several hundred fine young sheep, free
from disease, bringing him $4,000 a
year, while his farm has become ex-
tremely fertile, and he is rich man.
We know that thousands and thousands
of poor young men have free course
open to them to become wealthy by
beginning in the same way. But the
trouble is, the way is too humble and
slow they want to get along faster ;
they have no patience, no faith. no
pluck. Truly, it does seem small bust
ness to watch dozen sheep, as if it
were beneath the attention of bright
American youth but if said youth will
look the subject all over he will see il
worthy of all his powers. A young
man can we'll afford to sit down with q
dozen sheep on the plains, live in dug
out, and feed on antelope meat, rather
than undertake to become Independent
in city on a clerkship of 81 900 year