The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-12-22
oil should be thrown up to it and the corn

soil should be thrown up to it and the corn
laid by.
As soon as the corn is large enough and
the seed has formed, and the brush is Of q
silver greenish tipge, it is time to cut. The
operation is performed by going through two
rows and tabling them first, which is done by
breaking the stock Of two rows over each
other. This has tendency to drain off any
dew. After certain space has been tabled,
no more than can be cut and taken care OF
that day, cutting can commence, for which
use an ordinary short shoemaker knife, cut
ting the brush With about six inches to eight
inches of stalk-the small, short brush with
the longest stalk, and the large, long bruah
with the shortest stalk. Too much stalk re
duces the price of the brush, and too little
makes it worthless. In cutting it, the brush
can be thrown on the tabled stalks, which
will be found strong enough to hold it. The
brush can be allowed to stay from thirty
minutes to one hour in the sun, when it
should be taken under shed, where neither
rain nor sun can touch it, and there fully
cured. Sun cured corn does not weigh as
heavy as that which is dried in shed, nor
is it worth IS much. In curing under shed,
any arrangement that will expose the corn
freely to the air will answer for the purpose
of curing it,
While the brush is curing, and it is desira
BILE to raise another crop that season, it can
be done by cutting the stalks off close to the
ground, which is good food for stock, as good
as hay. The roots will start up fresh
stalk, which will be equal to the fret, pro
vided the ground is well cultivated as in the
frst planting. I<Akes about ninety days
from the time the seed is planted until the
corn is fit to cut, provided the weather is
favorable, and there is nothing about it that
need be wasted.
The brush will bring from $50 to 500
per ton. The stalk can be fed to stock, and
the seed is the best kind of grain for work
stock or chickens, and from six hundred to
eight hundred pounds of merchantabe broom
corn can be raised to an acre at each growing
1t takes from three to four quarts of good
sound seed to plant an acre of good rich
land.
After the corn is cured it should be strip
ped of the seed, for which any continuance
can be fixed that will do it the quickest and
the best, although there are some cheap ma
chimes at from $50 to $50 made for the pur-
pose, but we DO not know by whom.
Seed for planting is secured by letting the
corn get fully ripe, which depreciates the
corn. The seed stripped from good mer'
charitable broom corn is not FL to plant, hence
if seed is the object, the corn is sacrificed,
and if corn is wanted, the seed ia only good
for stock.
After the corn is well cured and stripped
of seed it is ready to bale. Bale it about
the same as cotton or hsy-laying your corn
perfectly straight lengthwise with the bale,
and pack it 80 that the stalk comes to the
ends of the bale. It must, however, not al
all be laid one way-it can be laid so that
the straw turns towards the end of the bale.
but it should not be allowed to project be.
yond it. The straw should be laid 80 that
when bound, it will hold together. The
Philip wire tie is the lightest and strongest
as we'll as the cheapest, for such bales, being
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