Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-15

/ VS. " DoAASSA rA446 maize lOT BDOcE
feeding during winter and spring in
covered trenches.
Corn grows 50 easily and magnificent.
ly IN Tennessee, Alabama and the
South generally, that our readers will
Rpleased TO learn facts calculated to
increase the value of this agricultural
staple. The able commission above re.
ferred TO reports the growth of sixty
five thousand pounds of corn per acre
in 1874 on NJ. Cohorts farm. He
plants a large South American variety.
which grows twelve feet high and very
thick on the ground. It is cut as for
feeding before it goes into the trenches,
and placed in Layers Of dry straw and
chat; putting a layer of stra at the
bottom and one at the top Of the cut
corn. The heap is then covered few
inches with earth packed and sheltered
from rain. The mass ferments and
sours, but cattle at it greedily. Whit
sour krOut is to green, fresh cabbage,
this picked maize is to green corn used
wholly for forage. Cows eating this
food consume each an average of sixty
pounds a day, and yield as the desired
product, from twenty-five to thirty
quarts Of milk in q hours.
Our climate is as much better than
that of Central France for raising
corn for grass or hay, as it is for
raising cotton; because we can grow
two crops of such forage in six or
seven consecutive months, and raise a
fair crop Of rye or wheat for grazing
in the balance Of the year. The simple
fact is that, in the intensive system Of
farming, dairy-husbandry, stock raising
and sheep husbandry, the sunshine,
solar heat and rainwater Of 365 days in
a year are fully utilized degree Of
economy and industry that we have yet
to study and practice in the South. We
can only learn the value Of our climate
and farms through this channel Sir
Isaac Newton established his immortal
principle or principles Of astrono-
my" by the careful study of facts
called phenomena" A man who is
either unable or unwilling to consider
facts should follow some lower calling
than that of agriculture. A COW con-
Stunning 90 pounds Of green corn a day,
and having s., 900 pounds in a trench
taken from one acre to 60 or, would
demonstrate the instructive lesson that
one crop Of corn grown on one acre, will
keep a COW l,OS3 days, lacking bat y
of being three years.
There lie before Us returns showing
tae yield OF butter per COW IN some
hundreds Of factories from Maine to the
farther side Of the West. The best re-
ports make the yield an average Of
over 100 pounds for the year 1874.
This fact, connected with others
named, shows that an acre Of corn,
raised and used for COW feed, may give
the farmer of nice fresh dairy butter.
1 200 pounds, if fed to three frst-eIass
cows. The best diaries in the United
States have COWS come into new milk
in the fall, so as TO be fresh In the win
ter season, when fine favored butter
sells highest in all cities in America
and in Europe. In this way there are
factories which realize an average of
forty-five cents a pound for all the but
ter they make. Twelve hundred
pounds Of butter, worth forty-fve
cents a pound, brings into the farmers
pocket $40, extracted by three
take SIX, if you viii, COWS from one
acre Of corn.
But the calves, the buttermilk, the
fertilizers from the cows and corn are
also valuable. These come to the far
meT in addition to all the butter sold.
and In point of fact, ifproperlyutilized,
will more than keep up the number Of
cows IN the dairy, steers for working,
oxen for beef, with the yearly supply
Of manure to deepen and fatten the
soil, enlarge ones ever growing corn
field to support an ever-multiplying
herd Of breeding cattle.
The beauty, science and philosophy
Of this system Of united tillagc and
husbandry lie in the fact that fertility
can be made TO grow faster than corn,
while corn grows faster than calves,
and calves faster than children. The
system is a matter Of chemical and vital
force. Burn q pound Of pure butter IN
a clean iron vessel, and not particle
Of ash or earthly matter remains. TIE
butter goes back into vapor and gas,
Just as growing corn and other plants
find them. In selling butter, hogs
lard and tallow, the farmer sells air and
water-notbing more. The loss Of
these never impOverishcs the land, yet
the daily droppings of the animals that
produce butter, lard and tallow, curious
fatten the soil while forming
fat for expectation.
Nh. Lewis Bailey bought some three
acres of old fields in Fairfax
county, seven miles from Washington
city, and by selling cream at a dollar
gallon to Wizards Hotel and others,
manuring the land from the droppings
Of cows, pigs and other stock. he raised
more tors Of corn per acre, to feed his
COWS, than the writer ever saw grow out
Of the ground North, South or West.
The land gained ten fold in value be-
cause the cream sold came from the air