The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-28

"s;x Ton. NJ Nutr,,ion. Food
Prodnced Per acre.
tn tss Edl,or Of ,hO cbIe,rO Tribune.
W,.or,oy s,.,L r. n Me- =
o!aAsa ~" r.. ~ ~.
Cotton u NOT Aing. Accosuing 10 Tue
returns oil Inc department oil Agricul.
ture, the money value oil the cotton crop
OF 1875 was $272,000,000, while the value
OF the corn Gro was returned At S555, AGO.
900 Corn h therefore The great leading
Im..;osn ..on Ns,, 70 ~ i, v,Irs'
etoP' M oeo'H ~
IL inc nay crop. In tne same year a,'
was estimated 81 SS4z,VVo,VVo. II Is
plain, therefore that whatever will a
crease the quantity Of this greet leading
staple, or answer a. n substitute by way
~ q t,rage c,op. canrot fail To be Of great
- .L;.L a., .nb.,;,r,.
Puoite ,aiue.
can be best iound IN that cniei Oh Amer.
can plants, corn, when sowed and reaped
for forage. II would be OF especial value
In the South, where hay does not succeed
a, . cron, To show that thi, Ia not mere
49,. viii m,ts /. b,ief s,.tsment n
uooi!, III ...aJ 80
mye1peiienee WIN o"eu e'fH A0o
what extended scale.
For the last three or iour years l have
wintered, on an average, 2,Ooo aheep, 6O
bead Of cattle, and 20 head oil horses with
no hay. and upon no other to.age than
sowed fodder corn and grain.
Roughly estimating the sheep to weigh
100 pounds each and the horses and cat
tie at 1000 pounds each. we would have q
total gross weight OF 10000 pounds OF
live stock. As the Roth harvester Z
periments OF Lawes q Gilbert have de-
monstrated that 1t requires about 3 per
cent Of the live weight oil one Of these ami
mails in good timothy hay. daily to sup
port it in good condition, 1t will be seen
that the livestock above metioned would
require about.three'and.a'haii tons Inlay
dsiay lor n Sp .na Anvil 4So ,ons
RI, a. ons.fon1tb or more Of their support
"a. snnnl;ed by grain. thew really con-
snmed bnt about $50 tons o foddef. The
hooks est;mate a tom Of the fodder corn
seown md cnred in n manner I shall de-
scr;be "a fuily eoual in value 10 q ton Of
the best timothy hay, and al worth two or
three Of fodder that has grown a crop
AZ grain. This estimate Is Substantially
inus;ssd In practice. Now. AZ The Weld Of
;b,onsIy dried bay will not exceed one
and a half tons TO The acre on an average,
h /. Main tbat TO have produced The
%onsrtity o. bay REQUIRED I would have
I'D n cnt 2l6 acres OF erass. II Ia an
nneommonly good crop that Yields two
tonS per acre. Al that rate il would have
reouired about 100 acres Of grass. The
iodder corn was The product OF sixty
.crss and the Weld was more then Eve
IONS Of dried fodder per acre, and that in
a dry season. Think It safe 10 reckon
hat one scre Of fodder corn will produce
"A much and "a good cattle food a. three
10 iour acres OF hay.
HOW TO sAo" II.
The ground should be put into good
filth BY plowing and narrowing, and the
seed BoWed during the first week In jane.
I have never sowed sweet corn, but al
ways the common corn oil the country.
Repeated experiments have proved Two
bushels o tshelled corn to the acre 70 De
ne proper amOIa. o. sufa r.;r 80. u, ,bs
'nor,. Ate, soVinS. nothing more al
II done for he crop lii the time OF cut.
,;rs Ths vrovtb will OF ourse vary
III ,he fsrtiiity az The soil and with the
'..aon TIE oronnd sbonld not be loo
la ~ The Growth will be too coarse
I'd AM land Of medium fertility pro-
dnc.. ,be briobte.t and sweetest fodder.
Ssvs rs;ssd tails twelve feet in height.
The vroWtb al 1875 averaged about nine
feet. that Of 1877, which in this part OF
nS;o ne. v.,v NV ssason, about Seyen
-,
7, v;II bs .asn that the growing of the
c,on /. a verysimpIe matter. What bother.
" " mo., ~ Learn and what wa, come at
vi. .f,er MANI nal and rsneatsd fail.
U.., 49, Tho n,oner time and beat WV
~ bsrv.stin9 nd curipr The crop.
II IN. To- s.qIv n will SURELY mold: n
Ia, TO- I.,e Il become. hard and woody,
VI ;"onrs,Ls la of irost II sbouid
s,.rd Mi The iovsr ioint turns TO q
S,iSb, yellow color. This With US il
Ssnsrs,iy abou. SAINT l.
How TO HARVEsI II.
The most formidable task at first was
the cutting. Corn-kniyes, scythss, era;
dies, and great variety Of mowers and
reaping machines were tried successfully
only TO fail or TO be too slow. The Cham
pion self-rake reaping.machine, made BY
Whitley, FaSsler and Kelly, Springfield
o, Is the only implement l haye found
that will do the work satisfactorily, how
ever lodged and tangled the fodder may
be.
The reaper is driven around the field
as In reaping wheat Eight men can cas-
lily follow the machine. They are diyi-
ded into four couples, and, Of course, the
field into four stations" Each couple
IL provided with 4 horse" or as Il i
sometimes called q "grasshopper," which
Il simply alight rail with two legs near
one end, and a hole near the middle, into