The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1881-06-04
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f%eluffahdg conclude lai COIN
planting ~ ue liver must h .i
Ell amohR dt loti afli.
We think dai iho corn rrln.l't
gathered alahR lhe dtr WiD Wtf
age nearer IA hnban fthH H iu.f
" bushels pef atte Tho ,Iust
u thia poof crop y hUi df poor
land, bot 10 poor preparation, poor
cultivation and poof management
The cotton planter before plant
Ing HE crop, puts asido M amount
~ land sufficient 10 make Com
enough 10 do him. calculated nfI
uhc rate of fony bushels 10 lhe
acre The cotton of corn aall
and trash are piled md burned
and nle blowing commence. ui
In March The season u ownhnp
on, and the negro ploemsn IT.
save time, will clap his nnowa
IN other words, viii cover up, IN.
der The ridge be throws ~, b strip
Of hard unbrokcn land twclye
inohea wide. The strip Is dircctl,
under the centre Of the "bcd" on
which the corn must grow.
In the rush the planter has ncp
lectcd to secure good seed corn,
and rather lhan wait, plants from
a sack Of 'boat corn" which has
probably been heated. A bad
"siand' is the consequence, but
the cotton land is only half pre-
pared, and time is pressing. A
part OF the cotton crop is planted.
and the first planting needs scra-
ping, and before this IS through.
the planter, who has had no time
to look after his corn, finds that il,
is up, needs thinning and il foul
with grass and cockleburs. When
It can wait no longer, he orun,
around it, barring it or" with
one inrrow, and goes back TO his
cotton. The corn is LEFT standing +,
on a narrow slice OF land, with the .
roots exposed, and if a hard rain ,
comes much of il is washed down.
When the corn is near knee.hiph.
and the weeds in the "'middIe .
still higher, ii is chopped out and
TWO burrows thrown to it with the ]
turning-plow, and the "middlcs"
covered up with two more. 81
It is then left standing in this
condition until il ''bunches for ,as.
sci, when il is plowcd out in three NJ
of iOur burrows and laid by. 1.-THE II
weather is dry, the blades shriyel +,
and the corn will hardly be worth
gathering; il a good rain follows. =.
the corn will recover from the =
clumsy bntchering and make from
ten to twenty bushels per acre.
] The sugar planter does not pre-. II
tend to be Il corr planter. When ne
a 'cui' is exhausted, he plows I'm
inc s'ubblc and plants in corn, and
when the Germ is laid by he sows
7 down thiekly in peas. The So
ground is plowed deep and well.
put II Is rough. The probability
that the corn will be poor and !
ornc down to the ground with /
fa vines, which will oyenun Il y
wet fall will rot il badly, and HI !.
proves not worth gathering. H, y
iii be turned under with the pea !
pes. The next year the ground. I
icing enriched with the pea vines. 4
vii probably yield, with the ordi- !,
'ary cultivation, twenty barrels &
II corn. or q,
ms IS a picture hard to realize. !"
true OF many planters in the :
uvial lands. The corn repiop -
Pper Of the United States plant !
land worked after the Louisiana =,
mon would not make the seed ..
Anted. OF course there are hon. h,
able exceptions among our val 9.
" planters. who make twcnty-6vc y
nd thirty bushels Of corn. but nj 4,
'ere are any Of the old stock still A.
'maining, We would BE- glad 10 e.
ear IRON them how they made <.
iorty or fifty bushels of corn IA 4.