The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-03-29
Milledgeville Union ant Recorder]
DEFICIENCY IN CORN AND Fob
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If lacking means to purchase corn and
other necessary food for working stock, OBJ
viously, the first step to be taken is to feed
economically what is on hand, not by
stinting the stock, but by grinding the
grain or soaking it so as to make it go
further than when used in the ordinary
way. If the corn on hand is in the shuck,
put it, shuck and all, in barrel contain
ing sutficiency of weak brine to cover
it. DO this early in the morning for
night feed, and put in enough at night for
the next days feed. Shuch the corn and
put the wet shucks, corn and cobs in the
trough. Done in this way less quantity
(Which can be soon ascertained) will an
swer. Mules, and some horses will eat
the cobs as we'll as the corn and shucks.
If one has a corn and cob grinder let them
be ground together and place requisite
quantity in the weak brine, but shorter
time will answer Much may be saved
in this way. Let the fodder and hay be
cut and placed in boxes for the horses, if
the troughs are not large enough; this
will prevent waste.
In the next place plant early corn as
soon as the season will permit and force
it to the ripening process as fast as posi-
ble Set apart few acres for this and
repeat the plowings and hocings every 8
or 10 days for three times. Ripe corn,
by this process, may be obtained In eight
weeks. The first feeding, from this early
corn, may be safely made by boiling the
roasting ears In the meantime push on
a crop Of the earliest variety of field peas.
A patch may be sowed in most cases with
safety, by the 10th of April Sow another
patch in or 10 days, and still another
the first of May. To force them, SOW in
the drill and plow and hoe them. Peas,
if not fully ripe, may be boiled and fed
without danger to the animals. For
work horses peas are as nutritious as corn,
but the two may be advantageously
mixed. We know of no swifter way to
supplement their food than by these
methods. Food, in this way, can be OBJ
tanned for them two weeks earlier than
from early cut oats, and fully two months
before the ordinary corn can be obtained
from the fields.
For forage, sow rye at once, and cut
when in bloom, this is as good as fodder
A little of it may be mixed with their
other food before 1t blooms without evil
results
Lucerne and millet will also afford excel
lent early forage. Fodder corn will also
add early long food. Sow it at the rate
of two, or even three bushels per acre in
drills from two and half to feet apart.
Cover lightly with single furrow. Plow
it we'll when s or 8 inces high and once
in l2 or 15 days. Out when in bloom
with hoes, and shock after o'clock, COW
ering with sheath, latter tying around
the top) made of the stalks. Cut each
day no more than can be shocked. 1t
will dry in week sufficiently to be housed.
Fodder corn will never come to much un-
less the ground is rich or sufficiency of
good manure 10 put in the drills. ,
We observe, that the land for all crops
to be forced, must be reasonably manured
and worked earlier than crops usually
are, and this in clines rs to remind our
readers of what we have several times
said before that nothing is more disastrous
10 farming operations than to work corn
and cotton, too late, especially the 6rst
time. How can it get this early working