Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-14
CORN AND FODDER.
Early Forward Forage for the South
Atlantic and Gulf States.

JEFFERSON COUNTY. FLA, February 1O.-Edttor
Morning Nelcs: The able editor of the South
err Farmers Monthly. in his "Work for the
Month" february, devotes considerable space
and most properly and deservedly Soto the
planting Of corn. Having had some experience
with several varieties, 1 send the result for
what it may be worth
THE GOLDEN DENr''
l have planted more or less fer the past five
or six years, and have sent hard corn to mill
as early as the Sd day of July, but the ground
must be rich and the cultivation rapid in order
to make good crop. and even then the ears
are not all well filed out. nor are they uniform
in size A few quarts, well manured, will give
early millings should corn be scarce.
MARYLAND WHITE"
By accident l found that any Northern corn
planted here would come early. Year before
last sent TO Savannah for two-bushe sack,
which cost me eighty cents per bushel. After
culling it over and casting aside the grains
broken by the cOrn-sheler, planted as a field
crop. and the sama reached maturity only a
week or ten days later than the Golden Dent,
ofwhich also had small patch. The corn
was uniform in size-cob much smaller than
the Golden Dent-ears large and well filled
ont, and made beautifully white and well fla
vored bread.
A sack of this corn can be bought In Savan-
nah for what few quarts of the fancy earlies
will cost at the Seedmen's With average land
and cultivation, il will give much greater satis-
faction, and will respoud as literally to good
preparation, high fertilization and thorough
cultivation as any.
KEEPING QUALITIES.
It is a singular fact that none of the corn
grown from Northern seed keeps well here.
have known the hardest Kentucky flint to be
so perforated with weevil by planting time
that we had much difficulty in getting o few
ears of seed corn out # several bushels saved
for that purpose, and that too when our corn,
grown from the native seed, was comparatively
unscathed l would, therefore. warn your
readers against planting more than they can
consume during the fall and winter AS a
stand by" for spring and summer a good
native variety is best
Ihave no doubt but that any of the Northern
varieties may be acclimated, but in the process
they would certainly lose the advantage Of
being earlier than the native.
FORAGE.
Those who are short of feed for stock can
not do better than plant for corn fodder-tWo
to three bush Is to the acre.
have realized from one acre planted in this
way, manured with green cotton seed, suffi-
cient forage for twelve mules; given in the
green state and enough cured to do the same
number from six weeks to two months longer
and by thinning out in time got a pretty fair
crop Of corn besides.
'CAT-TAIL MILLET'
have found by all odds superior to the Ger
man millet, or any other green forage, and
have never known it to wash or scour stock
even when hard at work
1t may be cured as corn fodder is and stored
for future use. Two years ago planted rich
cow pen in this millet and got six cuttings. 1t
will not do to plant it as early as corn it being
more sensitive to cold
Corn fodder and milet, when fed green, are
both sweeter and more wholesome from bav-
ing an hour or two's sun after being cut,
though have never had millet to hurt mule
even when cut in the rain and fed wet.
Maryland white is so called from the State
where it is grown and its pure white unmixed
color.
Almost any variety of sound corn from
more northern latitude will give satisfactory
results both as to quantity and earliness.
Pardon me for having written longer than
intended. but my purpose has been to assist
some brother planter to tide over some of the
slight places incident to a farmers Iife-to
which have not been altogether a stranger
myself, for misfortunes are common to all
and, as Confucius. the great Chinese philoso-
pher, says, 1.-The best cultivated earth frus-
trates the hope of the laborer when the sea-
sons are irregular. ]. It.