Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-27

paddock p o., SUwANNEE COUNTY. FLA,
July 90 Editor Morning NeI0s: people
who like ourselves in Florida and the border
counties Of Georgia, can raise so great a va
riety of field and garden crops. and fruits and
vegetables, who may sit under their Rn vines
and fig trees and sereneIy contemplate their
pineapples oranges, lemons, scuppernongs,
bananas, peaches, Strawberries, pomegranates,
ETC., can afford to confess some difficulties, and
one is, that much of our corn does not keep
well until the new crop comes in. This is espe-
cially applicable to that exposed to wet au
tumns, as this threatens to be, for in portions
of the region referred to the rains for over two
months have been excessive, and are becoming
more frequent AMI heavier.
Z vastly rich bondholder from Michigan was
looking round very carefully in the semi tropi-
cal regions, with the view to making invest
ments be was going among the "by-ways"
as ell as towns, so that he lodged at all sorts
of places. and he relates that he was some
times disgusted at the odor Of the corn bread
Now, it happened that he was one Of those
rare persons who like corn bread better than
wheaton loaves, and having heard that corn
meal is used more in the Sonth than in his sec
tion, he came anticipating toothsome treat
in the corn meal delcacies-the "St. Charles
indian bread the mullins, the corn cakes,
hominy, Indian pudding, etc.
Mrs Grundy (who goes everyWhere) was
deeply shocked at the i'll flavor Of the corn
mullins where she breakfasted at friend g
house ia a Florida city (Which shall be name
less). by the way, would it not be well, in our
semi-tropical region, to adopt this custom of
the English literary circles, Of having friends
to breakfast, instead of dinner, during the hot
test month OF the summer?l This fashionable
lady, being a great tattler as we'll as traveller,
will repeat this mishap, to our scandal.
But there isA much more potent reaeon for
trying to secure perfectly sound corn for meal
For some one has written that as this grain
passes out of the sound stage strpchnine is de-
veloped-not enough to destroy life in a short
time, like the deadly drug itself, but traces
of it. No one can relish the idea of eating food
with even traces of poison in it,
The suggestion is-not to pull fodder, and
then after the lapse OF months, to gather the
corn the last having taken the rains dews
wind aud sunshine; but to save fodder corn
and stalks at once, by cutting the stalks at the
ground. This may be done with cane knives
or sharp wedding hoes. The time should be
when the grains are glazed or the ears are
about half cured The bot tom fodder will have
dried. but there will Re the gain Of the stalks
saved; and corn stalk forage has host of ad.
vocates the eminently practical Senaror JOS
K Brown being one. At one STAGE corn stalks
contain abundant juice out of which syrap and
sugar may be made; some OF this will be saved
In forage cut as en1oined but all is a loss when
the stalks are left exposed to the weather as
usual in the cotton belt.
Kentuckians and others in the grain belt
SOW immense quantities of their vast corn crop
in this way. At proper intervals punches of
stalks are left uncut to make props to form
the shocks around. When the planting is in
shocks the stalks of four hills are brought to-
gether and bound with the blades at the top
and make good supports After curin which
takes only few weeks the corn is all hauled
in. and this mode affords cheaper and more
abundant forage than any other, and it is
saving what would be otherwise almost total
loss. Those portions of the stalks that are too
hard to be eaten make an excellent fertilizer
after being tramped by the stock. General
corn stalks.
There is a precedent for harvesting the corn
under-ripe, in British husbandry, where the
wheat that is not intended for seed is generally
cut before fully ripe, many Of those farmers
believing that it makes the largest yield and
the best -four.
There is flood Of news as to the abundance
of the corn crop, so there IL ample for the
farmers to make the experiment with a few
bushels a any rate. G.C.P.