206 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

 Alabama Wheat — Early Corn, etc. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:183; June, 1849] 



[March 27, 1849] 



Will your northern readers believe me, when I tell 

 them, as I now do, that I saw to-day, March 27th, a 

 field of wheat all fully headed out and in bloom? To 

 all appearances now, it will be ripe enough to cut in three 

 weeks, if the weather is warm. This early maturity will 

 insure it against all danger from rust, and that is about 

 the only danger of failing in a crop in this part of the 

 country. This piece contains three acres, and is upon the 

 farm of Dr. N. B. Cloud, whose name is familiar to many 

 of your readers, as the man who actually makes manure 

 in the south, and uses it, too, and by which he has raised 

 the most cotton to the acre that ever was grown.^ 



As soon as this wheat is harvested. Dr. Cloud will fur- 

 nish an account of it, and how he started with 300 grains 

 of seed, sent him in a letter. It bids fair now to make 40 

 bushels to the acre. Dr. C.'s post-office address is, Lock- 

 land, Macon Co., Ala. I advise my southern friends to 

 procure seed of him. To any subscriber of an agricul- 

 tural paper, I will engage that he will most cheerfully 

 send a little in a letter by mail, if they will write to him, 

 and not forget to pay the postage. 



For several days past, I have seen many plows at work 

 among corn, which was up so as to show the rows half a 



'Noah Bartlett Cloud, son of Noah and Margaret (Sweringen) 

 Cloud, born at Edgefield, South Carolina, January 26, 1808; died 

 at Montgomery, Alabama, November 5, 1875. Studied medicine 

 in Philadelphia. At age of twenty-six married Mary M. Barton. 

 Went to Alabama in 1846, and settled at La Place, Macon County, 

 becoming a cotton planter. One of the founders (1853), and editor 

 of the Americaii Cotton Planter, carrying on a work of primary 

 importance to the agricultural history of Alabama. Opposed seces- 

 sion, but served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. See sketch 

 in Dictionary of American Biography, 4:232. His views on meth- 

 ods of cotton raising and his difference of opinion with Dr. M. W. 

 Philips on the subject are discussed in Gray, History of Agricul- 

 ture in the Southern United States, 2:706-7. 



