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Long's son, tinder fourteen years of age, raised ninety- 

 four bushels on half an acre. 



A larger acreable product, however, than any of 

 these, and probably the largest ever reached, was that 

 of Dr. J. W. Parker, of Columbia, S. C. It is stated 

 in the Weekly Tribune that the corn planted by 

 him was the Bale Mountain, a variety obtained from 

 North Carolina; that the land was under -drained, 

 highly manured, highly cultivated, and closely planted, 

 and that the yield was two hundred bushels and 

 twelve quarts of shelled corn per acre. 



But the prolific vigor of Indian corn is not limited 

 to its yield of grain. The stalk crop is no less re- 

 markable for its luxuriant growth and surprising 

 product. 



While the hay crop seldom exceeds two and a half 

 tons per acre, averaging over the country probably 

 not more than one and a half tons, the amount of 

 stover accompanying the maize crop, forming a part 

 of its product, and considered by many farmers quite 

 equal in value to hay, generally ranges from two to 

 three tons per acre, occasionally reaching four or five 

 tons. 



When the stalk crop is raised for the purpose of 

 fodder exclusively, the yield is higher still. Nine tons 

 of this fodder per acre, weighed after curing, are re- 

 ported in the Working Farmer and stated to be 

 sufficient in quantity for keeping ten cows seventy or 

 more days. This amount has not unfrequently been 

 equalled, and occasionally surpassed. In a report to 

 an agricultural society of South Carolina, more than 



