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restored. Now, there h no concealing the fiict, 

 that much of the land in the /////sis impoverished, 

 nnd some entirely exhausted, ami ilial, unless 

 something is done to restore its productiveness, 

 it will liul to brinir good cotton before long, 

 and at last fail to bring ariy cotton at all. 



It was to remedy these evils, to wit : to prevent 

 the deL'eneraiion of the Mexican cotton, and to 

 nrrest the exhaustion of' the soil, that this attempt 

 to cross the cotton has been ma(le j and if iheex- 

 lierimentorihe Me^tico-Egypiian cotton succeeds, 

 we shall have the novel spectacle of worn out 

 lands, resting, andj at the same time, producing 

 finer cotton and larger crops than at present. 



I sat down, to notice simply the peculiarities of 

 this! mongrel cotton j but your inquiries have eli- 

 cited an extension of my remarks^ which proba- 

 bly should have been reserved till better warranted 

 by facts, or till my time should have given me 

 leisure to render this communication more satis- 

 factory. But as your curiosity is to blame for this 

 hasty account of an interesting operation of na- 

 ture, you must be sati.«fied with this statement till 

 the future has developed the result of these spe- 

 culations. Yours, respectfully, 



C> B. New. 



Laurel Hill, Sept. 5, 1838. 



SUPBRIOR PRdDUCT OF THE T-^VlN CORN. 



To tlie Editor of tlie Farmers Register. 



Old Point Comfort, Oct. 15, 1838. 



Any thing connected with the mooted question 

 of the prolific qualities of the Baden or twin corn, 

 must be interesting to your agricultural readers. 

 I will not undertake to settle the controversy ; eve- 

 ry one should be his own judge fiom his own ex- 

 perience ; but, unless something unexpected oc- 

 curs to change my opinion, I shall hereafter plant 

 the twin corn, to the exclusion of all other varie- 

 ties : this determination, is the result of a full and 

 eatisfaclory experiment. 



I planted, three years ago, a field of twin corn, 

 adjoining one of our ordinary large white kind. 

 The product, unfortunately, was not accurately de- 

 termined, but I was satisfied, that it was greater 

 than the latter. The overseer and negroes, how- 

 ever, condemned it, and I was compelled to relin- 

 quish its cultivation. I determined this year to 

 give it another and a fairer experiment, and plant- 

 ed with it a lot of three acres, that was last year 

 in our common corn, and yielded twenty-lour 

 barrels. The product this year was thirty-seven 

 barrels of twin corn, upwards of 50 per cent, more 

 than the yield of the previous year. The lot had 

 received no manure, and, as it is fair to presume 

 that it had lost a portion of its productive property 

 by the previous crop, the advantage of soil was 

 decidedly in favor of the first crop. The corn 

 was planted both years alike, in rows five feet 

 wide, and' about one and a half feet in the step, 

 and received, as nearly as could be, the same 

 amount of cultivation. As one valuable proper- 

 ty of the twin corn is to mature early, it suffered 

 very little from the drought. 



From the above facts, let every one draw his 

 own conclusion. JMine is, that on rich land, ihere 

 18 no variety, that we know of, as productive ay 

 the twin corn. 



Vol. VI.— 62 



Whilst I am writing, I will call your attention 

 to an important ty|iographicaI error in my (uim- 

 municalion of last nionlh. Instead of " set era/ 

 bushels,"'' read "set'c/i barrels.'''* 



R. Auc'HEn. 



THE VERY LATEST AORICU LT L'RA L HUMBUG, 

 A^^•OUNCI3D IN THE VERY BEST BtANNER. 



From ttie N. Y. Commerrial Adverti>rr. 



Important to Farmers. — I think, Messrs. Print- 

 ers, that we have had enough in all conscience of 

 puffing and blowing about family Ravels, Tree 

 play acloiR, men singers, and women singers, 

 Italian fiddlers, and rope dancers, live elephants 

 and monkeys. (By-the-by it is a very preva- 

 lent opinion at Cow Bay, Cow Neck, Oyster Bay 

 and Hallet's Cove, that if all those drones were 

 turned out to fell trees, grub up brush and hoe 

 corn, we would not need to import poas-meal and 

 rye-flour from Germany — things which feed the 

 sense of sight only.) Now we, some of your 

 clod-hopping subscribers, think ourselves entitled 

 to half a column of your paper to speak of things 

 which feed the taste, and give nourishment to the 

 body corporate. 



JNlr. Jefferson says the man who makes three 

 blades of grass grow where only one grew before, 

 is more the friend of man than he who conquers 

 kingdoms. I think if Mr. J. hail alwa3^s preach- 

 ed such sound doctrine, he would have been the 

 greatest philosopher of the age. Seeing, then, 

 that this proposition about the grass is self-evi- 

 dent fact, what think you should be done to ihe 

 man who makes three ears of corn grow where 

 only one grew before? inasmuch as grass feeds 

 the horse, and corn the man. But to come to the 

 point at once: 



Some three years ago a merchant in New York, 

 while emptying a box ol' lea, observed therein a 

 tew grains of corn. (Concluding that corn from 

 China must be something new under our sun, he 

 had them planted, so they grew and multiplied. 

 Last spring, I received fiom a worthy friend, a 

 portion of said corn — it's a new variety — so I 

 gave it the name of China's full prolific, or tree 

 corn ; as it strikes off in two, three, and frequently 

 lour branches, in ap|)eaiance like a small tree, and 

 produces an ear at the head of each branch, where- 

 as tlie common corn shoots out the ear from the 

 side of the stalk : it grows from eight to ten feet 

 hin;li, produces an abundance of fodder, and is a 

 large white flint twelve rows long, and ears fiom 

 ten to fourteen inches long. I counted six hun- 

 dred and sixty grains on the ear; it was planted 

 on the 10th ofMay, and had ears fit to boil on the 

 10th of July. Its produce was curtailed by the 

 long drought, but notwithstantling I counted two 

 thousand one hundred and twenty grains, the 

 product of one stalk: beifig an increase of two 

 thousand and one. The Dutton (which is an ex- 

 cellent corn) planted on the same day, on the 

 same field, and received the same quantity of ma- 

 nure, cross ploughed and hoeing, did not produce 

 one half The patch about two hundred hills, 



* This was indeed an important error, and which 



cur readers ai'e it'qtiestrd to correct in their copies. — 



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