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VOL,. XVI. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1S37. 



NO. 23. 



fFrom the Franklin Farmer.) 



CRITTENDEN, OR BADEN CORN. 



Locust Hill, Franklin Co. Ky., Sept 1, 1837. 

 ■'o the publisher of the Farmer : 



Dear Sir: In cotiipliance with your request, 

 send yon below a minute description of a small 

 iece of corn, of a rare and valuable variety ; the 

 led of which was presented to me last spiin<f, by 

 le Hon. John J. Crittenden, who brought them 

 0111 Washington City ; and which, I propose, 

 mil be called the CriUcnden, as a merited com- 

 imeiit to his public spirit in introducing it. 



It is a soft white corn, of the fourteen rowed 

 iricty, with a white cob of middle size in pro- 

 jrtion to the grains, which are neither very decfi 

 ->r very broad. It was oriirinated by Mr Baden, 

 ' Maryland, (whose name it bears,) who, bv 

 antin:; from the best to])-cars of stalk, which 

 •odi'.ced several ears, tUrough a course of near 

 (•enty years, has produced this new variety ; the 

 lief peculiarity of which is in producing from 2 



8 ears upon a stalk. 



Mr Baden directs it to be iilanted in hills, five 

 et apart each way, and two stalks in a hill ; but 



Older to be sure that the corn should show its 

 ;culiarity, I planted it in moderately rich ground, 

 ithont manure, in hills five feet apart each way, 

 me will) two, some with three, and some few 

 ith four stalks in a hill. I received about a half 

 nt in the grain, and on the 15th of May last, I 

 anted it in a situation remote from other corn, 

 lie only cultivation which it has received, is 



ree ploughings, one hoeing, and one raking 



le ground measures ten by forty yards, about 



If of which is shaded in the evening, by an ad- 



;ent woodland, which has obviously diminished 



B product. 



The ground contains sixty-three hills, besides 



me missing hills. The hills contain six hundred 



d seventy-eight ears, besides some very small 



bbins. 



This will make an average of between nine and 



1 ears to a hill. 



One hill with three stalks has twelve ears in it, 



of which are on one stalk. 

 One hill of four stalks has seven ears on it. 

 One hill of three stalks has seven ears, which 

 ^asure upon an average, eight inches in length ; 



ich 1 think is not much over the average length 



the whole 678 ears. Many of the stalks have 



r and five ears on them, and many of the hills 

 re seven', eight, nine and ten ears to the hill. — 

 e stalks, I think, will average ten feet in height ; 

 I the ears are generally about six feet from the 

 ■und. 



\s the manner in which the corn will be gath- 

 d, will preclude me from measuring the pro- 

 ;t, I have given the above facts, so that those 

 o choose may calculate it. From this exper- 

 !nt, I would infer, that, when planted in rich 

 jund, at tbe proper season, and fully cultivated, 



the products cannot fall far short of double that 

 of the common corn of the country. 



To the farmers of the country, this new variety 

 is certainly of great and surpassing value, on ac- 

 count of its intrinsic merits, but incomparably 

 more so, because it illustrates the fact, that, by 

 pursuing tbe same mode of selecting our seed, we 

 may bring the large yellow corn or large white 

 yorkcheat corn, to the same high state of perfec- 

 tion. And what a magnificent sight it woulil be 

 to see a stalk of our large yellow corn bearing six 

 .ears, each measuring from twelve to fifteen inches 

 in length! and what a glorious immortality awaits 

 that farmer of Kentucky, who shall achieve it ! — 

 Similar has been the fortune of Mr Baden, of Ma- 

 ryland. 



The corn has been planted 4 months, and is now 

 ripening. Five-sixths of it are for distribution, 

 and those who take an interest in it, are invited to 

 call, examine and receive it. 



A hill of it will be exhibited at the Fair of the 

 Franklin Agricultural Society, on the 2d Wednes- 

 day in next month, together with ten or twelve 

 other varieties. 



With sentiments of esteem. 

 Your friend, 



Robert W. Scott. 



Wc duly appreciate the motives which operate 

 in the mind of Mr Scott, in his wish to impart 

 the name of "Criltenden " to the ''Baden " corn ; 

 but although we believe much credit is due to the 

 Hon. Mr Criltenden, for his agency in transmit- 

 ting the seed to his gallant State, we are sure he 

 has too much of that chivalry about him, which 

 so pre-eminently distinguishes Kentuckians, to de- 

 sire, for an instant, to appropriate to himself the 

 honor which belongs to another. Mr Thomas 

 A". Baden, for twenty-two years, toiled with un- 

 flinching perseverance, and unequalled sagacity, 

 to bring this corn to its present state of perfec- 

 tion, and surely there is none but himself entitled 

 to wear the wreath which he has thus nobly 

 won. Swift, with great propriety of thought,and 

 beauty of diction, observed, "that whoever could 

 make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to 

 grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew 

 before, would deserve better of mankind, and do 

 more essential service to his country, than the 

 whole race of politicians put together," — and we 

 would ask, what meed of praise is not due to Mr 

 Baden, who has not only made two ears of corn, 

 but seven, to grow upon a spot of ground, where 

 only one grew before ? Wc may have too much 

 of that feeling, known by the name of enthusiasm 

 about us ; but such is our view of the service ren- 

 dered to his country, by Mr Baden, that we es- 

 teem him as a benefactor ; for, by his skilful im- 

 provement of his corn, he has more than quadru- 

 pled its products; thus adding, in that proportion, 

 ability to the earth to furnish human siistenance, 

 and add to the comforts and necessaries of life. — 

 Batlimore Farmer. 



DISEASES OF SHEEP. 

 The diseases of this most useful animal are but 

 little attended to; numbers die that might be saved 

 by medicine, if shepherds knew what was proper 

 to give them. 



Footrof is a most troublesome and difficult dis- 

 ease to cure. Put the sheep in a dry fold ; clear 

 the dirt from between her claws with an old tooth 

 brush ; apply to the parts aflTected, with a wooden 

 skewor or feather, butler of antimony, ai;d let the 

 sheep remain an hour in the fold. Or, apply a 

 paste, made of equal quantities of blue vitrol, gun- 

 powder an<l train oil. 



Scab. — The most eflectiial remedy is the mer- 

 curial ointment, to be had ready made at all drug- 

 gists ; which is akso good for sore heads, caused 

 by the fly, or for maggots. 



Gurry. — One small tea-spoonful of turpentine 



and four table-spoonsful of salt and water one 



dose is often sufficient. Or, Peruvian bark, gin- 



ger-root, and prepared chalk — one drachm in 



warm gruel, with a table-spoonful of gin or bran- 

 dy. If a severe case, a tea-spoonful of tincture 

 of opium. 



If a sheep that is fat, or nearly so, appears to 

 be off from its food, for some days, from some 

 internal complaint, the safest plan is to have it 

 killed. 



Scouring of youn^ lambs. — Ginger and rhubarb 

 one tea-spoonful, in warm gruel, with ten drop.s 

 of laudanum. Fourteen tea-spoonsful of rhubarb, 

 seven of ginger, and seven of laudanum, or tinc- 

 ture of opium, will dose a score of lambs, about 

 three quarters of a year old. Many flocks of lambs 

 having been kept very short of food during the 

 late dry summer, numbers liave died from eating 

 the young succulent grass which sprung up when 

 the rain came. 



Ewes injured in lambing, — Apply to the parts 

 warm water, and after, warm fresh grease ; and 

 then outside, some known good oils ; give a drachm 

 of Peruvian bark and ginger in gruel, new milk, 

 warm, made of linseed and oatmeal; add a table- 

 spoonful of gin or brandy, and treacle. 



To prevent the fly. — A powder, cotiiposed of 

 white lead and wine arsenic, to be shaken on with 

 an old pepper box ; it is to be had ready prepared 

 of any druggist. 



The most fatal disease is the rot, which is 

 thought to be incurable ; but 1 know from expe- 

 rience, that the progress of the disease may be so 

 checked, that the animal will get fat enough for 

 the butcher. There are various opinions as to 

 the way in which this disease is contracted. I 

 have ever thought it has been by the sheep eating 

 in summer, or autumn, the grass of flooded mea- 

 dows, or swampy pastures, on which some sort of 

 grub had deposited its larvse, which are not des- 

 troyed by the heat of the stomach, but mixing 

 with the chyle, find their way into the vessels of 

 the liver, where they become what are commonly 

 called flukes, from their resemblance in shape, to 

 flounders ; where they absorb the chief nourish- 

 ment of the blood of the animal, and then, in a 



