No. 9. 



'Farmer^s Work. 



141 



Average from 1825 to 18-28: 



Wheat 

 Other Grains 

 Potatoes and Chesnuts 

 Wine 



Hcciolitre. 

 60,553,000 

 114,733,000 

 46.238,000 

 35,500,000 



A French Hectolitre is 22.009667 gallons 

 English. 



The grain produced in Spain is of an ad- 

 mirable quality, yet they do not grow grain 

 enough for their own use ; they make regular 

 importations. 



The agriculture of this kingdom is remark- 

 able for producing wool, wine and barilla. 

 The entire number of sheep is five millions. 



They consume tweli'e million quarters of 

 grain annually, of which they raise two 

 thirds. ' 



Portugal, though generally fertile, does not 

 produce one-third of the grain necessary to 

 supply its wants. The chief objects of atten^ 

 tion are the vine and the olive. 



Maize succeeds in Switzerland, 2000 to 

 2500 feet elevation. — [Geological Die. vol, 

 2, p. 58.] 



The Missionaries, Smith and Dwight, state 

 that they found rich and luxuriant crops of 

 Indian corn growing in Asiatic Turkey. 



III. How much is raised in the United 

 States 1 



I have not been able to arrive at even an 

 approximation to the amount of Indian Corn 

 raised in the United States, although I have 

 spared no pains to obtain it ; a gentleman in 

 Missouri writes to me that " on the meadow 

 lands of Missouri, bordering on ihe Mississippi 

 River, he saw last summer thousands of acres 

 of Indian Corn in Clark, Lewis and Madison 

 counties, which produced not less than one 

 hundred bushels to the acre, without any 

 use of the hoe." 



A gentleman in Kentucky says, " It is im- 

 possible for me to state any thing like the 

 exact quantity of Indian Corn raised in our 

 State ; it is a principal grain with us, and it 

 is no uncommon thing for our farmers to 

 plant from one hundred to five hundred acres 

 each year. In regard to the quantity exported 

 from this state, I am not prepared to give 

 any very accurate account, but believe it to be 

 small in proportion to all other exports; my 

 reasons are that it is a heavy article, and we 

 live far inland,* and our principal attention 

 has been for many yearsjturned to the raising 

 of stock, and when we reflect upon the vast 

 amount of stock driven from our State to 

 every other of the United States, it would be 

 wonderful if we should export any conside- 

 rable amount of grain of any kind. In order 

 to give a fair idea of what is thought to be 

 the ability of this and the adjoining State to 



I export corn, I well mention that I have seen 

 i within a> few days an advertisement calling 

 {for 20,000 bushels of corn to be delivered at 

 a single point on the Mississippi river, and 

 believe the price has been for some time from 

 one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents the 

 bushel." 



Even in our own State I have been unsuc- 

 cessful; a gentleman of Chester County 

 writes to me. " I could not venture even to 

 guess at an answer to your ninth question. 

 1 can scarcely guess at the quantity exported. 

 I will, however, submit to you the following 

 data for a calculation. — Chester County is 

 about fifty miles long, and twenty miles 

 wide. About half the land is under cultiva- 

 tion. About one-tenth of the arable is an- 

 nually planted with Indian Corn. The av- 

 erage product of this, is about forty bushels 

 per acre, or perhaps (taking the whole 

 [county,) not more tiian thirty bushels per 

 jacre. It is probable that one-third of the 

 i whole product is sent to market. Taking 

 [thirty bushels as the average crop, these data 

 1 would make about three hundred and twenty 

 jtiiousand bushels of Indian Corn exported 

 annually from this county. This I think is 

 ,a low estimate." 



* Spiing Valley, Fayette county. 



Farmer's Work. 



ON THE USE OF LIME IN RAISING WHEAT. 



In our last number, we produced some 

 facts, which had a tendency to prove that 

 lime, in some of its compounds, was not 

 only useful, but indispensable for the raising 

 of wheat. Our authorities for this assertion, 

 were derived from the British writers. We 

 will now adduce the testimony of an Ameri- 

 can cultivator, relative to the value of lime, 

 especially for wheat, and give some practical 

 directions for the application of this indispen- 

 sable requisite for good farming. 



A writer of the New York Evening Post, 

 asserts that "he has experienced the efficacy 

 of slack lime as a manure on ground that 

 was entirely worn out, producing nothing 

 but five fingered leaves and weeds. The 

 ground was tilled, and 40 bushels to the acre 

 was spread over it. It was seeded with 

 grain, and timothy and clover were sown at 

 the same time. It yielded me a fine crop. I 

 mowed the same five years, without adding 

 any manure. The second manuring was still 

 more efficacious, when 60 or 80 bushels were 

 used. Forty bushels, however, is as much 

 as should be used the first time. I know of 

 a farm in Ney Jersey in a lime stone coun- 

 try, completely worn out. The most that 

 could be obtained for it was fifteen dollars 

 per acre. I presume the purchaser would 

 not now sell it for 50 dollars per acre. It is 

 entirely renewed by lime, and it is a pleasure 

 to look over it. 



