No. 9. 



Indian Corn. 



291 



ludian Corn. 



We give the following as a very interesting record. 

 There is, however, one point, which we take this op- 

 portunity to urge again upon those who make reports 

 of large crops. We allude to the loose manner in 

 which the amount is often guessed at. The man who 

 raises 100 or 150 bushels of corn, or 40 or 50 bushels of; 

 wheat to the acre, can afford, and it ought to be hisj 

 pleasure to measure every quart of it. When two or 

 three rows only, are picked out of a corn field, and the 

 grain is measured in the ear, and that again in the 

 basket, every body that has handled corn, knows very 

 well, that there is abundantly too much room for error. 

 Who would be satisfied with guessing at the weight of 

 an extraordinary bullock, without appealing to the 

 scales? Neither is it satisfactory to approximate 

 merely, to the amount of a great crop of wheat, or 

 corn, or potatoes, or hay, fcc— we want it in bushels,' 

 and pounds, actually ascertained, not guessed at. 

 These remarks are not made with reference to the 

 statements below: the means not being at hand of 

 judging upon what authority, or mode of measurement 

 they rest. — Ed. 



The great crop of the United States, whe- 

 ther we look at quantity or value, is unques- 



tionably our corn crop. Four hundred and 

 fifty millions of bushels in 1840, and proba- 

 bly 500 millions in 1842, show the import- 

 ance of this grain to us. And yet the quan- 

 tity now grown is a mere drop in the bucket, 

 compared with what we might do, should 

 circumstances render it advisable to increase 

 the production to an extent that might easily 

 be reached on the present cultivated lands 

 of the Union. In order to show at a glance 

 what might be done, we have taken the 

 pains to collect a few instances of good 

 crops that have been grown among us, and 

 would remark, that on a very large portion 

 of our soils, in favourable seasons, and with 

 the cultivation corn should receive, crops 

 like those named may as well be grown as 

 inferior ones. It is true, we now and then 

 meet with a farmer or writer who asserts 

 that no man ever saw 75 bushels of com 

 grown on an acre, and that the farmer should 

 be contented with 25; but the only emotion 

 excited by such, is pity that in this country 

 men should be found so far behind the times. 



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 100 



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 131 

 116 

 130 

 144 

 121 

 112 

 120 

 158 

 120 



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 116 

 122 

 113 

 132 



Name and place of cultivator. 



136 R. H. Rose, Silver Lake. Pa 



118 John Stevens, Hoboken, N. J 



172 J. & M. Pratt, Madison, N. Y 



680i " " " •• 



132 Samuel Chidsey, Cayuga, N. Y 



896 Earl Stimson, Saratoga, N. Y 



645 Wm. M'Clure, Alleghany co.. Pa 



680 Joseph Evans, Washington co., Pa 



174 B. Bartlett, Eaton, Madison co., N. Y. 

 116 T. & H. Little, Newburyport, Mass. .. . 

 115i " " .. " " .... 



142 Mr. Wilraarth, Taunton, Mass 



540 Charles Bugbee, Palmer, Mass 



140 Benj. Butler, Chenango, N. Y 



202 Henry Sprague, Worcester, Mass 



103," Old Farmer," Rhode Island 



5,600 Asahcl Renick, Pickaway co., Ohio. .. 



130jS. Lathrop, W. Springfield, Mass , 



2,2U P. Reybold, Newcastle, Delaware 



108! R. H. Sheldon, Cayuga co., N. Y 



110' E. Humphreys, Caledonia, N. Y 



131 R. Lamprey, Moiiltonborough, N. H. . 



Mr. Brown, Strafford, N. H 



P. P. Pilsbury, Tuftonborough, N. H. . 



J. F. Osborn, Cayuga co., N. Y 



J. Sherman, " " 



116 

 130 

 144 

 121 

 112 

 120 

 1.58 

 120 

 1,3.52 

 154 

 232 

 122 

 113 

 132 



Mr. Ellsworth, Conn 



G. W. Williams, Bourbon co., Ky. 



W. Ingalls, Oswego co., N. Y 



J. Myers, Canton, Ohio 



W. Ingalls, Oswego co., N. Y. ... 



B. Bradley. Bloomfield, N. Y 



Samuel Phelps, Cayuga, N. Y. ... 



Wm. Ingell, Oswego, N. Y 



W. Wilcox, Saratoga, N. Y 



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1833 



1835 



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1840 



1841 



1842 



1^42 



1842 



The number of such crops, where the 

 product exceeded 100 bushels per acre, 

 might be extended to a great length, but 

 the above is sufficient. Still we imagine 

 some fanners will say — some have said so — 



that the man who puts manure and labour 

 enough on an acre to get 100 bushels of 

 corn, is a loser. We would ask howT A 

 man may cultivate an acre of corn and get 

 30 bushels an acre, and he will be a loser; 



