FARMERS' REGISTER— INDIAN CORN. 



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I "have not treated of diseases to which ducks are 

 subject; since, by the above treatment, I have ge- 

 nerally found them healthy. 



As this is a long essay, and may be too great a 

 tax on your readers to peruse, I would give in a 

 single line, the substance of my directions for the 

 successful rearing of young ducks : 



Give tliem animal food and keep them dry. 



EXPERIBIKKTER. 



qUAXTITY OF INDIAN CORIV TO THE ACRE. 



From the New-York Farmer. 



Meadowhanks , Dcerfield, ) 

 Mass. Sept. 9, 1833. S 

 Mr. Fleet: — Your New- York Farmer for 

 this month was received last evening, and I make 

 no delay in replying to the inquiry of your corres- 

 pondent E. The farmer to wliom I referred, 

 whose crops of corn ibr the last ten years, have 

 averaged more than one hundred bushels to the 

 acre, is Earl Stimj)Son, Esq. of Galway, Sarato- 

 ga county, N. Y. On a visit to his extraordinary 

 and admirable establishment, in July of the last 

 year, where every agricultural operation seems to 

 be conducted in the most skilful and systematic 

 manner, he gave me this assurance, as I lind noted 

 in my journal at the time; and I beg leave to in- 

 form your correspondent, that to any gentleman of 

 agricultural taste and science, a visit to this farm 

 cannot fail to yield instruction and great i)leasure. 

 Mr. Stimpson's success, however, in the culti- 

 vation of this valuable crop, is not singular. Ex- 

 amples of crops as abundant are on record in your 

 correspondent's own state; and to these, and to 

 some others, as extraordinary, it may be useful 

 and gratifying to refer. I ask leave, therefore, to 

 mention a few, which have been submitted to the 

 most careful examination, and the results establish- 

 ed by the fullest proof 



John Stevens, of Hoboken,N. J. produced on 

 one acre, 118 bushels, 2 quarts. "Mr. S. was 

 confident that he would have had considerably 

 more corn, had not his ci'op suffered very greatly 

 by a thunder storm, which laid the greater part of 

 it down at the time the ears were setting." On 

 this crop a bet of fifty guineas was pending. The 

 motives to exact measurement were such, there- 

 fore, as to secure accuracy. This was some years 

 since ; the particular date I am not able to ascertain. 

 Dr. Steele, of Saratoga, in giving an attested 

 account of the crops of Earl Stimpson, in 1821, 

 says that he had eight acres of Indian corn, which 

 yielded 112 bushels to the acre, 896 bushels; 10 

 do. do. 90 bushels to the acre, 900 bushels ; (Me- 

 moirs of New-York Agricultural Society, vol. 2, 

 page 73.) 



The following individuals applied to the Agri- 

 cultural Society in Washington county, Penn. in 

 October, 1823, for premiums, with authenticated 

 evidence of the quantity raised per acre, on not 

 less than five acres: Joseph Evans, 136 bushels 

 per acre — John Wolf, 127| do. do. — Samuel An- 

 derson , 123 bushels 12 quarts, do. — Isaac Vanvook- 

 ens, 120 do. do. — Isaac Buckingham, 118 bushels 

 1 quart, do. do. — James Clakey, 113 do. do. — Jesse 

 Cooper, 108 do. do. — De Gross Jennings, 120 do. do. 

 - In the same year the following individuals ap- 

 plied to the Alleghany County Agricultural So- 

 ciety, for premiums on their crops : James Ander- 

 son, of Ross township, 103 bushels, 17 quarts, on 



one acre — John Snyder, of do. 103 per acre, on five 

 acres — John Irwin, of do. 105 bushels 20 quarts 

 per acre, on 4ff acres — Wm. M'Clure, 129 bushels 

 per acre, on five acres. (Memoirs of Pennsylva- 

 nia Agricultural Society, vol. 6, page 228.) 

 ■ In 1822, J. & M. Pratt, of Ea'ston, Madison 

 county, N. Y. obtained from one acre, \11\ bush- 

 els — do. do. 161 do. — do. do. 161 do. 



In 1824, the same gentlemen obtained from four 

 acres 680 bushels, or 170 to the acre. 



From public and j)rivate testimony I know 

 that tlie respectability of these gentlemen is such 

 as to justify entire confidence in their statements; 

 and their crops were subjected to the particular ex- 

 amination of committees for a premium. The 

 Messrs. Pratt, say tliey have no doubt of being 

 able to ol)taiii 200 bushels to an acre. 



In 1823, Benj. Bartlett, of Easton, Madison 

 county, N. Y. obtained from one acre 174 bushels. 

 Tlie veracity of this gentleman is erjually unques- 

 tioned ; and his, too, was a premium crop. 



In 1831, Benjamin Butler, of Oxford, Chenan- 

 go county, N. Y. states that he raised on one acre, 

 130 bushels, at 60 lbs. per bushel, or 140 bushels 

 at 56 lbs. per bushel. (New-England Farmer, 

 for Nov. 1831 ) 



We will come now to some crops which have 

 been produced in Massachusetts, on our cold, and 

 rocky and despised soil. The evidence of these 

 crops is ample and of undoubted character. 



In 1820, J. Ilunnewell, of Newton, produced 

 111^ bushels to an acre. 



In 1822, J. Valentine, of Hopkinton, produced 

 116 bushels, 28 quarts, to an acre — D. Burnham, 

 of Newbury, 117 bushels 8 quarts, do. — T. & H. 

 Little, of do. 116 do. — P. Williams, of Fitchburg, 

 116 bushels 12 quarts, do. — W. Hull, of Newton, 

 at the rate of 118 bushels, on seven eightlis of an 

 acre. 



In 1823, Fitch Winchester, of Southboroughj 

 103 bushels per acre — John Lees, of Newbury, 

 113 bushels 16 quarts, do.— T. & H. Little of do. 

 115 bushels do. — Thaddeus Howard, of West 

 Bridgwater, 122 bushels 23 quarts, do. 



In 1824, Wilmarth of Taunton, 142 bushels per 

 acre. 



1825, S. Longley, of Shirly, 112 bushels 21 

 quarts per acre. 



1827, John Andrew, of Danvers, 110 bushels 

 per acre. 



1831, Charles Bugbee, of Palmer, in Hamp- 

 shire county, states that he has protluced, on five 

 acres, 540 bushels, or 108 bushels to the acre. 

 (New-England Farmer, for Nov. 1831.) 



I might produce many other examples of crops 

 approximating a hundred bushels, and some as 

 large as those which are above referred to. The 

 above are fully attested by the examination of com- 

 mittees ; and are, in most cases, certified under 

 oath, with the exception of the last, which rests 

 upon the personal declaration of the gentleman 

 named, whose integrity I have no reason to dis- 

 trust, thovigh I have not the pleasure of knowing 

 him, excepting through the communication above 

 referred to. 



Another gentleman, whose name has escaped 

 me, residing in Windsor, Berkshire co. Mass. on 

 the very ridge of the Green Mountain range, in a 

 spot whose aspect was particularly propitious, pro- 

 duced a few years since, 240 bushels of corn on two 

 acres, lying in one piece, for which he received the 



