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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, \mX 



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AGRICULTURAL. 



From the Farmer's Moathly Visitor. 



INDIAN CORN CROPS. 

 New Hajipshire against the Union. 

 There cannot be a more desirable climate forve- 

 able production tlian one which is adapted to the 

 wth of Indian corn ; and the soil on which Indi- 

 corn grows will never fail, with a proper appli- 

 on of labor, to produce abundance for man and 

 St. Now in the production of Indian corn, the 

 of New Hampshire will not shrink from a com- 

 son with any other part of the country. 

 !"he immense crops of corn-^vhich have been re- 

 tedly raised in the county of Stratford, in the vi- 

 ty of the beautiful Lake Winnipisseogee — in 

 tltonborough, Tuftonborough and Wolfeborougii, 

 prising the islands and shore on the north side 

 be lake, and in Barnstcad and Gilmanton, at a 

 miles distance over the Gunstock mountains to 

 south-east of the lake; these crops have been 

 ced repeatedly by gentlemen farmers in Mas- 

 lusetts and otlier places, as being too great for 

 belief of the credulous. One hundred thirty- 

 ^n bushels to the single acre, raised if we do not 

 ake, on '.he fertile hills of iJarnstead, or ^ven 

 hundred and seven bushels to the acre raised by 

 friend Brown on the Winnipisseogee island, 

 too great an amount: it was probably corn in 

 ear — so much shelled corn could not be made 

 row on an acre, said a distinguished agricultu- 

 in conversation with the editor of the Visitor, 

 did not positively contradict him, because we 

 d not say that we had actually seen with our 

 eyes tlie acre that had yielded so much. But 

 lave now the evidence of a yield of InijAp corn 

 >d by Mr Brown the present year, " we^glied by 

 ■nan appointed to measure crops for premiums"' 

 le county of Strafford ; and this whole crop of 

 weight of 8051 lbs., measuring the traced corn 

 le ear at 70 lbs. to the busliel, and that whicli 

 not traced, at G8 1-4 to tlie bushel, was one 

 ired and sixken bushels. If we cart believe a 

 iterested witness, we must give credit to this 

 ?ment. 



/e have heretofore published in the Visitor, 

 1 under the hand of Mr Brown himself, the man- 

 m which he raises these great crops of corn, 

 does it by putting upon the land double the 

 d quantity of manure, and by bestowing as 

 h labor upon a single acre as is ordinarily be- 

 'cd upon two and throe acres. The soil upon 

 e islands— not alluvion, but common rocky 

 with a hard pan or subsoil, is probably of that 

 on which manure and cultivation will have 

 r greatest effect; the same may be said of most 

 le swelled hill lands in Meredith, Gilmanton, 

 latead and other towns in Strafford county. — 

 result of Mr Brown's experiment proves that 

 r is more profitably applied by him in the culti- 

 )n of his corn field than by farmers generally ; 

 lis one acre produces, a present crop equal to 

 common crop of three acres ; and this crop 



leaves the condition of the land such that it will 

 produce, without any further application of manure, 

 at least twice the usual amount of wheat or oats 

 for the first year and of grass afterwards for some 

 five or si.K subsequent seasons. 



Mr Brown's preparation, according to our recol- 

 lection, is, to take land which had been broken up 

 from the sward and planted once with |-,otatoes, 

 with a first application of some twelve or fifteen 

 loads of coarse manure before planting. After the 

 first crop is taken off, apply twelve or fifteen loads 

 of manure and plough it in deep in the fall. The 

 ne.xt spring plough in at a less depth some fifteen 

 to twenty loads more of finer manure. In this way 

 the whole soil for from si.x to ten inches deep is 

 pulverized and feels the efi'ect of the manure. In 

 addition to these advantages, Mr Brown has an e.x- 

 cellent kind of corn adapted to a northern climate, 

 wliich he has been improving for several years, and 

 which will come to maturity in three months from 

 the time of planting. If we could be sure of a sea- 

 son of four months free from frost, there are otlier 

 larger kinds of corn — the Dutton twelve and six- 

 teen rowed, or the long eight-rowed ear called the 

 Parker corn, for example — that might grow more 

 upon the acre than the Brown corn. But in land 

 j:''eparcd as he prepares his, with rows three feet 

 apart, and the hills in the rows placed at the dis- 

 tance of two feet each from the other, and three 

 stalks to the hill — we do not believe there is a kind 

 of corn in the country that will, year in and year 

 out, produce a greater quantity on the same ground. 

 Mr Brown's kind yields larger ears and more in 

 quantity of corn in proportion to the size of the 

 stalk, than any other kind within our observation. 

 But Mr Brown's crop of one hundred and six- 

 teen bushels to the acre, was not the largest crop 

 of corn raised this year in New Hampshire. The 

 green islands which stud the charming Winnipis- 

 seogee, bear away the palm for the greatest crops 

 of corn. Mr Robert Lamprey, whose farm is on 

 the same island with Mr Brown's, within the limits 

 of the town of Moultonborough, has raised this 

 year from one acre, one hundred and thirtyonc bush- 

 els and seven quarts, "estimated in the usual way, 

 by measuring all in a basket and shelling one bask- 

 et full." Some grains of allowance must be made 

 for this mode of measuring, as the persons who har- 

 vested the corn would naturally feel an interest to 

 pack the basket to be slielled quite as close as any 

 basket which was iiot shelled. .Mr Paul P. Pils- 

 bury lives on Cow island, situated in the town of 

 Tuftonborough, some few miles eastward of Lono- 

 island on the same lake shore ; and his crop of 

 corn, measured in the same way as that of Mr 

 Lamprey, was one hundred and thirty bushels to the 

 acre. 



Mr Lamprey nnd Mr Pilsbury have eacii sent to 

 the editor of the Monthly Visitor a trace of the 

 corn raised on their respective lots: the samples 

 are the most beautiful we have ever seen. Both 

 kinds of corn are in some respects similar, be ino- a 

 mi.xture resembling partly the Dutton and partly 

 the Brown corn. Mr Lamprey's corn has the near- 

 est resemblance of the Brown kind — the kernels 



have a varnished exterior with the same elegant 

 blazed tinge — a part is eight, and apart ten and 

 twelve rowed. The ears are larger than the Brown 

 corn— the kernels are smaller but the cob is larger. 

 In Mr Pilsbury's sample the ears are large but not 

 as long as the other — the color of the corn is a 

 lighter yellow, the kernels something smaller, and 

 the cob larger, especially at tlie stump end. In 

 both samples the ears of corn are covered to the 

 tips, and there was a beautiful uniformity of kernel 

 from one end of the ear to the other. 



The Brown corn, wlicre it has had a fair trial, 

 has fully come up to the expectations of the public. 

 Benaiah Cooke, Esq., editor of the Cheshire Par- 

 mer, exhibited a few traces of his corn raised on 

 his premises, at the late agricultural meeting at 

 Keene : all tjie seed he raised was at once bespo- 

 ken by the farmer's of Clieshire ; and so p resing 

 was the demand for this seed, that Mr Cooke at 

 once proceeded personally to Long island, a dis- 

 tance of nearly one hundred miles, and purchased 

 from Mr Brown himself, all he could spare of his 

 great crop of the present year. 



The crop of Brown corn raised this year by the 

 editor of the Monthly Visitor, was as good a.s any 

 crop we had seen in the vicinity. The ground 

 •irr.s not ad good, nor did it ha-ve the advantages of 

 that of Mr Brown. It was a track upon the inter- 

 vale bordering upon the Merrimack river, which 

 had been formed, not by a deposite of sediment by 

 the backing up of the raised stream, but by the 

 washing on of sand directly over it. Tliis land 

 had not, until it came into our possession, been con- 

 sidered worth cultivation; two years ago it was 

 covered with bushes, and where the surface was 

 stirred the wind blew the sand over much of it so 

 as to prevent vegetation. Vet on one acre of this 

 land we think was produced full seventy bushels 

 of shelled corn. Of this kind of corn we have sav- 

 ed full fifty bushels of seed. A part of this has 

 been engaged in Boston. Mr Samuel Whitney, 

 living on the premises of the editor, selected from 

 the field about forty bushels of the finest ears of 

 the crop, which have been carefully traced and 

 hung up.. Gentlemen who may wish to furnish 

 themselves with this kind of corn, will please to 

 apply to Mr Whitney, who also will have the dis- 

 position of a few bushels of Rohan potatoes raised 

 by the editor of the Visitor. 



We copy the following from the Cheshire Far- 

 mer for October : 



" Brown Corn. — It will be recollected that we 

 previously have given some account of a kind of 

 corn denominated the " Brown Corn." We pro- 

 cured last spring, one and a half bushel of this 

 corn of Air Brown, and planted one acre with it, 

 and sold the rest. Our acre did very well, produc- 

 ing, as was judged by many farmers who saw it, 

 not far from forty bushels. .\s we picked a part of 

 it for seed, and fed out some without measuring, we 

 are not able to give the exact amount, though it 

 would not vary much from 40 bushels. It is a large 

 eight-rowed corn, and very early — a specimen of it 

 may be seen at this office. We exhibited some of 



