THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’S GREAT 
CORN YIELD. 
Interesting facts for new Readers. 
last season the farming community were 
somewhat startled by n statement printed in 
these columns, from the Rural Experiment 
Farm, that the yield of corn would reach up¬ 
wards of lot) bushels of shelled grain per acre. 
Naturally the statement was discredited, even 
by the Rural’s friends. Some mistake, it was 
thought, must havo been made, especially as 
this immense yield hod been produced on 
fields that hud for six or more previous years 
received no manure of any kind, and for the 
com had received an average of but 40U 
pounds of concentrated fertilizer. 
A number of well-known men were invited 
to the Rural Farm to examine into, and to 
eomlirm or disprove our statement. Tho fol¬ 
lowing report was signed by Robert J. Dodge, 
C. E., President Fanners’ Club, American In¬ 
stitute; W. N. Habershaw, F. C. S., Chemist, 
N. Y. State Ag’l. Society, and L. C. Ben¬ 
edict, Ag. Editor of the Now York World: 
“Report on a Held of corn at Hewlett’s, Long 
Island, belonging to the Rural New-York¬ 
er, made Oct. 12th, 1880. Size of plot, old ft. 
by 122.4, or .87 of an acre of corn—“Blount’s 
Dent”—sown by machine in rows four feet 
three inches apart, and each single kernel in¬ 
tended to tic 15 inches from its neighbors. 
Flat culture, with, as wo understand, 1300 
pounds of special corn fertilizer harrowed in 
broadcast, before planting, 100 pounds of the 
same when the corn was six inches high, and 
100 pounds of potato special when about 18 
inches high. From a judicious selection of 
stooks and careful measurement and weigh¬ 
ing, wo find the total yield was 227 bushel 
baskets of coni on the cob, or 201 bushels 
upon an acre. 
We also shelled and weighed a quantity and 
ascertained the gross weight of three and 
seven-eights baskets to be 120 pounds, or 35. L 
to one bushel, and further that 35 pounds of 
com in the ea r gave 28.05 pounds of grain 
and 0.05 of cob. and measured 17.1 quarts. 
This calculation showed that t he equivalent 
of 201 bushels of com on the col> was 130.4 
bushels of grains, and about tlu'ee bushels or 
a little more which Mr. Carman had selected 
from the most prolific stalks, and had already 
placed in the barn, or a grand total of about 
142 bushels of shelled corn per acre. 
Robert J. Doih:e, C. E. Pres’t Farm¬ 
ers’ Club, American Institute. 
W. N. Habershaw, F. C. S., 
Chemist , N. Y. St ate, Ag 1 ! Society. 
L. C. Benedict, Ag’l. Ed. N. Y. World. 
Other certificates from gentlemen well- 
known to tho country were published after¬ 
wards, so thafconr statements as to tho yield 
were substantially corroborated, and, us the 
actual measurements afterwards attested, 
this must stand as tho greatest yield of Indian 
com ever produced, the cost of production 
considered. 
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The Fair Number of the Rural New-Yorker 
is issued annually. We shall be pi eased to 
send specimen numbers of our regular edi¬ 
tions to all who apply, free and post ]ia id. 
Thus all may have the opportunity of judging 
for themselves. 
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