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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[ April, 
Indian Corn at the South and the North. 
As corn is the most important food crop 
produced in the United States, it becomes 
highly necessary to pay more attention to 
the proper planting and cultivation of it in 
the future, than has hitherto been done. 
Fig. 1.— FRONT VIEW OF LARGE FARM BARN. 
South as late as the last of July, has ripened 
well in October and made a fair crop. It is 
absurd to contend that Northern seed will 
not produce good crops at the South. But 
in order to do this, it must be planted as 
at the North, the hills not over three feet 
apart, and even a little closer perhaps in 
some instances. They 
have no hotter or more 
drying weather than in 
May and June, when 
the corn obtains the 
most of its growth, than 
we have at the North in 
July and August. For 
many years past, seed 
has been sent to the 
South from lower Mary¬ 
land, and so on as far 
as Northern Maine; and 
intelligently planted 
and cultivated, if the 
season proved at all 
favorable, it has pro¬ 
duced better and more 
certain crops than home 
selected seed. The 
During the past two years, disastrous failures 
have been experienced in parts of the largest 
producing corn States in the Union, which 
might have been avoided in a measure, had 
due attention been given to a selection of 
seed. For this the earliest ripening ears in 
the district where grown should be saved, 
when it is decided to use home grown seed ; 
but undoubtedly a better and safer course 
would generally be, to choose seed produced 
two or three degrees north of the locality to 
be planted. This would ripen in a week or 
two less time than the native seed, and thus, 
if the season for the first planting turned out 
disastrous, a second planting could be made 
with the fair assurance that a good crop 
would be grown from it. If early autumnal 
frosts fall, the crop grown from this more 
Northern seed will be sufficiently ripened to 
prevent its receiving any injury. The 
Southern States, in respect to their climate, 
have a great advantage over the Northern in 
growing corn. Planting can be begun from 
two to three months earlier, and also later. 
If then the farmers there would select seed of 
their own for successive plantings, together 
with that from a range of from three to thir¬ 
teen degrees north of them, according to their 
situation, they would be certain to get a fair 
crop from one or the other of these selec¬ 
tions. If early frost or drouth affected the 
crop, it could be planted over again ; and 
then if the summer weather proved favor¬ 
able, a good crop would be realized. If the 
South ought at least to grow its own com, 
and fatten its own swine; and if to this 
it added a moderate amount of mutton and 
beef, it would be so much the better for that 
part of our country. Except in the dis¬ 
tricts where cotton, rice, and sugar can be 
Fig. 3.— MAIN FLOOR OF BARN, 
most profitably cultivated, all the food for 
man and beast should be grown, and the ex¬ 
cess of labor alone after this be put into the 
production of cotton. The planters would 
grow rich then much faster than they now do. 
A Large Farm Barn. 
FIRST PRIZE IN CLASS COSTING OVER $1,000, BY 
HOOK" (A. A. WOOD), WASH. CO., R. I. 
weather during the spring was propitious, 
the crop would be so well advanced by sum¬ 
mer as to receive no injury, if a drouth then 
followed. Early Northern corn planted far 
harness closet; y, water tank for cattle;; 
x, x, x, manure traps. The engine room con¬ 
tains a portable feed mill and a forge. The 
tool room is large enough to contain all the 
farm machinery when stored at the close of 
the season. The floor of this room and all the 
space over the unexcavated portions are in 
concrete. The silo is filled from the floor 
Figures 1 and 2 show the exterior of this 
barn. The main floor is seen in 
figure 3, in which g is a grain 
bin, with shutes to the floor 
below; t, opening for filling 
steam chest; s, hay shutes; r, 
r, r, openings in floor for hand¬ 
ling the hay. The granary has 
shutes to feed the mill below. 
The ensilage cutter is on this 
floor, and is run by shafting 
from the engine room. Figure 
4 shows the feeding floor. The 
steam chest is at a; b, small 
boiler; c, carpenter’s bench; e, 
elevator from root cellar; m, m, mixing 
troughs; 7, stairs to granary; /, to cellar; w, t, 
water trough; lb, loose boxes; s, hay shute to 
cellar; 7, trap-door; r, trap to root cellar; h, 
above, or the feeding floor, as desired. Each, 
floor is nine feet in clear, with front and rear 
doors twelve feet wide. The arrangement of 
the stalls and mangers for cattle are shown 
in figures 5 and 6. The galvanized trough,. 
t, is for water. The manger fronts are set- 
in cleats, and may be moved to shorten or 
lengthen the stalls. The cellar is shown in 
figure 7. All partitions are movable, for 
access of carts to any part for removing ma- 
The portion under the horse stable- 
would make a warm hen-house in winter. 
The following are the estimates for ma¬ 
terial and labor in building this barn: 
Estimate. 
2,600 ft. 4 by 6 in. Posts, 
Spruce, 18 ft. 
2,000 ft. 4 by 6 in. Sills, Spruce. 
1,200 ft. 8 by 6 in. Plates, 
Spruce. 
2,600 ft. 2 bv 6 in. Floor Joist, 
Spruce, 12 by 16 ft. 
1,328 ft. 2 by 6 in. Rafters, 
Spruce, 24 ft. 
864 ft. 2 by 6 in. Rafters, 
Spruce, 18 ft. 
1,000 ft. 2 by 6 in. Stall Posts, 
etc., Spruce. 
4,000 ft. 3 by 4 in. Braces, 
Girts, etc. 
.$249.60- 
Total, 15,600 ft. @ $16 00, 
4.500 ft. 6 bv 6 in. Sills, Chestnut. 112.50 
60,000 Shingles @ $3.00. 180.00 
6 , 00 ft. Hemlock Roof © 14c. 84.00 
9,000 ft. Matched Pine @ 2:>c. 225.00 
4,000 ft. Matched Spruce @22c. 88.00 
4,000 ft. 2-in. Matched Spruce @ 16c. 64.00 
100 yds. Concrete @ 50c . 50.00 
1.500 Brick @ $10.00. 150.00 
36 Windows © $2.00. 72.00 
11 Windows at $1.00. 11.00 
2 Double Slide-doors. 25.00 
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200 lbs. White Lead @ 7Xc. 15.00 
8 galls. Oil @ 62c. 4.96 
400 ft. Mouldings @ 2>*c. 10.00 
Carpenters’ Work. 850.00 
140 cds. StoneWork. 140.00 
Brick Work. 105-00 
Painting, one coat. SO.OO- 
Nails, etc., etc. 85 00 
Gutters, etc.... 15.00 
Figs 5.—SIDE VIEW OF STALLS, 
ugly, useless excrescence in Brahmas, 
Total.$2,056.06 
The Engine, Feed Mill, etc., are not fixtures. A watering 
arrangement would cost about $1.(0 per stall. 
The “ London Live Stock Journal” reports 
an “insane rage” for Vulture Hocks, the 
We wonder English poulterers will not 
try and rid their fowls of this, as was 
