THE AGRICULTURIST.

From the Albany Cultivator.

Indian Com Culture at the South.
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FROM he AtodHy CWttVatoT'


Indian Com Culture at the South.


This letter is particularly intended
for the perusal Of the planters in the
Southwest. If there be any particu'
larly successful in making large crops
of corn per acre, say in a field or crop
Of one hundred acres, or more, that
will average all over, say thirty BUSH
els to the acre, should be much gra-
titled to see statement in the Cult.
vator, of the whole process Of making
said crop; first, the preparation of the
land; the distance in planting obser-
we'd; whether in hills or drill one stalk
or two stalks to the hill; and if drilled,
the distances, &C., observed-what
manures are used, and if cotton seed,
how applied; on the surface or below;
and an exact account of the blowing
and hoeing at each working given the
corn. 1t is thought by many that
making corn crops is a task SO easy, it
requires but little attention, and no
doubt but the above enquiries will
start,e some, thinking the questions
asked were already known TO any one
who had made tive crops. A great
deal is said here about making corn
Of late. and a great deal more has
Been told to have been made than re-
ally has, for no planter in my knowl.
edge knows for certainty what he has
had housed; all is guess work, and
what is certain, the corn never holds
out in one fourth of his calculations.
Itis gathered and housed unshucked.
The only basis for calculations are the
wagon loads, no two men agreeing on
what the wagon contains; aud last,
but not least, the acres in the fields
planted are all guess work. As such,
one is not far wrong in surmising that
from beginning to last, all is guess
\ work and uncertainty: nothing based
on certainty or facts.


Our lands are fresh and strong, and
with proper cultivation they ought to
be made to average at least thirty
bushels Of corn to the acre. For my
own part l have heretofore been in
jured by crowding too much; our eli
mate being too hot, it has invariably
fired. have manured highly with
cotton seed; distance 81 by 81 feet.
and 5 by 5 feet"two stalks, which
shared the same fate. 1t appears to
me that in strong lands we'll manured
corn should stand these distances and
do we'll; nevertheless the results for
the last two years have proven disad-
vantageous. My first plowings have
been deep; first siding the corn with a
shooter, and breaking out the balk
with turning plow the last plowings
very light, depending on good hoeing,
dirting the corn with the hoe. My
lands planted are porous earth, light
soil, and will yield on an average,
eight hundred pounds of cotton per
acre, manured.


In conclusion, ift there are any plan
tiers who do make certain, thirty bush,
els Of corn to the acre, all round, in a
crop from one hundred to ore hundred
and fifty acres, with the manures at
hand on our plantations, they will
please publish in the Cullivator the
whole process of so doing, and much
oblige


A YOUNG PLANTER.


Eufalla, Alabama, 1916.


COHT0N----Its Growth and Cultun.


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