Farmers' Gazette, and Cheraw Advertiser, 1843-02-21

I have witnessed many instances of tho 1 of a Ivnntages resulting from grinding the , wh cob with tho corn, and have never known j in n person (who had tried it dissatisfied sin with the rcstilt ; it is they only who know ; co? nothing about it who object to it : at nny ! bci rate the ground cob must bo as good as bran, and an addition of one or two thou* sand bushels of bran to the means of feed feeding - ing feeding stock during tho winter would not be DI thought lightly of by nny, one would suppose, it has been remarked, tho cob is ? peculiarly adapted and conveniently situated for grinding and mixing with the corn, assimilating with it, nnd forming a In meal peculiarly congenial to the health of animals ; giving just tho due proportion of coarso food to mix with the fine ; a no- to I cessary consideration in tho feeding ofjhul slock; nnd withal so cheaply supplied, ; no< that one is at n loss to conceive how tho j usc thing has so long been neglected. The j 'l0 objection to grinding the cob with the I 'he corn, while it is new, could be obviated v!e by kiln-drying the cars tho lore part of the : season ; but this would not bo requisite ] es, more than a couplo of months or so, after ,nn harvest, as by that timo tho ears will he sufficiently dry, so us to allow them to ho n"' ground, without danger that the meal Tri would ferment in tho bin. I remember a l'c? correspondent in a former number of the I*'1 Cabinet observes, that Mr. Alexander jus Cooper, of Jersey, has long been in tho custom of grinding the cob with the corn, K01 and that his stock is remarkable for health ; 'utl and condition ; and, from late inquiry, 1 I n''< find that ho still continues tho practice tuf1 with perfect satisfaction. While on a nK< late visit to one of the snme family, at Camden, tho last week, I observed the } same mode of feeding carried out to a I dot considerable extent, and with complete , c'u success ; the meal having been ground . vni so fine, that no one without close exami- 1 Sin nation would have tho idea that it was j to ' aught but meal from clean corn, it is n | On

f ?/ 1 ? ? s to which their public servants should applied, or the positions worthy of m, but from a personal and intimate wof their whole moral as wellasinteU tunl characteristics. Splendid speechor exhibitions of profound thought y givo the appearance of wisdom ; but ur all, it is the wisdom of the heart, and that of the head only, which finds out nth. Truo statesmanship, in a R?pubconsists in currying out into public af"h, the highest principles of right and ticc, and to practico, or oven discern i.so principles, in tho difficult affairs of rernment, implies not only thegreatest ellcctual endowments, but the moat ox2d moral uttributes. Hence the impor* ice to the people, in selecting their Mits for tho administration of their tirs, if possible, to know them personf?to sec the man in his social and ncstic relations, as woll as in the dieirge of his public dutios,?and thua be iblcdtojudgo of tho patriotism of the itcsmnn by his fidelity to dutios nearer litn, as n parent, neighbor, friend.? r country, consisting of multitudes, is, nparatively spcuking, an abstraction; the objects around our hearths, and heating bosoms in daily intercourse h us, will call out whatever virtues wo isess ; and it is difficult to believe that f exist for tho former, which are not closed in the latter relations. For ite reasons we have thought it would grateful to our readers and axpedient ourselves?having long since announ* I our preference of John C. Calhoun, iho next President of the United States roin the most authentic sources to en* ivor briefly to delineate tho personal, ral, and intellectual characteristics of i distinguished statesman, jeeauso matter is not spirit, * the hun faco divine'* can never fully ropret the soul within ; and instead of an n window, it is but too often a thick I to tho bright intelligence and noble urc which fills our hcincr. Few fam.

---- I * " ? " "" r mitigation ol' tho evil, if we can employ v r the stalk measurably as a substitute lor (| . grain. n V AltllM'XKS OF OF WII FAT. l( f From the Cicncscc Farmer. 55 f At the first meeting of the Knglish Ag- v f ricultural Society, the lirsl prize of twenty 1 , sovereigns, (or about 97 dollars,) was ' . awarded to Col. Le Couteur for his uc- *' | count of the most approved varieties of c wheat cultivated in Lnglund. Col. Le v ^ Couteur has doubtless paid more atten- ? lion to wheat and made more accurate H experiments in its cultivation, than any * o.hcr person living, and his opinions nre a therefore entitled to great weight. We ll condense from the remarks of Lord Spencer, the President of the Society, n sketch ' of tho favorite kinds, with some other pur> ticulars. f Tho first kind, or the one deemed the ? most valuable, was the Hoary White or ;| . Velveteen, from tho chalf having a downy c . or velvet feel. This wheat after being ret pcntedly washed in brine that would float (j an egg or a potato was again washed in , lime. The lund wns nrgillaccous, and hud |{ ^ been well manured with dung, and pre- (| pared with the usbes of sca.weed and lime, in places that seemed to require such a dressing. The seed was sown on the 29ilt n * of January, two bushels per acre, and wait (> k harvested the 10th of August. Tho aver' ago produce was 48 bushels of 62 lbs, 1 each. This produced of fine flour 2,402 |, ' lbs., pollard 120 lbs. und of hrun 416 lbs. |, s Tho estimated clear profit of ail acre ol" I this wheat wus J?15 6s. 9i. j-( i Tho next variety in quality nnd value was the Jersey Dantzic, but known in dif. (i . fercnt places by various names. This tT | wheat has n smooth chnfT, and is not lia- p , hie to smut. It ripens a week curlier than

s penso wun a pari ol the blade crop. The s stripping might he postponed until the ( n blades below the ear woro dead. By that ' c time, tho grain would lie so far matured, f s that it would suffer far less than happens ' 11 , when every blade is green at the timo of 0 gathering. v I liavo never yet ascertained tho weight ; ^ s of an acre of fodder corn, but have no ^ . hesitation in saying that it is very great. 1 One acre of good land will furnish an t u nbundnneo of forago for four horses fur i ? . three months. Alulcs appear to ho espe- ; n ^ eially fond of it, and cows running upon s . ordinary pastures, will, if fed with these I . chopped corn stalks, double the butter in q . a few days. 2 It is well known that the avcrnge crop ' f oi corn of the middle nnd northern states, u 1 exceeds our own, and Hint this arises not : v . so much from superiority of soil, as from j * . the numlier of stalks they nre able to . V | crowd upon an acre. With them, the j ! corn plant does not attain a height of l( f more than seven or eight feet, while with s , us it is not uncommon to see stalks four- s . teen feet in height. As a consequence, s, | they uro able to leave four stalks in a hill, tl . when we leave only one, and hence their tl 3 crops nre larger than ours. In this cli- 3 mate, then, the tendency of Indian corn ti { is to grow to stalk, rather than to ear, nnd . by adopting the plan I propose forcultivu- j ' tiller il nviirnuilu Cm.- il." ? l.l...l_ - ' tl

? ) ?/?n ti nil IIIU UIUIU 13 ( 0 oouht about it, and it is only n matter f surprise that every one should not long go have been convinced of the fact by xperimont, which might easily be made y boiling crushed cobs in water for some ours, when, on straining off the water nd setting it to cool, it will be found to >rm a jelly. At the above mentioned meeting I bad le pleasure of conversing with tho intellicut inventor of the machine, Mr. Byer y ; lie is a tanner, and the cob crusher 1 mndo after the plan of his hnrk-mill.? I >n inquiry relating to tho quantity of nurinient contained in the corn cob, he injrined me, that near his bark-mill was a eup of cobs that had been thrown out as , solcss, when u poor woman of the neighorbood, whose only cow was almost tho nly means she hud of supporting her i niiilv, came to ask for some cobs, and [ lint he would pass them through the hark- i nil as food for the cow ; this lie did,and j is petitioner 01 me regularly after, duing tho winter, to get her supply of crushd cobs. At the end of the senson, ho ! /cut to see the cow, and found her in the nest condition, her owner assuring him j tint she had been fed entirely on the rushed cobs, boiled in her iron pot, by 1 Inch she had been enabled to support Imost entirely herself and children by j lie sale of the finest milk and butter ever . Ren ! In an essay 011 Indian corn, by P. A. Irovvne, I'.sq., see p. 187, 2d vol. of Cab. let, it is said, "The cob may lie ground 1

Somo other kind;} were noticed, as tho i olden Drop, very productive ; tho Comdoii Prolific, u course wheat; and Brown's ' 'rolifie, a good whoat on soils suitable to . ts growth ; hut all, in the opinion of Col. | .0 C., yielding in value to the four first j uricties named. From the amount stated ! s the average of tho crops, it would not J com to exceed that of many fields in the i ieneseo country ; though the general verago in England is far greater than in lie United Slates. Of tho four varieties ^referred, the Whittington, from which so uuch has been expected in this country, lands the lowest in the scale of producivencss. From what we hud heard of the |iiality of the berry of this wheat, as cxlibited in the species imported by Mr. riiorburn, we were not prepared to find it wheat that would make ' dark breud,' rhich it seems is the fact. The incidcnal rcmurks on tho time of sowing theso /heats, and tho period elapsing before | egetution, will explain in part the mistake iito which the purchasers of the Whittingr>n wheat have fallen in this country, in 1 opposing it to he a spring wheat in otio eiise of the term. The English fnrmeis j ow wheat from September to April; and j lio wlu-nls sown during tho winter, as j liey do not vegetate or come forward till 1 larch, arc called spring wheats, in dis- [ inclinn from those sown in September I r October, and vegetating immediately. 'ho tori 111' W bents. i?rnni?rlir snnullml I

preceding period. The juices of (lie plant after being elaborated in (lie leaves, np pear to lie concentrated in the stalk, ntu it contains at that time so much saccha rinc matter, that it approximates its taste to the upper joints of the sugar en no itself That this protracted vitality of the stall is owing to the fuct, that the plant is nev cr deprived of the blade, 1 have not ; shadow of doubt. At the very time ir October when I found the stalk of thii fodder corn green, crisp, and juicy, tin stalks of the crop corn from which tin fodder had been gathered at the usua season, were dried up and dead. I infoi from these facts, that the early gatheritq j of fodder is a pernicious practice?he cause, by impairing the vitality of tin stalk of tins corn plant, when in the von act of perfecting the ear, it necessarily interferes with the complete maturity o the grain. 1 advance this as no novelty hut only to rtileralc an important ngri cultural truth. It has been demonstrates hv repeated experiments among the farm ersof the middle and northern slates, thu " topping corn" seriously diminishes th< amount of the crop. By parity of rea son, the abstraction of the fodder before the maturity of the grain, must be attend ed with consequences proportionality in jurious. It is the general impression o planters, that the car of the Indian cori is completely matured at the time o gathering the fodder, uud hcnco that n<

, r. * I r~''J v?M.vu, UIU here usually sown in April. The nverge temperature of Great Britain is much ivver thnn with us, consequently grain of II kinds ripen more slowly, and the barest is proportionality later than with us i the United States. There can he no doubt that new and ulunlile varieties of wheat c.in be proueed by skilful cultivation ; and though t is not probable that all the most essoined varieties in Great Britain would uccced well in this country, or prove as aluablc in our climate as in theirs, still we j bink well ol the efforts made to introduce j he most approved kinds, nnd do notqucsion that our farmers will tied their interst in so doing. In ul| attempts to cultiate English wheat in this country, how. vcr, the difference between oui seasons ud theirs must he hnrrio in mind, or the owing will tukc place nt improper times, nd certain disappointment be (tic result j the cultivator. to:: con and corn crcsukr. Berks county, Nov. 1842. At the Into meeting of the Philadelphia igricultural Society, (here was exhibited machine for crushing or grinding the ob with the corn lor cattle provender? most valuable improvement, and well cserving the favorable notice of every ne engaged in the pursuits of husbandry. | t luis by some been questioned, whether fie cob alone contains sufficient nutrilent to render it worth the labor nnd exnn<n of irm?/lini? !%??* 11....