Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — INDLAN CORN. [ARTICLE]

INDLAN CORN.

An acre of corn planted the last of April or first of May is worth an acre and quarter planted later in the season. A bushel of I corn raised from early planted seed of the same variety,is worth much more than a bushel raised from that which is late planted. It is sohder, richer, heavier and mure notrijtious. It makes more pork, more beef, and I more bread. Every farmer and every miller knows that there is ten pounds diflerejnce in

the real value of wheat that weighs sixty one pounds to the bushel, and wheat that weighs fifty-seven. The heavier wheat making more flour and of superior quality; the same is true of corn, to whatever use you put it.-’ Corn brought from the south or south-west does not ripen so early as corn raised here. Corn raised for several successive years on hills will ripen earlier if planted in rallies. Corn brought from the north, will for three or four years ripen earlier than the same varieties raised here. A week earlier planting in the Spring will mike more thin two weeks difference in its maturing-in the Fall, The large varieties are most profitable for this county. I planted the Eastern Flint corn, the twelve rowed, last year, in the same field with the white Dent corn. The ground was prepared alike tor both, on account of the wet, at the time of planting,, both were listed in, and ten- ed with shovel plow one way. Both ripened and were cut up. before the frost, and shocked. The Den? corn produced forty bushels to the acre, the Flint, not above twenty, and, on accoir-W of the small tough stalks ofthe latter, I shonfti rather cut up two acres of the Dent tystkthan one ofthe Flint. This flint is of the King Philip variety. But the seed wae procured from the western pa-t of New York about four years ago, and since, ras.-red in this county. There is a variety of Flint corn, of broad thin kernels, eight rowed, called by some 'l'humb-nail or Fied's corn and other Dimes', recently introduced here, tbai promises to be valuable for late planting. I’liere are several improved kinds of corn which have been successful here, for the two or three past years. We need f r Jasper county, a variety of corn that is hardy, sufficiently early to ripen with safety in common years, with prolific large ears, and stalks large enough to stand ’up throughout the Winter in the field where they grow. Such corn can be cut up and shocked in the F ill, if there is time, or left to be gathered in the Winter. Those who test their seed beforehand may sometimes save the trouble of re-planting.