OCR Text |
Show THAT BOY CORN RAISER It seems that the one thousand four hundred and four pounds of corn raised by young Milliken in Maine, for which he took the first premium offered by Stillman D. Allon, esq., of Boston, was one thousand four hundred and four pounds of ears, and not of grain. This was grown on one eighth of an acre, making the actual yield about one hundred and sixty bushels to the acre. The average crop of all the contestants, eight in number, was at the rate of one hundred bushels and four quarts to the acre. Yet the premium offered by Frank W. Miller of Portsmouth, N. H., of one hundred dollars in gold to any farmer in that State who would raise one hundred bushels of shelled corn to the acre has never been called for. We have been trying ourself, for the past ten years to get such a crop, but have not yet achieved success. We intend to keep work at it, for notwithstanding so many failures, we believe it can be done. We have several times gone over eighty bushels, and the large proportion of short and imperfect ears in such crops shows plainly that if a full growth is got more than one hundred bushels to the acre will result -- Watchman |