The Spirit Of The Times

Kentucky Corn Crops.— We expected ere this to have procured the statements of Messrs Bryan and Young of Jessamine who produced 200 bushels of corn to the acre, last year. The extraordinary crops grown by these gentlemen were scarcely more remarkable, than the fact that neither of them has published a statement of his practice. They owe it to the cause of good husbandry to detail their practice Mr. Williams of Bourbon, who produced nearly as good a crop (about 170 bushels) promptly gave the country the benefits of his experience.—[Kentucky Farmer.]

We think with the Farmer on this subject, and hope our friend Stevenson will not let the matter rest, until full details of the course pursued to produce such an 'extraordinary' crop are laid before the public. We remember when a reported crop of 100 bushels to the acre was considered a great story, and old farmers did not hesitate to assert that 100 bushels could not be made to grow on an acre of land. That crop has, however, now become comparatively common, and when we hear of that crop being doubled we think the farming community have a right not only to the evidence on which the claim rests, but the practice which produces such successful results; for it must be remembered that in farming, what is once done can be done again, and by others also under favorable and similar circumstances.

We know that in fine cattle, and great corn Kentucky is hard to 'beat; let her sons reveal, as far as possible, the secret of their success.—Cultivator.