. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. CORN. 823. grinding shell corn, wheat, or other grain, it is only necessary to remove the tulies nil the feed-box, which will hold from eight to ten bushels. A one-horse mill of this kind will grind from twelve to fif- teen bushels per hour; where two horses are used, from fif- teen to eighteen bushels can be ground in that time. The 'Large Giant" has u grind- ing capacity for about twenty- five bushels per hour. Such mills are very durable, and nut liabl
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. CORN. 823. grinding shell corn, wheat, or other grain, it is only necessary to remove the tulies nil the feed-box, which will hold from eight to ten bushels. A one-horse mill of this kind will grind from twelve to fif- teen bushels per hour; where two horses are used, from fif- teen to eighteen bushels can be ground in that time. The 'Large Giant" has u grind- ing capacity for about twenty- five bushels per hour. Such mills are very durable, and nut liable to get out of repair. Diseases of torn, etc. ' —The diseases of corn are neither very numerous nor ex- tensive in their results. In some seasons, especially those that are warm and wet, smut will sometimes make its ap- pearance and destroy a con- siderable number of the ears. Almost ever}' farmer is famil- iar with its appearance to a certain extent, and its results ' upon the crop. It does not LAiiGE GIANT. always attack the grain, as it appears on the tassel, stalk, and even upon the leaves. Wherever it makes its appearance, there is an unnatural growth of a spongy nature, an increased size or swelling of the part affected, which at a later period is broken open, showing the smut, which consists of micros- copically small grains—the spores or reproductive bodies of the corn-smut fungus. These grain smuts are minute parasitic plants, the portion of which corresponding to the root of other plants lives in the tissues of the corn, causing the abnormal growth. How or when the smut-plant begins its work upon the corn is not known, various theories being entertained respecting it, some supposing that the spores are planted with the grain, and germinate and grow as the plant increases in size; others, that these spores float in the air, and, coming in contact with the corn, germinate and grow upon the surface, send- ing their roots through the tissues of the corn-stems and lea
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