Oxford eagle., 1895-06-13
FARMER AND PLANTER.
TO GROW CORN.


It May be Doae Successfully. Rain or No
Rsin-
I have never known a seed that
would sprout or germinate without
some moisture; in fact. the moisture is
all that is needed to sprout seeds
Seeds will sprout and come to the sur
face without drawing anything from
the soil but moisture and heat; then
they need something else; a new proc
ess takes place, and the new plant then
draws from the soil and atmosphere
But after corn is well mp. il can be cul-
tivated with very little or no rain-ac-
cording to the nature OF the soil and
then yield surprisingly. You At once
ask how il il done.
Well. it is very simple. yet it is done
upon scientific principles. Nature
makes the corn. but you must under
stand her doings, and give her the
necessary material with which to
work. The material consists of hard
bottom and plenty of loose soil In
vestigation has proven to me that n
certain amount of moisture rises
through the earth every night. Now
when the land is broken and planted,
the moisture can not rise any higher
than to the depth TO which the
ground is broken, hence. to begin
be planted to corn very deep with n
turning plow. and drop the corn down
on the hard ground. Cover rs deep as
you please, not to exceed six inches
Do not plow your corn until il IL six
inches high, unless II becomes very
foul; then plow as deep as the ground
was broken, no deeper
The other plowings should be fre-
quent and shallow. in order to keep the
surface loose and free from weeds.
Mr. Wellborn is right, so far as corn Is
concerned. at least. when he says roots
will not catch in loose, fresh broken
earth.
30 you see what roots your corn does
have are down in the ground where the
moisture will reach them. and you have
no roots near the surface to be withered
by the scorching rays of King Sol,
thereby injuring the maturity OF your
corn
Do not be afraid of blowing. no mat
ter If the dust covers you, so you do
not pillow too deep. The more you plow
the more open and loose the top soil
will be, and the looser the soil the more
moisture it will absorb from the at
mosphere-
Keep weeds and grass down at all
events IL IS surprising how much one
weed in or near hill Of corn will i'm
raszftsv ha mn - -.
especially Is this the case in time Of
droughts. when your crop needs all the
plant-grOwing elements il can get.
For the same reason that this method
makes corn in dry weather il will also
make il in wet weather; because the
roots OF the corn are down on the hard
ground where these pores carry OF the
surplus Of water from about the roots
no roots will appear except near the
hard ground. when corn Is treated in
this manner
Do not Plow your land too wet: bet
ter not plow at all than plow too wet
and then let the ho, sun pour down
upon it.
In i>oo, cultivated four acres Of n
ffty-aere field (all in eornl. and mad.
more corn than the other fortv-six
acres made This may seem uureasou-
able TO some, hut I an responsible for
what say. and should Only be glad TO
produce any amount Of evidence aeees-
sary. Ny fOur-aere patch was the
wonder of the season The other
forty SIX acres were puiverixed and
the corn Was planted near the surface.
on fine. loose bed. Result very plain
10 a thinking man The season was
very dry aud this corn burnt up in
the hill Again. the same thing was
tried with like results never fall 20
make corn IL 1t comes up and gets fair
" started to growing before the ground
gets dry Many make the mistake Of
plowing corn too young. Ifthe weeds
grow faster than the corn use the
hand hoe-pretty tedious but it saves
oneF.-Southern Farm