Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-09

The question u corn ,,rowIng is o
live one Just now. We would nppreci.
ata letters on corn growing. oat grow
ing and such like subjects.
The premium corn grower OF Texas
tells us this week how Il was done'
In reply to yours of recent date MAX
ing some Inquiries regarding the Avery
corn contest. There are great many
things to be observed In growing corn.
A man must have a rule In all his un-
dertakinFs. The carpenter has a rule
The merchant rule; in fact all pro-
fessional men have rule, and farming
Is n professional business. So each and
every farmer should adopt some rule
The day has now come where we must
devise some means by which to grow
more to the acre than we have In the
past. / have asked man after man
how many stalks OF corn should be
grown on an acre? and they could not
answer The north manufactures tools
and we people wear them out, ana
never stop to think whether they are
what we need or not. Our check rows
are not what we need, and l shall
prove 1t In the end. My prize acre
turned my land deep in August ana
let II lay till In March, then narrowed
and brushcd the land planted my
corn April 3. plowed my corn the Two
first times with four horses TO a RID
ing cultivator, and l plowed deep down.
The third time. not so deep and not so
close to the corn. The fourth time,
very shallow and stu away from mo
corn, leaving my ground as near leVeI
rs possible. ! used no fertilizer AZ ali
/ grew strawberry corn. / cultivated
my corn every eight or ten DAYS, Wneh
not kept out by rain. My lana was
black waxey soil. grew 5000 stalks OF
corn on my acre or thereabouts. from
which | gathered about 70 or SO bushels
Of corn. Each and every ear was
good one. There being no small ones
Five thousand stalks OF corn Is a prop
or stand in Texas, on this black waNy
land. Will take my corn three rect
each way one stalk In the hill for ten
wears and beat any other rule Tor
stand. that gives me 4S4O stalks per
acre. II It Is a dry year each stalh
viii hear a good ear: " a wet year enen
stalk will bear two good ears. 80 II
take 4S40 stalks and get there al tne
same. some will say three rect siS
,nches nv three feet three inches and
let The planter drop from two to three
Grains and never thin any. Such stahu
NAV grow COW feed but not good corn.
THE whole thing Is; Select goou souhu
seed well matured with req COZ,
never plant corn with a Wnlte GU
Corn needs to be worked TIL IL oesihs
Ia tassel II you can keep IL WORKED
aieng wet before your last working, DC
moi work IT the last time. l expert,
mented some In the way last year. ano
you could tell right TO row Where
( n,owed after letting II lay three OF
four weeks or account OF rain; ! grew
a Yellow corn las, year. ] believe u te
be the finest corn In Texas. ! am con,
Gdent II win out weigh any other corn
he same size. Corn Is like everything
Else II will eventually run out. Corn
should be changed every few ,,'a,,s,d e
g." Certain corn Is adapted TO GER
Tain soils, and we should look aftei
those things IL successful, II any on IN,
reading this that has Home n ana II ha'a y,
Nav 1. 1896, and will mail II to me
viii viii pay you at once 50 cents. l WI
forward you the SO cents by return n,,n
FOR the above numbers mentioned. Sus
eesS " W. p. HUNT.
Cellna. Tex.