The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-09-12

Mr.. I. n Wiedig, of Forsyth, Ga.
writes as follows in the Southern Guilt
vator:
The Georgia Experiment Station
places the value Of c,rn stalks ia
Georgia at about Isl 500, ,O00) dollars
per year. At least IS per cent. of this
IS wasted by being left In the field to
rot, without materially benc6stiag the
sell as fertilizer, yet very much in
the way while cultivating the crop the
following year While this waste is
going on the poor mans stock is left
almost to perish upon dead grass during
the wlHrcr months and the wealthy
mans cattle feed upon cotton seed hulls
and meal, sometimes to eat timothy
hay, raised, ouled, baled AID shipped
from some other State, the same costing
from $i5 to $40 per ton.
Last September bought su interest
in McCormic Shredder, cut, shocked
and shredded eighteen acres Of corn,
having sufficient TO winter sixteen CO.'S
ald two mules, using no other forage,
besides having to feed COWS through en-
unusually long winter. | wiatereG
four other cows (1ot ny ogD) upon cot.
ton seed hulls and meal ata COS: Of from
81 to 81 80 per month
Comparing cost on the above; half
dozen hands can cut and shock eighteen
acres Of corn io a day. SIX hands
could with difficulty pull fodder from
about cae third as much ground, and
fodder curing is generally accompanied
with a great deal ofrisk. The coro, if
we'll shocked, will not irjurc if rained
upon for tao weeks, fer it should be
shocked as fast as cut.
From The cultivator I see that hoes
are used to cut the eorn. Ny plan IS
TO break the hock from an old scythe
blade, batter down the hook end and
bind with padding for handle. This
will be found to have the right length
aud weight and serves the purpose much
better than hoe, as the corn may ID
this manner De laid 10 straight piles,
and gathered easily for shocking. A
careful hand should start the shock by
| placing two arn-fulls OF the cut corn
together with the butts placed firmly
on the ground and the tops placed
well together. The shock thus started
resemble the letter \. Afterward the
other hands may gather up the corn
lying near and place equally on all sides.
In bottom or very big corn, ladder
Of three or four risers may be used in
order to reach the top to tie securely.
In four to six weeks shocks with two to
three hundred stalks in them will be
ready for the shredding. In case
the shredding cannot be done at
the expiration Of the curing period
three or four shocks at spsll cost may
be mbiued, and then the shredding
may be postponed Indefinitely. The
corn will not injure if the tops are well
pressed together and the shock shaped
to shed the rain.
Be sure the corn is well cured be-
fore shredding, use a good shredder.
q use the Mccormick and iad that it
does more than is claimed for it, With
a Mccormick Machine, run by a six
horse power engine, l shredded from
two to three tons per hour at the small
coast Of 15 cents per ton, including
hauling.
Try shredded corn one year and you
will continue shredling. doubted the
ezpedieDcy (others willy at first but was
convinced that shreddipg is more prof
liable. Tie same amount Cf corn is
heavier than corn harvested in the
usual way from which the fodder has
been pulled. Cattle will fare better
upon it and fatten faster when fed upon
meals and hulls. Am glad The Guilt
vstor is doing so much good in this line.