Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-04
WALHALLA, 81. c.:
A PRIZE NEGRO FARMER.
George R. Shaw, Of Clemson, and Those Like
Him Need Not Fear Lynchlng.


of what the colored farmer can do.
Last spring the Crowell Publish
ing Company, of Springfield, Ohio,
publishers of Farm and Fireside,
offered for the exclusive use of it's
readers three sets of prizes, one of
which was a corn n-growing contest,
as follows: First prize, 800; second,
buggy, valued $50; third, spring
tooth harrow, 800, etc. The object
of the contest was to obtain the
largest possible yield of corn from
one pound of "Fiuest Thoroughbred
Seed Corn" furnished the contest
ants by the publishers. George r..
Shaw, of Clemson College, colored
man, who works at the chemical
laboratory here, and who spends his
spare time farming, won the first
prize, as shown by the following list
of the first five prizes, and their win
ners:
SoNN CoNIE
For raising the greatest weight of
seed corn from one pound of Golden
Harvest Yellow Dent corn furnished
ny US:
First prize, 500 cash, George r..
Shaw, Clemson College, S. c., 1855
pounds.
Second prize, fine piano-box buggy,
value $50, w. A. Kitch, Mercer, Pa,
1890 pounds.
Third prize, latest improved spring
tooth harrow, value $40, Don o..
Baird, Russellville, Ohio, 1,4OO
pounds, 10 ounces.
Fourth prize, set solid leather
buggy harness, valae s15, r. II.
Silvy, Soloman, ILL.,, 1888 pounds, II
ounces.
Fifth prize, latest make breaking
plough, value $40, II. M. Palmer,
Cadiz, Ohio, 1906 pounds, 10 ounces.
The following clipping, from the
Farm and Fireside," will prove of
interest:
HOW THE RESULTS WERE SECURED.
"I planted the corn in two plots:
Plot No. 1.-The soil was second
branch bottom, brown clay subsoil,
on path leading from Calhoun to
Clemson College, situated in Pickens
county, S. @. This plot was sowed
with oats in October, 1901, the oats
being killed by the winter frosts.
During March, 1902, this plot was
narrowed and cross narrowed with
one-horse, 14-tooth steel harrow.
April 26 it was ploughed about six
inches deep with diamond-pointed
gopher on an iron foot stock. April
%, rebroke this plot with Boy Dixie,
about eight inches deep. April 20,
narrowed and cross narrowed with
one-horse harrow, and marked off
rows in checks four feet each way.
April 80, planted $50 hills, one grain
to each. Dropped corn by hand, one
kernel in each check, putting one
handful of stable manure on each
side of the checks, and dropping one
thimbleful of high. grade acid phos-
phate to every hill, covering corn
and manure with rakes. Seven days
after planting i raked over every
hill, to facilitate an even stand and
make dust-mulch for the corn to
retain the moisture. In ten days
after planting l had 697 hills of corn.
In the meantime corn was ploughed
twice with one-horse, five. plough
ouitivator. Hoed it twice with iron
tooth rake. Ploughed second time
June 6. Ploughed third time June
81, and fourth and last time July 2,
both times with heel scrape and
gopher. Hoed July Is. This was
the last work done on Plot No. l..
August Is there was on Plot No.
/ 697 stalks with one to three ears
to the stalk. On August 20 corn
was well matured and ripe, and
stripped the fodder off. Plot No. 2
Land located on Seneca river, sit.
uated in Pickens county, one mile
from Clemson College. Color of
land dark, sandy loan. Was planted
in corn and peas in 1901, subject to
overflow at high water. May g.,
broke soil with half-shovel as deep
as one horse could pull it. May IS,
marked off rows four feet apart, and
bedded with Boy Dixie. Opened
beds with half-shovel Planted 679
kernels of corn, dropping corn by
hand, and putting one kernel in a
place, about two feet apart in the
drill. Covered with two furrows,
using an iron-foot plough with
gopher plough. After finishing the
planting then ran over the ridges
that were made by the two burrows,
covering the corn with board, that
knocked off all clods, making the
beds where corn was perfectly