The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-02-21

this working. 1t is not necessary that
the plants should be left all the same
distance apart, if the right number re-
main to each yard of row.
Corn should not be worked again UNI
til the growth has been so retarded
and the stalk so hardened that it will
never grow too large. This is the most
difficult point in the whole process. Elk
perience and judgment are required to
know just how much the stalk should
be stunted, and plenty of nerve is re-
quired to hold back your corn when
your neighbors, who fortified at plant
ing time and cultivated rapidly, have
corn twice the size of yours. (They
are having their fun now. Yours will
come at harvest time.) The richer the
land the more necessary it is that the
stunning process should be thoroughly
done.
When you are convinced that your
| corn has been sufficiently Hated,
you may begin to make 1t
should be from IL to 10 sh,
and look worse than you eve any
corn to look before.
Put half your mixed fertilizer (this
being the first used at ally in the old
sweep furrow on both sides of every
other middle, and cover by breaking
out this middle with turn pillow. About
one week later treat the other middle
the same way. Within a few days side
corn in first middle with 16-inch sys-
tenn. Put all your nitrate of soda in
this furrow, if less than $50 pounds. If
more, use one-half of it now. Cover
with one furrow of turn pillow, then sow
peas in this middle broadcast at the
rate of at least one bushel to the acre,
and finish breaking out.
In a few days side corn in other mid
die with same sweep, put balance of
soda in this furrow if it has been di-
vided, cover with turn pillow, SOW peas
and break out. This lays by your crop
with a good bed and plenty of dirt
around your stalk. This should be from
June 10th to Goth unless season is very
late, and corn should be hardly bunch
ing for tassel. A
Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late blowing than by lack of plow-
ing. This is when the ear is hurt. Two
good rains after laying by should make
you a good crop of corn, and it will
certainly make with much less rain if
pushed and fortified in the same old
way.
The stalks thus raised are very small,
and do not require anything like the
moisture, even in proportion to size,
that is necessary for large supply
stalks. They may, therefore, be left
much thicker in the row. This is no
new process. 1t has long been a GUS
tom to cut back vines and trees in or
der to increase the yield and quality of
fruit, and so long as you do not hold
back your corn, it will go, like mine so
long went, to all stalk.
Do not be discouraged by the looks
of your corn during the process of cul-
tivation. 1t will yield out of all pro-
portion to its appearance. Large stalks
cannot make large yields, except with
extremely favorable seasons, for they
cannot stand a lack of moisture. Early
applications of manur go to make
large stalks which you do not want,
and the plant food is all thus used up
before the ear, which you do want is
made. Tall stalks not only will not pro-
duce we'll themselves, but will not al
low you to make the pea vines, so ne
cessary to the improvement of land.
Corn raised by this method should
never grow over seven and half feet
high and the ear should be near to the
ground.
l consider the final application of nj
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