The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-12-06
Tell How They Raised Prize Corn.

The winners of the three corn prizes
offered by the corn clubs of the north
east part of the county have made the
following report Of how they raised the
prize corn.
The prizes were awarded by a com
mittee as follows:
First prize $50, to John b. Calhoun,
of near Leroy, he growing 179 bushels
and 60 pounds on two acres lacking but
) pounds of making 90 bushels per acre
Second prize $50, to Fred Bowman,
of near Garden Grove, on 1872 bushels
and 20 pounds making 81 bushels and 10
pounds per acre.
Third prize $50 to Ralph Baker,
southwest of Garden Grove, his corn
making 15l bushels and 30 pounds, be-
ing 10 bushels and 80 pounds per acre.
AS the 500 prize money is not quite
made up We will ask all members of the
Clubs that have not paid their dues for
| 1906 to please see the secretaries of the
Clubs SO that the prizes can be paid in
full by Jan. LIST, 1907. By COMMITTEE.
STATEMENT OF JOIN CALHOUN.
The ground was an old pasture, had
been in pasture 20 years and was plow-
ed last fall about five inches deep laying
it as fiat as could be done with a stir
ring plow. About the last of April it
was disced and narrowed the way it
was plowed then narrowed and disced
across. 1t was narrowed again and
planted May 9TH with light yellow
corn that have grown for twenty years
but do not know any name for it. 1t
was planted with an edge drop planter,
three kernels to the hill. When the
corn came up plowed it four times,
three times the way it was planted and
once across using six shovel John
Deere riding cultivator. The two acres
was part of "a acre field that averaged
80 bushels to the acre.
i STATEMENT OF FRED BOWMAN.
The two acres of corn that measur-
ed and weighed was selected from 2(
acre field that was timothy and clover
meadow and was plowed in the fall Of
1905 to depth of about six inches. Ir
preparing the ground disc harrow was
used tapping it half, it was then harrow
ed twice with steel tooth harrow
weighted. l planted the Improved
Lanning corn on the 18th of May using
an edge drop planter dropping from
three to four kernels in hill, about two
inches deep. 1t was given three cult
yations with six shovel pillow the frs
/ cultivation was three to four inches
deep and close to the corn. The SECOND
was not over three inches deep and no
so close to the corn and the third cult
walton was as far from the corn as
could, the inside shovels very shallow
o The 20 acres that the two acres was il
averaged Is bushels.
STATEMENT or RALPH BAKER.
The two acres that | measured and
weighed the corn from was mostly in
slough that was broken from raw
prairie in March, 1905, and planted t,
$ corn, but was too wet. The corn wa
3 gathered early, the stalks taken off ant
) the ground plowed in October, 1905. Ii
preparing the ground this spring w
disced it twice and narrowed it twic,
S with steel tooth harrow, once befor
and once after planting. The cor
planted was Chester's Lanning on tn
i 18th of May with an edge drop plante
i dropping one kernel in place as nea
. as the planter would drop, u to l
q inches apart. 1t was cultivated fou
" times with six shovel riding cultiva
. tor. We were in the dry streak and
. do not think we had an inch of rain frol
s the 25th of July until the corn was ripe
o but had a fairly good dust mulch whicl
s think, conserved the moisture.