The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-05


 cry farmer to grow his seed corn. Ir selecting from indiscrimlnate crosses oi | the seed from various individual ears of particular kind. variety or type of corn, that the type you wish to grow | may he desirable 1t is advisable to per petu. te the purity of your corn, re- tafning and establishing certain valu- able traits and doing away with un- desirable ones by individual selections The best way. as followed in the West ] Is to prepare seed bed or testing ground of from one to two acres far removed from other fields. To begin | with, no ear should be used which is imperfect from which to select grains for the seed crop. selecting such type of corn that you wish to grow. the work of selection should be followed year after year. selecting the best ears l that show an improvement over previ- ous years. Any plant that is deficient , in any requirement. should not be all l lowed to develp a tasSel and especially | a barren stalk.
 As to corn feeding, the seed plots should not suffer for want of plant food. From field experiments with fertilizers on corn in the west last year. on soils of average fertility, a | higher per cent of potash than ordin- ary fertilizer contain give remarkable results and would undoubtedly give similar results on the average lands | of Georgia. CD There was used In Georgia last year more fertilizers with | corn than was ever used in years be- fore. and with proper fertilizers and more attention to the selection of seed, and intensive culture, there is no doubt or reason why the average yield of well-bred corn should not be increas- ed in the south and especially Georgia. -C. w. Morrill, in Farm and Ranch. Small Grain Growing as a Side Line for Southern Farmers.
 The farmer who has a good large barn, grain house. corn crib and smoke house all we'll filled as winter comes on may well count himself lucky. There IS nothing else so sure to invite peace and plenty and there is nothing else that will do even as much towards making the farmer prosperous regard less Of the price of cotton. You may be Of the number who will say: The above sounds nice for talk and reads well enough. hut it cannot work out in practice. If you place yourself with in the class of "doubting Thomases" we want you to go into a quiet cor ner all by yourself and spend an hour or two in serious thought upon this matter. Just be honest with all par t1es Treat self. wife, children, hands and tenants all in a perfectly fair man. ner. Then if you are not satisfied that you are under obligations to your fam lily to make at least one effort to fill barn, granary. corn crib and smoke house you may then be excused for con- tinuing in the old way
 We hava been writing for the South ern man who keeps his supply house in the West. We now have somewhat to write unto the one who has already or Is about to break loose from that bondage of Western domination and Is about to set up his own throne of in- dependence.
 Let us consider the small grain crops and how they may be produced and utilized to best advantage, The wise farmer is never cultivating piece of land or field for the good of the present crop alone but he so plans and arranges his work and crops that while he Is cultivating for the good of crop now occupying the soil he is also putting that soil in better condition for the next crop it may be called upon to bear. If this statement be true it must of necessity follow that great portion of the working given the ploughed and hood crops of the summer should go also toward preparing for small grain crops that are to be planted in the fall or early spring. The best time to prepare the hCiuS lVi WHCdl anu oats IS rom March to September while the best time for sowing these crops is from September 20 to the middle of November or in some cases even as late as Devember This feature of the work will be de- termined to great extent by latitude and elevation above sea level An i'm portant point is to get the plants well established before cold weather comes on to stop growth and not have them far enough advanced to endanger seri- ous losses from late spring frosts
 Best Time for Planting.
 The ground should be well covered by the stooling plants before freezing weather. otherwise the more tender plants will be killed. The growth should not be far enough along to cause the plants to throw ur stems or joint out before the last frosts of spring have gone Wheat should not be sown until there has been enough cool weather to check the deyelou- ment of the Hessian fly and his larvae Generally two or three good frosts will accomplish this. As we go northward sowing should be earlier. As we reach greater attitudes sowing should be earlier also.
 On soils of ordinary productiveness there is no better crop than peas to precede either wheat or oats. We may also reverse the proposition and say that there are no better crops with which to precede peas than wheat and oats. Good prepartion for one set of these crops is also the very best pre- liminary treatment for the other This combination of crops if persisted in for a few years will result in doubling the productive capacity of the greater number of farms
 Let us now take the last summers pea stubble and prepare it for wheat or oats because there need be no very great difference in the preparation for these crops. Assuming that the ground was properly prepared for peas, that a good crop of vines was produced ana removed either as green forage or cured hay. Ten days two weeks before time to SOW small grain go to the field with a good stout team and q rather heavy disc or cutaway harrow set to cut and pulverize the surface to depth of three to four inches or If possible a little deeper. Ii may he necessary to go over the field two or in some cases even three times to in sure a good joh. If 1t seems Ukt vast ing time and energy to do an this for grain crop. leave d strip through the field with only half the prescribed