The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-01-17


This method steadily increased the
yield until year before last Q904) with
corn IL inches apart in SIX foot rows
and $l1 worth of fertilizer to the acre.
made "a bushels average to the acre,
several OF my best acres making as
much as 125 bushels.
Last year( 19O5) followed the same
method planting the first week in April
10 acres which had produced the year
before 1000 pounds seed cotton per acre.
This land is sandy upland, somewhat
rolling Seasons were very unfavor
able, owing To the tremendous rains in
May and the dry and extremely hot
weather later. From June II to July IL
the time when 1t most needed moisture,
there was only five-eights of an inch OF
rainfall here; yet with 81 81 cost of
fertilizer, my yield was 81 bushels per
acre. Rows were six feet and corn 16
iuches in drill.
''With this method on land that will
ordinarily produce 1000 pounds-of seed
cotton with 800 pounds of fertilizer, 81
bushels of corn per acre should be made
by using 200 pounds of cotton seed
meal, 2O0p unds of acid phosphate and
loo ounds of kanit mixed. or their
equivalent in other fertilizers, and l25
pounds of nitrate of soda, all to be used
as side application as directed below.
son laud that will make bale and
hol of 0ntfOV, V1sr o..K- hon roI
fertilized, hundred bushels of corn
should be produced by doubling the
mount of fertilizer above, except that
300 pounds of nitrate of soda should be
used.
''Tn each case there should be left on
the land in corn stalks peas, vines and
roots, from $12to $I6 worth of fertilizers
material per acre. besides the great
benefit to the land from so large 40
amount of vegetable matter. The place
of this in the permanent improvement
of land can never be taken by CONNER
cial fertilizer, for il is absolutely i'm
possible 20 make lands rich as long a ;
they are lAckin2 in vegetable matter.
Land should be thoroughly and deep
broken for corn, and this is the time
in. u system of rotation TO deepen the
soil. Cotton requires a more compact
Ill than corn and while deep soil is
essential to its best developments, it will
not produce as we'll on loose open land,
while corn oOes best on land thoroughly
broken. deep soil will not only pro-
duce more heavily than q shall leSY soil
with good seasons, but II will stand
more wet as we'll as more drv weather.
In preparing for the corn crop, iandl
should be broken broadcast during the
winter one-fOurth deeper than it has been
plowed before. or if much vegetable
matter isibeing turned under, it may be
broken One-third deeper. This is as
much deepening as land will usually
stand in one year and produce we'll,
though it may be continued each year,
- loug as much dead vegetable matter
is being turned under. 1t may however
be subsoiled to any depth by following
in bottom of turn pillow furrOw pro
vided no more of the suhsoil than has
been directed is turned up. Break with
two horse plow if possible, or better.
with disc plow. With the latter cot
| Ton stalks or corn stalks as large as
we ever make can be turned under
| without having been chopped, and in
pea vines 1T will not choke or drag.
Never plow land when it is wet, if you
expect ever TO have any use r it again.
''Bed with turn plow in six-fOot rows,
| leaving five inch balk. When ready to
plant, break this out with scooter,
following In bottom of this furrow d, eJ
ssL
then on this furrOw with same plow
still going deep. Run corn planter on
| this ridge, dropping one grain every
| i've or six inches. Plant early, as soon
as frost danger is past, say first season
able spell after March 18th, in this Sec
GiOu. Especially is early, planting
necessary on very rich lands where
stalks cannot otherwise, be prevented
from growing too large. Give first work
| ing with harrow or any plow that will
not cover the plant. For second work
ing, use ten or twelve-inch sweep on both
SIDES of corn, which should now be
about eight inches high. Thin after
this working. It 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
1
and the stalk SO hardened that it will
never grow to large. This is the most
difficult point in the whole process.
| Experience aud judgement are required
| TO know just how much the stalk ShOu
be stunted, and plenty of nerve is re-
quired to hold back your corn whec
your neighbors, who fertilized 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 Iand
the more necessary it is that the stunting
process should be Thoroughly done.
"When you are convinced that your
corn has been sufficiently Fumiliated,
you may begin to make the ear. 1t
should pow be from II To Is inches high,
and look worse than you have ever
had any corn to look before.
s'Put half your mixed fertilizer this
being the first used 81 ally 10 the ola
sweep furrow on both sides of every
i other middle, aud cover by breaking