Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-01

corn when your. neighbors, who FER
tilized at planting time and cultivated
rapidly. have corn twice the size oi
yours. (They are having their fur
now. Yours will come, at harvest
time.) The richer the land the more
necessary 1t is that the retarding pro-
cess should be thoroughly done.
When you are convinced that your
corn has been sufficiently humiliated
YOU may begin to make the ear. II
should now be from twelve to eighteen
inches high. and look worse than you
have ever had any corn to look before
Put half your mixed fertilizer (this
heing the first used at alD In the old
sweep furrow on both sides Of every
other middle, and cover by breaking
out this middle with turn plow. About
one week later treat the other middle
the same way. Within few days side
corn in first middle with sixteen-inch
sweep. Put all your nitrate Of soda In
this furrow, II less than $50 pounds,
n more, use one half of 1t. Cover with
one furrow Of turn plow, then SOW
meas 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
middle with same sweep. put balance
+ nitrate Of soda In this furrow IL 1t
has been divided, cover with turn
plow, SOW peas, and break out. This
lays by your crop with good bed and
plenty Of dirt around your stalk. This
should be from June 10 to 20, unless
season is very late, and corn should be
hardly punching for tassel.
Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late blowing than by lack Of plow-
ing. This Is when the corn is hurt.
Two good rains after laying by should
make you good, crop Of corn, and 1t
will certainly make with much less
rain than II pushed and fertilized in
the 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, sappy
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, 1t will go, like mine so
long went, all to 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
can not make large yields. except with
extremely favorable seasons, for they
can not stand lack Of moisture. Ear
ly applications Of manure go to make
large stalks. which you do not want,
and the plant food Is all thus used Up
before the ear. which you want, Is
made. Tall stalks. not only will not
produce we'll themselves, but will not
allow to make the peavines. 80 neces-
sary 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.
I consider the final application OF
nitrate Of soda an essential point In
this ear making process. 1t should be
always applied attlast blowing and un7
mixed with other fertilizers.
am satisfied with one ear to the
stalk, unless a prolific variety is plant
ed and leave hundred stalks for every
bushel that I expect to make. / find
the six-foot row easiest to cultivate
without injuring the corn. For fifty
bushels to the acre, I leave 1t sixteen
inches apart; for seventy-five bushels
to the acre, twelve inches apart, and
for one hundred bushels eight inches
apart. Corn should be planted from
four to six inches below the level, and
laid by from four. to six inches above
No hoeing should be necessary, and
middles may be kept clean until time
to break out. by using harrow or by
running one shovel furrow in center OF
middle and bedding on that, with one
or more rounds OF turn plow.
/ would advise only few acres trieo
by this method the first year, or until
you are familiar with its application
Especially is It hard, at first, to fully
carry out the stunting process, where
whole crop is involved, and this Is the
absolutely essential part Of the pro-
cess.
This method I have applied or seer
applied. successfully, to all kinds OF
land in the section except wet lands
and moist bottoms. and am confident
1t can be made Of great benefit
throughout the entire south.
In the middle west, where corn IL
prolific and profitable, and where, un-
fortunately for US, so much OF ours
has been produced, the stalk does. moi
naturally grow large. AS we come
south It's size increases, at the expense
Of the ear. until in Cuba and Mexico
1t is nearly all stalk (witness Mexican
yarieties.)
The purpose of this method Is tc
eliminate this tendency Of corn tc
overgrowth at the expense Of yield, ir
this southern climate.
BY this method have made my
corn crop more profitable than my cot
ton crop, and my neighbors ano
friends who have adopted 1t, have
without exception. derived great bene-
fit therefrom.
Plant your own seed. I would no'
advise a change of seed and methoe
the same year, as you will not ther
know from which you have derived
the benefit. l have used three vare'
ties, and all have done we'll. have
never used this method for late plant
ing. in fact, do not advise the late
planting Of corn, unless 1t be necessary
for cold lOwlands.
The increased cost Of labor and thu
high price Of material and land, art
rapidly making farming unprofitabl'
except to those who are getting fro
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