Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-13

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S0UTR'S PRIZE CORN CROP
Good Farmer in South Carolina Raises
2O2 Bushels Per Acre and Wins $500.
A j. TINDAI4, of Clarendon coun-
~ ty, South Carolina, last year
raised what is claimed to be
the largest crop in the United States.
winning the $500 prize in the Amet-
lean contest and also the first prize
offered by the legislature of his state
given as an judgement for the farm
ers to enter into the competition.
President Nell, of the Clemson Agri-
cultural College, writes that Mr.. Tin
dial was a member of the first class
sent out by the college, and the result
of his work shows, therefore, the i'm
portance Of farm education.
Mr.. Tindal has kindly prepared for
our readers an account of the meth
DDS employed by him in raising this
enormous crop. He writes:
My prize acre was selected in a
very fertile bottom, we'll drained, but
naturally moist. The top soil, about
two feet deep. is a very dark chocolate
color, we'll charged with humus, but
sticky and required much labor to
pulverize. The subsoil is mixed sand
and pipe clay.
The land has been rotated in the
following way: 1908. cotton, yield
600 pounds lint; 1904, corn and peas,
yield 1872 bushels corn and ninety
one bushels peas; 1905, cotton, 1,610
pounds lint; 1906. corn, 1872 bushels
officially allowed, actual yield 202.41:
1907, to be planted in cotton.
In 1908, 1904 and 1905 fertilizers
were applied to amounts varying from
81 to $12 worth per acre each year.
Early in April, 1906, the land was
broken flush with two-horse plows
and two-horse subsoil plows run in
every turn pillow furrow The land
was then thoroughly narrowed with
spring-tooth and smoothing harrows.
A second and deeper breaking was
made Immediately with the turn plows
and subscribers; the land being broken
Ito depth exceeding twenty inches.
Then the harrows were again used to
llloI ouSilS poiSCllSC Lie ooii anu pot
in "hot-bed" condition.
Two or three weeks later, on May Z,
the acre was again thoroughly har-
rowed then laid off with shovel
pillow in rows two and three-fourths
feet wide and the seed was sown in
the lay-off furrow, about an inch
apart, to insure stand.
The seed was covered by running a
large shovel-plow in the middle of
the rows. This covered the seed and
left a furrow to receive the fertilizers.
applied in the following amounts and
kinds:
500 lbs. c. s. meal analysis 81
l-1).
500 lbs Peruvian analysis So
| s 1-3-2).
500 lbs. high grade guano (analysis
S-4-).
After the application of this fer
Itilizer in the middles the harrows were
run across the land and left level and
smooth. and no trace of the rows
could then be found until the corn
came up.
Just as the corn began to appear q
weeder was used. About three weeks
after planting it was thinned by hand
to about six inches in the drill and all
weeds, ETC., removed. Immediately
following the thinning, the corn was
cultivated with sixteen-inch sweeps
about one inch deep.
About five weeks after planting, the
sixteen-inch sweeps were again used
to cultivate about one inch deep, and
with this second cultivation the corn
was laid by.
The latter part of June 400 pounds
| of nitrate of soda was used as top
dressing, making a total amount OF
1000 pounds of fertilizers, costing
s32.45.
The total cost of the acre of corn
including everything, was $56.55.
The variety of corn used was E
hybrid Marlboro Prolific. / have beer
trying since 1901 to breed a corn witt
the prolific tendency of Marlboro Pro
life, but with a purer white color. {
deeper grain and larger ears. Have
met with considerable success ant
have developed a corn very similar IL
appearance and standard to iowa Sill
yer Nine" but somewhat move pro
life.
/ have no planting seed for sale o
distribution on hand.
\ The bulk of my corn crop is planted
lin three and one-half foot rows an,
lleft about one and one-fourth to on
and one-half feet in the drill, which
with 500 pounds of fertilizers per acr
average about seventy-fve to eight
bushels. Where I select my planting
seed 1t is left three and one-half b
two feet, and only seed from special
1 selected ideal ears from ideal stalk
is used. A. j. TINDALL.
Il Manning, S. c..
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