The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1907-02-08

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With the latter, cotton stalks or corn
stalks as large as we ever make can
be turned under without having been
chopped, and in pea vines it will not
choke or drag.
Never plow, land when. it is wet, if
you'expect~ ever to have any use for
S3,anain.
eed with turn plow in six foot rows.
ieavine>hve inch balk When ready to
plant, break this out with scooter, iol-
lowing in bottom of this fursow deep
with Dixie plow, wing taken off.
Ridge then on this furrow with same
piow, still going deeper. Run corn
planter on this ridge, dropping one
gram every five or six inches. Plant
early, as soon as frost danger is past,
say hrst seaSonable spell after March
18th, III this section. Especially is
early planting necessary on very rich
lands where stalks cannot otherwise
be prevented from growing too large.
Give first working with harrow or anv
plow that will not cover the plant
For second working use ten or twelve
inch sweep on both sides OF corn.
which should now be about o--trvfrvy-
high. Thin alter this working. 1t is
hot necessary that the plants should
he LETT all the same distance apart, il
,he right number remain to each yard
of row.
Corn should not be worked again
until growth has been so retarded, and
the stalk so hardened, that it will never
grow too large. This is the MOST
DIFFICULTY POINT in the whole
process. Experience and judgment
are required to know just how much
the stalk should be stuntcd. and
PLENTY OF NERVE is required TO
hold back your corn when your neigh
boTs. who icrtilzed at planting time
and cultivated rapidly, have corn twice
t-s size OF voarS (They are having
their FUN now; yours WIFI como rr
harvest timc.) The richer the land
the ny re necessary it is that the stunt
ing p occSs should be thoroughly
deNc !
When you are convinced that your
corn has been sufficiently Inundated,
you may begin to make the ear. 1t
Shenld now be from twelve to eighteen
inches high, and look worse than YOU
have ever had any corn to look before.
Fnt hall your mixed fertilizer (this
beinS the first used at alD in the old
sweep turrow on both sides OF every
middle, and cover with turn plow.
About one week later treat the other
middle the same way. Within few
days SIDE corn in first middle with SIX
teen inch sweep. Pit all your nitrate
OF soda in this furrow, if less than 20
pounds. IT more, use one-hali OF it
now. Cover with one iurrow OF turn
piow, then sow peas in this middle
broadcast at the rate oi at least one
bushel to the acre, and iinish breaking
out
In few days side corn the other
ihiddIc with same sweep; put balance
oi nitrate "i soda in this furrow if il
has been divided. cover with turn Dlow
sow peas, and break out. This laws
by your crop with a good bed and
plenty OF dirt around your stalk. This
should be from June 10th TO Goth. nm
less season is very late, and corn
should be hardly bHnching for tassel
Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late plowing than by lack OF plow
ing. This is when the ear is hurt.
Two good rains after laying bv should
make you good crop oi corn, and it
Will certainly make with much less
rain than il pushed and iertiizcd lin
the old way.
The stalks thus raised are verv small
and do not require anything like the
moisture even in proportion to size
that is necessary for large, sappv
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
iruit, and so long as you do not HOLD
back your corn, it will go, like mine
SO long went, all to stalk.
Do not be discouraged by the looks
OF your corn during the process of
cultivation. 1t will yield out of all pro-
portion TO its appearance. Large
stalks cannot make large yields, ex-
cept with extremely favorable seasons.
for they cannot stand lack OF mois-
ture. Early applications OF manure go
to make large stalks, which you do not
want. and the plant food is all th,.s