The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-23
GuiIermo Scd on Stuntin Corn.
Jan. 20. 1907.

Jan. ~. 1907.
Dear Gents
Several months ego the Press and Banner
had q long pieca about sluntin corn III IT, II
the M me- article was u request lot e8pelf
ments along The line AID a report vi the
Same.
cp,meiubur, by n mun name WILLIAMSON.
li>in here he,u Plum BraDcn.
It's not'necesssIy for me to 60 INTO per.icu-
Iers about the plan. every body understands
IT,. The general outline OF the plan is sum
thin IKE this: Pant the corn Just IKE you
Intended TO rbze q CROP just IKE you nau
nothin agin II b all, toll IL along jest IKE you
elIus do AN about the time the corn tulnRH
YOU are o. K. and begins TO show some con
fdence In your farmlp sbllltles, tnen kGoch
it square,. smack. dab. In Tue mead Will d
broad AK.
Them's the salient polnts VI Zig Piopo'f-
ton. a,s =, 10.
Won must turn your back on IL an let the
weeds take IL. II the corn shrivels up an
turns blue J GU must grit your teeth an make
out lfke you don't give rip ior corr no now.
nerve, Then go tishin. When Tue crab grass
LOOKS LIE It's goin To carpet The whole nsi III
eat The corn up and make enui grass SEED 10
SOW all the lal.d on IDA moon An setd ina
pc. ticu Ter fel Tor forty generations, just max.
out ike you love crab grass az we'll ns coin az
turn your back. You mnstnt 90 sonut Tue
corn until lis nearly dead. graspirg iI
breath, Ia, Tho
swan , o ~. just before IT dies dead as d n-r
ring you must take @ lock at IT,. You must
think how mean you've treated that coru
Won must let your sympaLhies we'll up IN you
for the pore spindly stuff. You must think oil
how its worked and Wlggle4 asaInss tne s Somr
and weeds 10 keep alive. You must gtt your
feelins ali worked up to the hishest pllch oI
fever heat IN sy patty for the pore corn ~
then, well you must 20 at hat corn NE tnt
yorl WAS out OF seed an every SEED Woulo OF
worth tour dollars a grain next year. You
viii have to pretend how sorry. you are thai
the corn has got into such q hx, ana your
have TO coddle II an pet IL an encourage ~ DO
feed 1t with q spooo, an manure IT an ploug,.
IL an hoe 1t an harrow 1t I'D beg II an coox IL
an walt on II like you would q political JOB.
Alter while the corn begins to think tnat
II was all a mistake and tsat you thlhk Il.
much of 1t NJ you do OF the crab grass. an
presently she begins 10 grow. Then theres y
half a pound OF fertlilzer aha al solesS
little spindly stalk, but, 10! tneres no pIact
for It to go. The stalk has hardened an, CROWD
tough an ssn al g ;S1s any SoyId mor ma,e aieie to 90 Sn aS
that's. into the year, and MO the year sne
goes. 49,. uu.
after row of little spill dl.y stalks DO b,ggern
your little tiDger an eacn one holdln q year
q yard long an four Inches in diameter. There
they STAND like three year 0lds trylpg 70 carry
q SACK of corn. Each stslk bending double
With It's load OF corn reminding you OF Jack
and Gill an the pail OF water.
This 10 the plan in the main.
The great wunder Is somebody naodent
discovered this before. The worp Is Dix
Lhousau' years ole an nobody iound LOIS
thing out until Williamson started TO farm
in below Plum Branch.
The next news you know some enterprlsln'
anthropologist will be followin' Williams.
toms plan IN maxim men! len see the arti.
ole now, standin' out In bold BLACK letters al
Make Brains, Not Drawn! The great.
est discovery OF the age! Would you rae
you're son to be q thinker9 Then. stunt i'm.
Stunt i'm good an hard when he Is young
and when you have stunted him about rlght
feed him until You give bin dyspepsia, indi-
gestion, gastreatis, apendiseetis, an ,perryti.
neetis an II be gets over II he'll be all brain
Take that immitable scholar and editor.
Kernel Bacon OF Edgefeld. He was stunted
when he was q boy an see the result All
brain deer freps, ell brain. Take Tor exam
weighs ninety odd pounds an his brain
weighs l6 ounces! He was stunted when ne
was q chile an the result Is evident Napo,
leon Bonypart was about hve teet nign az,
so big he wore q plumber 8 hat! He. too, was
stunned when he was a kid,-an' In ole france
no man had the everlastin' political pull that
In the near future When you send Your six
year old chile TO schdbl the teacher VIII drap
You q note kindly rtquestin' WHICH course
astraight," an then you're trouble will begin
ifyou prefer the stunt" the maoam VIII
want the "straieht," an II you ike the
straight better, the msdam Will Insist on Inc
stunt, 30 there yonll &c.
Some seem to get along toleraole we'll with
out bein' stunted, but the majority OF my
acquaintanees need to be stunIed. rake One
deacon Smith for instance: The ole deacon
stands six foot four inches IN bis SOCKS an
weighs two hundred pounds, an II bis oralp
wus all ink It wuddent dot q l. Such fellers
ought to be stunted by all means. They tSse
up too much room as they are an'besides tnat
they Amt got en- Of sense TO read a animal A,
B, y, book.
Stunt such fellerkP Certainly, stunt 'em,
by all means, stunt 'em good an hard 40
they'll take up less room and have more
sense. ... .
To revert to the experiment on my corn
beg leaf TO tender you the unhappy inlorma-
lion that my corn didn't get big enuf TO
stunt. 1t was stunted from the start ano
stunted in the. end. 1t come up stunted an
died stunted.
Yourn,
Guilermu Sed.