Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-03-16

the great benefit to the land from so
large an amount of vegetable matter.
The place of this in the permanent
improvement of land can never be
taken by commercial fertilizer, for
it is absolutely impossible to make
lands rich as long as they are lack
ing in vegetable matter.
Land should be thoroughly and
deeply broken for corn, and this is the
time in a system of rotation to deep
en- the soil. Cotton requires a more
compact soil than corn, and while a
deep soil is essential to its best devel-
opment, it will not produce as well on
loose, open land, while corn does best
on land thoroughly broken. A deep
soil will not only produce more heavi-
ly than a shallow soil with good sea
sons, but it will stand more wet as
well as more dry weather.
In preparing for the corn crop land
should be broken broadcast during the
winter one-fourth deeper than it has
been plowed before, or If much vege-
table matter is being turned under, it
may be broken one-third deeper. This
is as much deepening as land will
usually stand in one year and produce
well. though it may be continued each
year. so long as much dead vegetable
matter is being turned under 1t may,
however, be SUBSIDIZED to any depth by
following in bottom of turn pillow fur
row, provided no more of the subsoil
than has been directed, is turned up.
Break with two-horse pillow if posi-
BILE, OF better with the disc pillow. With
the latter cotton stalks or corn stalks
as large as we ever make, can be
turned under without having been
chopped, and in peavines 1t will not
choke or drag.
Never -plow land when IT is wet. If
You ever expect to have any use for II
again.
Bed with turn pillow In six-foot rows,
leaving five-inch balk. When ready
to plant, break this out with scooter.
following in bottom of the furrow deep
with Dixie pillow, wing taken of.
Ridge then on this furrow with same
pillow still going deep. Run corn plant
er on this ridge. dropping one grain
every five or six inches. Plant early,
as soon as frost danger is past. say
first seasonable spell after March Is,
in this section. Especially is early
planting necessary on very rich lands
where stalks can not otherwise be
prevented from growing too large.
Give first working with harrow or any
pillow 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 eight inch
es high. Thin after this working. 1t
is not necessary that the plants
should be left all the same distance
apart, if the right number remain to
each yard of rows.
Corn should not be worked again
until the growth has been so retard-
ed and the stalk SO hardened that it
will never grow TOO large This is the
most difficult point in the whole pro
cess. Experience and judgment are
required to know just how much the
stalk should be kept back, and plenty
Of nerve is required to hold back your
corn when your neighbors. who fer
tilted at planting time and cultivated
rapidly. have corn twice the size OF
yours. CThey are having their fun
now. Yours will come at harvest
time) The richer the land the more
necessary It is that the retarding pro-
cess should be thoroughly done.
When you are convinced that your