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

corn has been sufficiently Inundated,
you may begin to make the ear 1t
should now be from twelve TO eight
cen inches high, and look worse than
you have ever had any corn TO look
before.
Put half your mixed fertilizer Cthis
being the first used at ALL in the old
sweep furrow on both sides of every
other middle. and cover by breaking
out this middle with turn pillow. About
one week later treat the other middle
the same way. Within a few days
side corn in first middle with sixteen
inch sweep. Put all your nitrate OF
soda in this furrow. If less than $50
pounds If more, use one-half of it.
Cover with one furrow of turn pillow.
then SOW peas in this middle broad
cast 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
of nitrate of soda in this furrow IL il
has been divided, cover with turn
pillow. SOW peas. and break ont. This
lays by your crop with a 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 to 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 a good crop of corn. and it
will certainly make with much less
rain than if pushed and fortified 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
custom to cut back vines and trees
in order to increase the yield and quail
ity of fruit, and so long as you do not
hold back your corn. it viii 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. It will yield out of all pro-
portion to its appearance. Large
stalks can not make large yields, ex-
cept with extremely favorable sea
sons. for they can not stand lack Of
moisture Early applications of man.
ure 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 win not produce we'll them
selves, but will not allow to make the
peavines, so necessary to the i'm
provement Of land. Corn raised by
this method should never grow over
-eveu and half feet nigh, aGinumri
ear should be near to the ground.
] consider the final application of
nitrate Of soda an essential point in
this ear-making process. 1t should be
always applied at last blowing and I'M
mixed with other fertilizers.
am satisfied with one ear to the
stalk, unless a prolific variety is
planted and leave a hundred stalks for
every bushel that l expect to make.
find the six-foot row easiest TO cult
vate without injuring the corn. For
fifty bushels TO the acre. l 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 hCcing should be
necessary, and middles may be kept
clean until time to break out, by using
harrow or by running one shovel fur
row in center of middle and bedding
on that, with one or more rounds of
turn pillow.
would advise onIy n few acres
tried by this method the first year, or
until you are familiar with it's applica-
ton. Especially is it hard, at first, to
fully carry out the stunning process,
where a whole crop is involved. and
this is the absolutely essential part Of
the process.
This method ! have applied or seen
applied. successfully, to all kinds Of
land in the section except wet lands
and moist bottoms. and ! am conf
dent it can be made of great benefit,
throughout the entire South.
In the Middle West. where corn is
prolific and profitable. and where, I'M
fortunately for us. so much of ours
has been produced. the stalk does not
naturally grow large. As we come
South its size increases, at the ex-
pense % the ear. until in Cuba and
Mexico It is nearly all stalk witness