The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-10-07
Farm and Fireside.
Williamson Plan Pays,

acres or land that will not make eipht
bushels of corn to the acre. In manv
helds the stalks are large enough but
the ears are scarce. No one even
raised fine crop of corn when the
stalks were IL to ID feet high. Corn
VIII never wait on you when YOU begin
to work it. You must keep it up till
laying by time. Let US take y two
morse farmer as an example. In the
first place he should have three horses
Then he should raise l20 bushels of corn
Tor his horses, so for bread and fowls
and 100 for pigs. That gives 270 bush
els, which we will call 300. That should
be supplemented by 100 bushels of oats.
Then bad dreams will not visit him be-
cause his horses are gnawing stable
logs and his hogs living on memory and
growing fat on wind. The way corn is
raised this year it would require 25
acres to give him 300 bushels of corn.
That is II b"e,.ls to the acre. In the
two-horsc farm only 25 acres would be
lcit Tor cotton, potatoes, sorghum and
other crops that !, thrifty farmer ought
to raise. On that 25 acres Of corn he
would put at least $500 worth of fer
tlizrr to the acre, which would be $50. 90.
Now let him take five acres of his best
land and prepare it in the winter and
early spring by deep plowing and har-
rowing. All this preparation is done
when the weather is cool and his work
animals vigorous. Let him plant his
corn down in a very deep water furrow
the first ten days of April Put enough
seed for good stand and some to pull
out. That corn will stand there until
the first week of June. We do not pro-
pose to give the whole plan here. But
it may be stated as fact that when
properly cultivated with the application
of 666 pounds of fertilizer and rs to
100 pounds of nitrate of soda the five
acres will make as much as the 25 in
the old way. A home mixed fertilizer
that would analyzc s. 80, 500 2. so would
cost about $22.00 a ton. Applying that
to three acres the cost per acre would
be $7.33. Add 1925 for rs pounds of
nitrate and the total cost per acre will
be $95S. The five acres would cost
SIT. 80. Thus the two horse farmer
would get his 300 bushels of corn on
five acres instead of 25. He could |
plant 80 per cent. more land in cotton
or other crops. He would improve his
land and feel that he was master of the
situation and not slave bound down
by untoward circumstances. If he
wanted to make more corn than the
300 bushels let him add one acre for
every 80 bushels desired In Cherokee
county many farmers have made this
year 60 to 80 bushels. Some claim that
they will pass the hundred mark. Near
Laurcns is the Dial farm. My recolec
ton is that it is rather thin level land
with sandy top soil. Last winter a
farmer rented it, promising to pay
81, 200 He bought 50, 600 worth of fer
llizcr With hired hands he prepared
the land, planted it in corn, and cult
waited the crop. He proposes to cut it
with corn harvester and run it through
a shredder. There are 200 to 24O acres,
the exact amount not known. Many
visitors went to see it in August. The
lowest estimate was 5000 bushels and
the highest ll,00O He says that the
stover will pay for the labor and 1000
bushels will pay the rent and fertilizer
bill. We ask the farmers who read
The Spartan to consider this plan If
any have not tried it they should do so
next year. We urge them to follow the
plan to the letter Any deviation from
it will lead to partial failure. Never
apply an ounce Of fertilizer at planting
time. DO not get dshcartened if the
corn is small and yellow the first of
June Carolina Spartan.