The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
A Word of Encouragement
 For UpLand Corn GrolDers

cotton per acre with ordinary culture
 and fertilization. made the extraordi- nary yield. of ninety-fve bushels of
 corn per acre on a patch of eight acres,
 or 760 bushels. Last year was what might be termed good corn year as
 we mad plenty rain He planted in six
 foot rows with plapts to sixteen Inches apart after having first thoroughly broadcasted with a two horse blow. He stunted the corn then worked 1t af- ter the Williamson plan. I did not see the crop. but his neighbors say # was simply wonderful He did not use as
 much fertilizer as Williamson advises
 but put down an amount that comes within reach of every one--as the cost Is only about $5 per acre.
 He used ass follows: One hundred
 and fifty pounds phosphate. Io-o-4: 150 pounds cotton seed meal 75 pounds nitrate of soda
 This was put down as per plan ad- vised. that is, the phosphate and meal mixture was put down in sweep fur row at first running around of the corn--one-half on each Asfde-and af- E ter the corn had gone through the stunting process. It was covered with | turn blow and middles broken out with same. The next and last blowing was l given>about ten days later and he then put down seventy five pounds of ni- l trate of soda--haif of this amount in sweep furrow on each side. Then sowed one bushel peas per acre broad i cast in the middies. and plowed out same with turn shovel with eighteen Inch scrape attached. No other blow ing was done. He had plenty rain and made ninety-hve bushels per acre. be-
 sides fifteen bushels of peas per acre. which he sold at @ per bushel. The peas alone. In this instance. paid all the cost of fertilizlng many times over besides leaving on the ground in the way of vines and roots e10 or si2 worth of vegetable matter for the crop following. and in the way of perma-
 nent improvement of the land, for 1t is impossible to make lands rich except 1 to plant in such rotation as to leave vegetable matter. No lands can be
 made rich bx the continued application of commercial fertilizers. and this | means lots to those who plant corn and peas.
 This year Mir. Dawson had his crop
 on different piece of upland. not quite | so fertile, but would make ordinarily | 800 to 1000 pounds seed cotton per acre. The land has deep clay sub b-soil and Seems to be of thirsty nature. He sub-soiled with three horse Oliver
 turn blow, planted same about last of
 March in six foot rows, sixteen inches | in the drill: stunted his corn; run . | ten-inch sweep round 1t, thinned it out, and then put his acid and meal down in same amounts already given for crop made last year. When 1t came
 time to put down his nitrate of soda
 he found that he had enough to so over about thirteen acres at the rate of seventy-five pounds per acre and
 wish to call especial attention to what happened.
 1 He concluded to put on the two or three remaining acres adjoining 200 pounds cotton seed meal in place of the nitrate of soda lacking, which made
 A total of $50 pounds meal used op lleft over and he put 1t down on. the
 ends of several rows at the rate of
 about 1000 pounds to see what the re-. suit would be. Now here comes the result The thirteen acres with nitrate
 soda will make three times as much lper acre as the few acres on which the l 200 pounds extra meal was put. This Iob1ect lesson clearly showed that the seventy pounds nitrate soda was the nainstay of the crop and that without it the crop would have been an utter failure.
 I It shows. too. that a crop can be made by the use of it. as Williamson advises. even in the drxest years we
 are liable 10 have. This corn did not have any rain after the 18th of May, and it will make thirty-five or forty bushels per acre, whereas, the few acres on which nitrate soda was
 not applied will not make ten bushels per acre.
 In other words, the plant food which should have been furnished by
 the last application C. s. meal
 Gas we'll as the first) did not become
 available on account of the drought
 Indeed. it Is a serious question as
 to whether it ever pays to put 1t around
 corn as late as the 18th of May. as it
 is so much slower to act Ethan the
 nitrate soda, and the cost of seventy
 five pounds latter is equivalent 10
 about that of 900 pounds cotton seed
 meal. MT Dawson favors deep preparation and planting as early in
 March as possible. Says he can't say
 enough fin praise of the nitrate soda
 for he thinks 1t indispensable in malx- ing 6 corn crop on uplands and especially so during dry years. When
 I stood and looked at the nitrate corn of thirteen acres which will make 450
 or 500 bushels and then turned to see
 the pale, sickly looking corn by the
 side of it with the extra 200 pounds
 meal around it. could heartily agree
 that nitrate of soda is the only thing
 to use to make the big ears on the
 small stalks.
 | The crop or MT. SmiLh was similar to that of MT. Dawson. There was
 some difference as to working and the
 width of rows. but the stunting process
 and fertilizing was almost identical.
 His land was much poorer as 1t
 would take two acres or more to make
 a bale of cotton. He had no rain to
 amount to anything and yet his corn will make twenty-five bushels or more per acre. He had few test rows. where he left off the Usa of nitrate
 soda. (which he used at the rate of
 seventy five pounds per acre) and the
 result is as clearly shown as 1t was with Mir. Dawson-as the corn will
 scarcely make anything at all where 1 it was not used.
 The crop of J. A. Ashurst. which can be seen right near the town of East Tallassee is quite remarkable on ac-
 count of it's excellence and the further