The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-28

ped about fifteen inches apart in the row. the dirt drawn around them by hand and slightly packed No water was used. l felt absolutely certain that this corn would not live unless 1t rsined within forty-eight hours, as the soil. while showing some moisture In the bottom of the furrow. was very dry, 1t having been nine days since rain had fallen.
 The expected rain failed to come. did not notice the corn closely during the week after setting out as l pre- sumed 1t was dead. I was away from home from June to 13, On my return I discovered much to my surprise that q large percentage of the set out row of corn was living, several inches or new leaf having pushed out at the tops of most of the stalks. The few plants that had died (only about eight as the ground was then as dry as powder house. During the week end ing June 20 had this row of corn piowed on both sides with a small sweep and about this time began to call my friends attention to this re- markable instance of vitality. During that week and tie following, at which time any one could tell from the looks of the corn and the short square-end- C1 btdQGS tft6N IL ta1 OSSh SSN SNA~f I showed 1t to quite a number of the citizens of Hartsviile and the farm CTS of this section.
 On June 2s we had a good rain, the first precipitation since May 20. At this time all of the corn of the orig inaI setting looked green and was growing rapidly. but the few later-set plants were looking badly though alive.
 ,..r e-..,s.... = 4ht. -nxx, d,tr ing the first week in July at the rate of only is5 pounds per acre, but the plants being upon rich soil did not lack for plant food. l worked this corn twice more before laying by. The stalks of this row grew to a height of seven to eight and one-half feet fexcept the eight per cent. set out late in June. which only grew about four feet tall and made scarce lv q nubbing). The adjoining corn planted June grew to be eleven to thirteen feet tall.
 The set-out row produced ears about equal in size to the adjoining row and | harvested from 1t about November 10 III Ia pounds of closely slip shucked ears of fine shape and quality. Length of row harvested 216 feet. The adjoining row planted June yielded to same length total of g106 pounds. but this corn was far from being dry as It's development was at least two weeks later than the set-out row which was bone dry when gathered The set-out row yielded eighty-two pounds, and the adjoining tall row sixty-six and one-half pounds of dry shelied corn. The dwarfed row had i66 stalks and the other 127, but leav- ing out of account the latter set stalks (twclve in number) which amounted to nothing, the dwarfed row produced a slightly greater yield per stalk than the undwaffed one.
 To my mind this experiment proved nothing except that corn will stand an almost infinite amount of stunting and stili make a satisfactory crop.
 do not advocate this method of treatment. though I do believe that where a maximum yield on very rich land is desired without thought of ex- pense, it can be accomplished by this method.
 On very rich soil 1t is almost im- possible to sufficiently retard corn ev- en by the Williamson method. and the yield Is limited by crowding and shad- ing and by the large amount of mois- ture required for the large plants.
 No attempt was made to stunt the thirteen rows planted adjacent to the one row set out. but abundant rainfall occurred during its period of fruitage and good crop was produced.
 Irealize that this narrative of the results obtained fin this experiment. (especially that fact that this corn, being set out without water nine days after a rain and twenty-four days be- fore one, survived) sounds extremely improbable. I myself would not have believed such results possible without