The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25

! Bureau of Cotton Statistics Is receiving
 daily letters, illustrating the success in growing when the Williamson
 method : is used. Mir. seymour has
 started q propaganda in Alabama to l inform the farmers of the State of the
 excellence of the Williamson method 1 in corn raising. He has been assured by hundreds of farmers that the meth cd
 is all that has been claimed for 1t by it's best friends. Mir. Seymour for some time hase been sending out literature
 relating to this important agricultural
 method and he has been receiving I scores of letters testlfying to its value
 in increasing the corn yield.
 Specimens of these testimonials are | given in the letters here quoted, show
 ing that leading citizens of the various | counties are anxious to cooperate in
 disseminating information about the | new idea.
 l J. B. Lyons. Probate Judge. Leo coun- ty. Ala.--I am positive that our farm CTS could. and most assuredly should.
 raise all the corn and hay that they
 need to run their stock from season to
 season. and until they do that, the real article of prosperity will never exist with them as 1t should.
 I. c. Collier, Banner Montgomery County, Ala.--I have tested the Will Hanson method of growing corn, and am delighted with it. It Is the only way to make corn on poor land. Any
 man who follows this method can make
 all the corn he needs for one blow on four acres.
 l. B. Slaughter, Probate Judge, Mon
 roe County-I shall do all that can
 to bring the attention of the farmers
 of my county to the Williamson meth
 cd of growing corn. I verify believe
 our Southern farmers are trampling nj fo I.yfn at la AfN =
 doors. and which would quickly be put into operation if only unveiled and rightly placed before them.
 M. H. Law, Goshen, Pike County For a long time I tried to grow suHi-
 cient corn every year to do me, but
 invariably. I was compelled to buy corn to finish my crop. Two years
 ago, however, my attention was called l to the Williamson method, but 1t was too late to give 1t a tesct. determined.
 however, to try 1t in 1907, and decided at first to put in only one acre, but afterwards concluded to put in eleven
 acres. which I did. And with 300 pounds of mixed fertilizers and sixty
 pounds of nitrate of soda, to the acre, gathered forty-four bush els to the
 acre, or ASA bushels. This year have put in thirty acres. and although !
 have not gathered 1t, I know that l
 shall not only have enough corn to do
 me. but I will have corn to sell My
 land Is poor. piney-woods, sandy land
 4. P. Smith, Probate Judge. Greene County--Coupt on my cooperation in the campaign of bringing the attention of the farmers Of AlabamA to the VII.
 liamsen method of growing corn. in
 my Judgment, the only way in which
 the people of the South can command
 their own price for cotton Is by grow
 ing for home consumption such prod
 ucts as they may need.
 McNeill Smith. PrattYille, Autauga County-I have tested in part the will Hanson method of growing corn, f. e., with regard to stunting and fertillz- ing l did not follow the method with respect to width Of rows and distance of stalks in the drill. Had I done so, I do not doubt that. notwithstanding the excessive dry weather I would have made from forty to fifty bushels of corn to the acre This on poor. butchered land.
 A. P. Singleton. Probate Judge Bull lock County-I believe the Williamson plan for making corn the solution of many questions that heretofore nave confronted us.
 5, William E. Skeggs. Probate Juuge, Morgan County-Send me as many cir culars of the williamson method as you can spare. I believe 1t to be what the farmers need.
 J.. H. H. Smith. Probate Judge. Baldwin County-I will do all can to persuade the farmers of this county to adopt the Williamson method of rais- ing corn. doubled the yield on my farm by adopting a similar method; that is, if l understand 1t. From what I have read of 1t, it consists of dwarf ing the stalk, so as to leave more stalks on the ground, and. after stunt Ing It, putting the fertilizer to the corn to make the ear.
 James A. Corley Probate Judge De- Kalb County-I will be glad to CO., operate in bringing the attention of question. as see the sore need of more corn in our section.
 A. c. Edmonson, Judge Of Probate, Pike County-We have a good many farmers in this county who have tried the Williamson method of raising corn, and it has proven a success. we have on particular farmer who planted poor land as there Is in the State, and he gathered and measured seventy-two bushels to the acre
 L. C. Hudgins. Probate Judge. Pick. ems County-I am in hearty approval of the campaign for the improvement of corn culture In this State. 1t is tust what Is needed.
 SF EEOpdGS JuuRe, TaiiA- poosa County-l have studied with in- terest the Williamson method of grow ing corn, and have come to the con- clusion that this Is the practical plan lO follow. Some farmers in this county are trying it, and they are making from four to i've times as much corn per acre after this method as they have been growing heretofore after the old method. All who have tried 1t are delighted. It is a success
 L. G. Dawson. Ware, Fillmore Coun- ty-My attention was first attracted to the Williamson plan in the latter part of April. 1906. As soon as I read 1t I was convinced that 1t was the proper way to grow corn in this sec- ton, especially as my experience in the effort to increase the yield of my corn crop by the application of com mercial fertilizer hao been exactly the same as his. I had already planned