The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-31

Columbia State.
 Tor number of years after l be- gan to farm followed the old time method of putting the fertilizer all un- der the corn, planting on ievei ea higher rfx by three feet, pushing the plant from the start and making big Stalk. but the ears were few, and fre- ouently small. I planted much corn in the spring and bought much more corn the next spring. until finaiiy l was driven to the conclusion that corn could not be made on uplands Tn tnls section. certainly not by the old meth cd. except at loss. |,
 did not give up. however, Tor l knew that the farmer who did not make his own corn never had suc- ceeded. and never would, so I began to experiment. First I planted lower, and the yield was better. but the stalk was still too large; so I discontinued altogether the application Of fertilizer before planting. and, knowing that all crops should be fertilized at some time. I used mixed fertilizer as side ap- plication. and applied the more solu- ble nitrate of soda later. being guid- ed in this by the excellent results obtained from its use as a top dress ing for oats. Still, the yield, though regular, was not large, and the small ness of the stalk itself now suggested that they should be planted thicker in the drill This was done the next year. with results so satisfactory that I continued from year to year to in- crease fl1e9 number of stalks. and the fertilizer with which to sustain them; also to apply nitrate of soda at last blowing, and to lay by early, sowing peas broadcast. This method steadily increased the yield. until year before last (le04). with corn eleven inches Rnn G11 4gnrfh of fertilizer to the acre, I made eighty four bushels average to the acre. sew eraI of my best acres making as much as 125 bushels.
 Last year (1so5l, followed the same method, planting the first week in April. seventy acres which had pro- duced the year before 1000 pounds seed cotton per acre This land Is sandy upland, somewhat rolling. Sea- sons was very unfavorable. owing to the tremendous rains in May and the dry and extremely hot weather later. From June 12 to July 12, the time when it, most needed moisture, there was only five-eighths of an inch of rainfall here: yet with S7.ol, cost of fertilizer, my yield was fifty-two bush els per acre. Rows were six feet ana corn sixteen inches in drill.
 With this method. on land that will ordinarily produce 1000 pounds of seed cotton with 800 pounds of fertilizer. fifty bushels of corn per acre should be made by using 200 pounds of cot ton seed meal. 200 pounds of acid phos- phates and 400 pounds of kanit mxed or their equivalent in other fertilizer ana 12S pounds of nitrate of soda. all fo be used as side application as di- rected below.
 0n land that win make bale and one-half of cotton per acre when well fartfl3xea, one hundred bushels of corn should be produced by doubling the nrno,lrit of fertilizer above. except that 500 pounds of nitrate of soda should be used
 In each case there should be left on the land in corn stalks peas, vines ana roots. from $12 to SIS worth of the great benefit to the land from so large an amount of vegetable matter. The place of this in the permanent : improvement of land can never be talk en by commercial fertilizer, for it is abso1utely impossible to make lands rich as long as they are lacking In vegetable matter.
 deeply broken for corn. and thIs is the time In a sytem of rotation to deepen the soil. Cotton requires a more compact soil than corn, and while a deep soil is esential to its best development. 1t will not produce as well on loose. open land. while corn does best on land thoroughly broken. A deep soil will not only pro- duce more heavily than shallow soii with good seasons. but 1t will stand more wet as well as more dry weather.
 Tn preparing for the corn crop, land should be broken broadcast during the winter one-fourth deeper than 1t has been pIowd before. or if much vege, table matter Is being turned under, 1t may be broken one-third deeper. This fs as much deepening as land will usually stand in one year and produce well, though 1t may be continued each wear, so long as much dead vegetable matter Is being turned under. It may, however, be subsoiled to any depth by following in bottom of turn blow fur row, provided no more of the subsoil than has been directed is turned up. Break with two heavy blows. If pos sible, or. better, with disc blow. With the latter, cotton stalks or corn stalks as large as we ever make can be turned under without having been chopped. and in pea vines 1t will not choke or drag.
 Never blow land when it is wet. if