The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-31
MT. E. McIUer WilLiamson's
 Corn Method
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you expect ever to have any use of it again.
 Bed with turn-pIow In six-foot rows. leaving five-inch balk. When ready to plant. break this out with scooter. following in bottom of this furrow deep with Dixie blow, wing taken of. Ridge then on this furrow with same blow. still going deep Run corn planter on this ridge. dropping one grain every five or six inches. Plant early, as soon as frost danger is past, say first seasonabie spell after March IS, in this section. Especially Is early planting necessary on very rich lands where stalks cannot other wise be prevented from growing too large. Give first working with har- row or any blow that will not cover or twelve-inch sweep on both sides of corn, which should now be about eight inches high. Inn after this working. It is not necessary that the plants should be left all the same distance If the right number remain to each | yard of row.
 Corn should not be worked again until the erowth has been badly re- tarded. and the stalk SO hard that 1t will never grow too large. This is the most difficult point in the whole pro- cess. Experience and Judgment are required to know just how much the stalk should be stunted. and plenty of nerve Is required to hold back your corn when your neighbors. who fertii- iyed at planting time and cultivated rapidly, have corn twice the size of yours. (They are having their fun now, yours will come at harvest time). The richer the land sthe more neces- sary 1t is that the stunting process should be thoroughly done.
 When you are convinced that your corn has been sufficiently humiliated, you may begin to make the ear. It should now be from twelve to eighteen inches high. and look worse than you have ever had any corn to look be- fore.
 Put half of your mixed fertilizer this being the first used at alD in the old sweep furrow on both sides of every other middle with turn blow. About one week later treat the other middle the same way. Within a few days side corn in first middle with six teen-inch sweep. Put all your nitrate of soda in this furrow. if less than i6e pounds If more. use one-half of 1t now. Cover with one furrow of turn blow, then SOW peas in the middle broadcast at the rate of at least one bushel to the acre. and finish breaking out.
 In a few days side corn in other middle with same sweep. put balance or nitrate of soda in this furrow if It has been divided. cover with turn ptoW' SOW peas. and break. This lays by your crop with a good bed and plenty of dirt around ursstalk. This should be from June 10 to 20, unless season is very late, and corn should be hardly punching for tassei.
 Lay by early. More corn is ruined by late blowing than by lack of blow ing. This is when the ear is hurt. Two good rains after laying by should make you q good crop Of corn. and 1t will certainly make with much less rain than was required in the old way.
 The stalks thus raised are very small and no not require anything Ike the moisture even in proportion to size that is necessary for large sappy stalks. They may, therefore, be left much thicker in the row. This is no new process. It has long been a custom to cut back vines and trees In order to increase the yield and auai- ny or fruit! and so long as you do not hold back your corn. 1t will go, like mine so long went. all to stalk. DO not be discouraged by the looks of your corn during the process of cultivation. It will yield out of ali proportion to It's appearance. Large stalks cannot make large yields. ex- cept with extremely favorable sea ] sons for they cannot stand a lack or moisture. Early applications of manure go to make large stalks. which you do not want. and the plant food Is all thus used up before the ear which you do want, Is made. Tai stalks not only will not produce well themselves. but will not allow you to make the pea vines. so necessary to the improvement of land. Corn raised by this method should never grow over seven and one-haif feet high. and the ear should be near to the ground.
 consider the final application of nitrate of soda an essential point in this ear making process. It should all ways be applied at last blowing and unmixed with other fertilizers.
 am satisfied with one ear to the stalk, unless a prolific variety is planted. and leave a hundred stalks for every bushel that I expect to make. I find the six-foot row easiest to cultivate without injuring the corn. For fifty bushels to the acre, I leave 1t sixteen inches apart; for seventy five bush els the aara