Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-08

llllZeu at planting Time ana cultlVat-
ed rapidly, have corn twice the size
of yours. (They are having their fun
now. Yours will come at harvest
time.) The richer the land the more
necessary it is that the stunting pro-
less should be thoroughly done.
When you are convinced that your
corn has been sufficiently humiliated,
you may begin to make the ear. 1t
should now be from twelve to eigh-
teen inches high, and look worse than
you have ever had any corn to look
before.
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, and cover by
breaking out this middle with turn
plow. About one week later treat
the other middle the same way. With
in a few days side corn in first middle
with sixteen-inch sweep. Put all your
nitrate of soda in this furrow, If less
than $50 pounds. If more, use one
half Of it now. Cover with one fur
row Of turn plow, 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
Of nitrate Of soda in this furrow If it
has been divided, cover with turn
plow, SOW peas, and break out. This
lays by your crop with a good bed and
This should be from June 10th to Goth,
unless season is very late, and corn
should be hardly punching for tassel.
Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late plowing than by lack Of plow-
ing. This Is when the ear Is hurt.
Two good rains after laying by should
make you a good crop of corn, and
it will certainly make with much less
rain than was required in the old
way
The stalks thus raised are very
small and do not require anything
like 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
a custom to cut back vines and trees
in order to increase the yield and
quality of fruit; and SO long as you
do not hold back your corn, it will
go, like mine so long went, all to
stalk.
Do not be discouraged by the looks
of your corn duElfe the process of
cultivation. 1t VIZ Efsaa out of all
proportion to fts<appeararce. Large
stalks cannot make large yields, ex-
cept with extremely favorable seasons,
for they cannot stand a lack of mois-
ture. 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. Tall stalks not
only will not produce well themselves,
but will not allow you to make the
pea vine, so necessary to the i'm
provement of land. Corn raised by
this method should never grow over
seven and one-half feet high, and the
ear should be near to the ground.
l consider the final application Of
nitrate of soda an essential point In
this ear-making process. 1t should
always be applied at last plowing and
unmixed with other fertilizers.
I am satisfied with one ear to the
stalk unless prolific variety Is plant
ed, and leave a hundred stalks for
every bushel that 1 expect to make.
1 find the six foot row easiest to culti-
vate without injuring the corn. For
fifty bushels to the acre, 1 leave it
bushels to the acre, twelve inches
apart, and for one hundred bushels,
eight inches apart. Corn should be
planted from four to six inches below
the level, and hid by from four to six
inches above. No hoeing should be
necessary, and middles may be kept
clean until time to break out, by US
ing harrow or by running one shovel
furrow in centre of middle and bed
ding on that with one or more rounds
of turn plow.
l would advise only a few acres
tried by this method the first year, or
until you are familiar with its appli-
cation. Especially Is it hard, at first,
to fully carry out the stunting process,
where a whole crop Is involved, and
this is the absolutely essential part of
the process.
This method 1 have applied, or seen
applied, successfully to all kinds Of
land in this section, except wet lands
and moist bottoms, and 1 am conf
dent it can be made Of great benefit
throughout the entire south.
In the middle west, where corn is
so prolific and profitable, and where,
unfortunately for us, so much Of ours
has been produced, the stalk does not
naturally grow large. AS we come
south it's size increases, at the expense
of the ear, until in Cuba and Mexico
it Is nearly all stalk (witness MeXi-
can vareties).
The purpose of this method is to
eliminate this tendency of corn to
at the expense Of yield in
this southern climate.
By this method I have made my
corr crop more profitable than my
cotton crop, and my neighbors and
friends who have adopted it have,
without exception, derived great ben
eft therefrom.
Plant your own seed. l would not
advise a change of seed and method
the same year, as you will not then
know from which you have derived
the benefit. l have used three varie-
ties, and all have done we'll. l have
never used This method for late plant
ing. In fact, / do not advise the late
planting of corn, unless IT be neces-
sary for cold lowlands.
The increased cost Of labor and the
high price of all material and land
are rapidly making farming upprofit-
able, except to those who are getting