Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-07-20

In 1885 began to farm on a sandy
slightly rolling place. 1t had been
under exhaustive cultivation for many
years, and the soil was thin, making
about six hundred pounds of seed cot
ton per acre, when we'll cultivated by
the use OF four hundred pounds of
fertilizer, costing $4, or ten bushels Of
corn with So worth Of fertilizer.
followed the old way of early
fertllizing, planting high, working
rapidly, and buying corn. It always
made a big, fiourishing stalk, and
was an annual Joy in the spring, and
in the fall was in annual sorrow. |
knew that the farmer who did not
make provisions always failed sooner
or later, and in my case all signs
pointed to II being sooner, So APP
piled more fertilizer at planting times,
and gave II more work. II grew still
larger than before, and made even
less, and continued TO buy corn. /
was getting out Of trouble nearly as
fast as the frog was getting out Of
the well.
had seen real farmers make more
corn on much smaller stalks. had
laughed at them in the spring, and
they at me in the fall, they always,
however, laughed last. So profiting
by their success, as well as my failure,
] began TO plant lower, and fertiItze
later, but II was not until had al.
lowed 1t to stand on a small ridge
with the second working burrows left
open on both sides, that the stalk
could be forced to give proper atten.
ton 70 making its ear.
The mallness OF the stalk itself
now suggested that 1t could be planted
thicker In the drill.
Thus for more than ten years /
kept on studying and experimenting,
planting lower and thicker, and stunt.
ing the stalk growth. after which all
fertilizers were applied, nitrate Of
soda being saved for last blowing.
MY yield gradually increased. until In
1904, when with S11 worth OF fertilizer
per acre, the yield was 50 bushels per
acre, on my crop OF ten acres, the
land being good rows six feet apart,
and corn eleven inches In drlll. was
then convinced that the principles OF
the method were correct, and that by
dts use corn could be made more
profitable than cotton. so In 1905
increased my crop TO seventy acres ON
poorer land and made so bushels per
acre, with S7,0l in fertilizers; rows
feet apart and l6 inches In drill In
1906, ON 75 acres, with $3.50 fertilizers
per acre, made go bushels per acre;
rows feet apart and rs inches In
drlll In 1907, SO acres yielded SO
bushels per acre, with 1857 fertilizers
per acre, stand irregular from hail.
rows feet apart
1905 was very dry here at caring
time.
1905 was entirely too wet
1907 crop was greatly injured by
hail on June t2.
This method which has been so sue.
cessfully followed ia this section Ia
given In detail. With such modlAca.
tlons "a any practical farmer can
make 90 suit his own soil and climate.
] believe that q can be used with
much profit throughout the entire
South, especially upon sandy soils.
The tools named are such as every
one'horse farmer has, Lahor-saying
implements can be used. for | have
known a crop practically made with
n two.horae ridlns disc cultiya,or. II
IL my purpose, however. 20 keep this
method within reach OF the one
horse farmer, and 20 SO describe Il
that he may derive les full benefit
with the tools that he has and under
che conditions by which he Is sur.
rounded, and not 20 tell him how well
ne might succeed BY using things that
ne cannot get This method may seem
60 cali for a great deal OF work and
much running an and down the rows
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