The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-10-22
PRIZES FOR FINE CORN
CO To Mr.. NORTON
AND To Mr.. ALLGOOD
Uncle Gid Morris got the corn.


There was lot of it in Sheriff Nc
Kinney's office Saturday at noon to
compete for the prizes which Mr.. Nor
ris had offered.
Mr.. Loring Brown went in to Judge
OF the corn and make the awards, and
the editor of the Journal and Courier
went with him. 1t takes an expert to
Judge corn. The average man would
give the prize to the largest ears, but
that is not the way with an expert,
He is looking for something else-the
food value of the grain, and other
characteristics.
"What we want" said Mr.. Brown,
as he examined one of the ears, 'is a
medium size ear on a small stalk.
Large ears grow on large stalks and
that means fewer stalks to the acre.
The feeding value of corn is the oil
that is in it, and that you find in the
heart. Corn on the medium stalks
natures better and has larger heart
than that grown on the big stalks.
One good ear is all that you need on
| a stalk. Never select seed from stalk
that has more than one ear. What we
need to work for is a stalk about five
and a half feet high with one ear set
low to the ground. These small stalks
do not require so much moisture and
more can be put on an acre. Select
| your corn in the field, but never select
seed corn from a part of the field where
there are any barren stalks. Do not
select seed from the crib. One third
OF it will never come up. Take six
grains from each selected ear and put
IN box Of sand early in the spring.
Put a cloth over it. In four or five
days it will sprout. If a stalk shows a
good tap root, plant that ear. Do not
plant from the ears that show only
lateral roots. It's the tap root that
gets the moisture. A man can sprout
and test enough corn in one day to
plant forty acres Acid phosphate is
the best fertilizer for US. Better feed
cotton seed meal to the cows and get
your fertilizer that way"
The man who was talking made two
hundred bushels of corn this year on
two and three-quarter acres.
"a good, firm, solid ear, with plenty
of heart" he went on, and then he
laid five dollar bill on one pile and
dollar bill on another.
The contestants entered and it was
found that the prize for the best one
hundred ears had gone to MIR. O. @.
Norton whose place is about mile
out on the Cherokee road. Seventy
ears OF this has gone to the State Fair
and if it wins there, Mr.. Norton will
get half the premium.
The dollar prize went to Mr.. f. J..
Allgood for the best dozen ears.
Mr.. Allgood also received the trio of
Plymouth Rock chickens forthe second
best hundred ears, and kept the corn
and also got the bushel Of cotton seed
for the third best hundred ears and
{ kept the corn.
Mr.. Brown was out, in Carrollton a
few days ago and saw a corn exhibit
made by boys competing for one hun
dred dollars. This one hundred dol
lars, offered by public pirited men, was
divided into several prizes. One little
bare-footed boy got $4,000, taking first
prize for the best bushel; first prize for
the ten best ears and first prize for the
ten best stalks. His corn will 90 to
Macon, and Mr.. Brown says he is sure
to get prizes there.
Mr.. Brown says the stimulus given
to corn raising in Carroll county by
the offer of that 800 resulted in the
raising of three thousand bushels OF
corn. He says he would be one Of
twenty men to raise 800 for similar
prizes in Cobb county. Mr. Gid Nor
ris says he will be another to give S..