The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06
CORN.
BY {. II. Hudson.

oSo S1Cto y corn Der acre
Tor len years from 1897 to 1906 was
i. bushels for North Carolina. 9.S
busfeis for South Carolina and 1885
bushels for Georgia.
The average yield for the same pc
Rod IN the following States was: 32.5
bushels tor Iowa, 81 bushels for Hi
mons and $40 bushel for Ohio.
The above figures exist in spite OF
the fact that the northern climate is
not nearly SC good for corn as the
u climate. The growing sea-
son IS shorter and in many instances
corn tjs not fully matured when har-
vested 1t often happens that an en-
tire cEop IS caught by the frost and
greatly damaged. For this reason it is
impossible in the northern states to
make as much corn per acre as in The
south. The largest- yields hat have
grown in the world were made in
South Carolina, yet the lowest average
yields are in the Cotton Atlantic
States largely for the reason that the
majority Of the farmers have paid lit
tie attention to improved seed and
proper methods of handling the soil.
During the season of 1908 the
Farmers Cooperative Demonstrations
Work proved what the southern soils
can do IN growing a good corn crop.
The agents of the work visited the
every month and directed
tlciI WCGh ia one Oh more acres Oh
corn. In the fall of the year ruey
measured the yields, and q careful re-
cord Of the cost of production, kept
by agent and farmer, showed that 40
TO leo bushels per acre could be pro-
duceG at q cost of from Z to so per
bushels. We have valued the slower
OF an acre of land at $40, which is
q fair estimate. although many farm
ers Of the south AVE not yet fallen
into the habit of saving all the slower.
The southern m must change
their farm methods and they are now
rapidly abandoning the practice of
growing all cotton. They have begun
to increase the acreage yields per
acre Of other crops. Statistics of the
State Department of Agriculture show
ed that during the season of 1905
the state of North Carolina raised it's
average yield to Is bushels per acre.
information from E. J. Watson, COM
missioner Of agriculture, shows that
the value of the South Carolina corn
crop in 1908 over that of 1907 was
$4,000, 900. In Georgia the increased
Yields on the Demonstration Farms
alone, as shown by Mr.. f. Gentry,
amounted t~o-$15,OO0 for 1908 over
those Of 1907.
Through the agricultural colleges,
farmers Institutes, experiment sta
tons, State department of griculture,
Farmers Union, the National Depart
ment Of Agriculture, and other
sOurces, the farmers Of The South are
awakening to their conditions and
future possibilities.
1t is not the object of the Demon
work to produce an abnor-
NAL Weld Of corn on a single acre at
great expense and possible detrlment
to the land, but to produce a bountl-
ful crop at a minimum cost and main
,o;,, 4I1a fnrti1itIr 0f the COlt.--=s-# & /
Mr.. L. A. Lipe, of Mt Pleasant,
n. G.. broke his land 16 inches deep !
and narrowed it three times before
planting. This, was red clay lana on
when a crop of wheat grew the year
before. He used 100 pounds OF o-3-o
without any other manure
the first two civilizations. he used
woeder. For the last two he used
cuitivator. -,
In all the calculations made below
labor is figured at s1.00 per day for a
end $1.O0 per day for q morse.
MANURE is figured at $3.50 per
-on. Land that makes fifty bush
Is of corn per acre is counted as
making $1,000 worth OF slower, or IL
90 bushels per acre, 1000 Wofth OF
;tover. Rent Of land is figured at
s.. 90 uer acre. MI. Iipe iSures his
.esuftg as follows:
Cost. of labor per, acre, Sl.2O.
Cost Of fertilizer per acre, $500
Rental value of land per acre,
soc.
Total cost, $14.20.
Value of slower, $1,000.
Net cost (yield of corn per acre 30
Cost per bushel,,:U7.
Cost per bushels, -.07. s8f4s
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