Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-01-20

higher and broader ridge. Plant II
this ridge twice as thick as corn Is 4
be left, one grain in hill, and cove
shallow, not over an inch and q quar-
ter deep, if early.
Plant as early as your seasons ant
the nature of you land will permit
and only when soil is in good c,ndi
ton. Apply all fertilizer as direc.ed
When your corn first needs work
run on both cides with harrow or small
pillow; when il is about eight inches
high, give second working by running
around II on both sides, If on sandy
land, with 10-inch scrape, or sweep, SCI
on point, and If on stiff land use shov
ell. Thin now.
Leave these burrows open and dc
not work corn again until it is &c
stunted rs to prevent its ever growing
larger than is necessary 10 make wnat
corn the land is able to produce. This
does not mean that corn should be
left there to die, or even neglected
but that it should be compelled to use
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its energy in earmaking, and not al
lowed to waste 1t in stalkmaking. On
poor or cold land from ten to twelve
days may be enough, while rich soil
my take twice as long. When you
think that it has stood long enough,
apply one-half of mixed fertilizer in
the open burrows next to corn OF every
other middle, and cover by breaking
)ut this middle with turn pillow. And
side the corn at once in this middle
with 16iuch scrape, pushing dirt
around it, and covering any grass that
turn pillow has left. Corn should now
be about knee high.
Within a week give other middle
same treatment, then go back to first
middle as soon as possible, and SOW
half of nitrate of soda in scrape fur
rows next corn, and cover as fast as
sown with one round of turn plow-
shallow Then SOW peas broadcast In
this middle at rate of a bushel per
acre, unless very scarce, when they
may be dropped, and cover by break
ing out middle shallow.
A few days later treat other mid
die same way, which lays by corn on
slight bed with dirt around the feed
roots, before hardly punching for tas-
sell Lay by early, for more corn is
ruined by late blowing than by lack
of blowing. No hosing should be ne
cessary, and thinning is easier with
one stalk in hill Rub corn with coal
tar if birds or chickens are bad.
On sandy soils would use for 25-
40 bushel yield, 100 pounds acid phos-
plate, 100 pounds cotton seed meal
and 200 pounds kainit per acre, Mixed
and rs pounds nitrate of soda at last
blowing, leaving corn 1920 inches in
drill, rows feet apart. For 1880
bushel yield | would double amount
of mixed fertilizer, and also use 125
pounds nitrate of soda, leaving corn
14-16 inches In drill, rows feet apart.
Clay land is said to require more phos-
phoric acid and less potash; the fer
tilizing not so late nor the planting
so early; but this l do not know of
my own experience.
Mix your own fertilizer-you will
then know what you have, save money
and learn what your land really needs.
If you cannot grow peas, then try
velvet beans or iron peas, or some
nitrogen gathering crop which will
save your buying more of this ex-
pensiye element next year than is alb
solutely necessary.
The land in these rows is not vast
ed, for it gives better room to culti-
vate, enables the liant to get more
sunshine and lish esides raising the
vegetable matter, which is the very
life of the without it land can
never be made rich, no matter how
much commercial fertilizer is used,
nor can this fertilizer be made to pay
on land lacking in vegetable matter,
however well cultivated.
Never burn vines or stalks or grass,
unless it be nut grass; and turn I'M
der all dead vegetable matter possible,
gradually deeper and deeper until your
soil WI have enough fertility and hold
enough moisture to make good crops
at small cost, almost regardless of
seasons.
Get the best seed corn in your neigh
borhood; that which does well in 9TH
er sections may utterly fail when
changed to yours Select heavy, solid,
regular ears of medium size, and
slightly tapering toward silk ends, well
filed out between the rows and at
both ends with grains long, full, thick
and free from weevils. Next fall Sc
iect this from small, well-shaped stalks
in field.
Do not pull fodder or cut tops if you
can possibly help, for either will les
sen the yield
An acre of strong, stiff land well pre-
pared and fortified, after cats, and
planted in sorghum or sorghum and
peas, viii make more forage than
many acres of fodder at much less
cost.
We learn nothing by doing nothing
new; if you are not satisfied with your
present corn yield, try an acre by this