The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-06

ing the winter one-fourth deeper
than it has been ploweG before, or if
much vegetable matter is being
turned under it may be broken one
third deeper. This is as much deep
ening as land will usually stand in
one year and produce we'll, so long
as much dead vegetable matter is
being turned under. 1t may, how
ever, be sub-sOiled to any depth by
following in bottom of turn pillow
/ furrow, provided no more of the sub
soil than has been directed is turned
up. Break with two heavy plOws, if
possible, or, better, with disc plow.
! With the latter cotton stalks or corn
stalks as large as we ever make can
be turned under without having been
chopped, and in pea vines it will not
choke or drag.
Never pillow land when it is wet,
| if you expect ever to have any use
| for it again.
Bed with turn pillow in six-foot
rows, leaving five-inch balk. When
ready to plant break this out with
Dixie pillow, wing taken off. Ridge
then on this furrow with same pillow,
still going deep Run corn planter
on this ridge, dropping one grain
every five or six inches Plant
early, as soon as frost danger is
past; say first seasOnable spell after
March 18th in this section. Espe-
cially is early planting necessary on
very rich lands where stalks cannot
otherwise be prevented from grow
ing too large. Give first working
with harrow or any pillow that will
not cover the plant For second
working use ten or twelve-inch sweep
on both sides of corn, which should
now be about eight inches high.
Thin after this working. 1t is not
necessary that the plants should be
left all the same distance apart if
the right number remain to each
yard of row.
Corn should not be worked again
until the growth has been so retard-
ed and the stalk so hardened that
it will never grow too large. This
is the most difficult point in the
whole process. Experience and judg-
ment are required to know just how
much the stalk should be stunted
and plenty nerve is required to
hold back your corn when your
neighbOrs, who fortified at planting
time and cultivated 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 stunning process should
be thoroughly done.
When you are convinced that y0ar
corn has been sufficiently Inundated
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 alb 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.
Within 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 furroW of turn pillow, then
SOW peas in the middle broadcast at
the rate of at least one bushel to
the acre, and finish breaking out.
IN 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
pillow, SOW peas, and break out. This
lays by your crop with a good bed
and plenty of dirt around your stalk.
This should be from June 10th to
10th, unless season is very late, and
corn should be hardly punching for
tassel
Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late blowing 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 promotion
to size that is necessary for large.
sappy stalks. They may, therefore,
be left much thicker in the row.
This is no new process. It has long
been 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 during the process of
cultivation. 1t will yield out of all
proportion to its appearance. Large
stalks cannot make large yields, ex-
cept with extremely favorable sea-