The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-27

this ridge twice as thick as corn is to be left, one grain in a hill, and cover shallow, not over an inch and quar- ter deep, if early.
 Plant as early as your seasons and the nature of your land will permit, and only when soil is in good condl- tion Apply all fertilizer as directed.
 When your corn first needs work, run on both sides with harrow or small blow; when it Is about eight inches high give second working by running around it on both sides, if on sandy land, with 10-inch scrape, or sweep, set on point, and if on stiff land use shoy- el Thin now.
 Leave these furrows open and do not work corn again until it is so stunted as to prevent its ever growing | larger than is necessary to make what 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 | it's energy in earmaking, and not al lowed to waste it in stalkmaking. On poor or cold land from ten to twelve days may be enough while rich soil may take twice as long When you l think that it has stood long enough, apply one-half of mixed fertilizer in the open furrows next to corn of every other middle and cover by breaking out this middle with turn blow. And | side the corn at once in this middle with 16-inch scrape, pushing dirt around it, and covering any grass that turn blow 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 blow shallow. Then SOW peas broadcast in | this middle at rate of 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 l dle same way, which lays by corn on slight bed with dirt around the feed roots, before hardly punching for tas- sel Lay by early, for more corn is ruined by late blowing than by lack : of blowing. No hoeing 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- phate, 100 pounds cotton seed meal and 200 pounds kainit per acre. mixed, and 75 pounds nitrate of soda at last blowing, leaving corn 1920 inches In drill rows feet apart. For 40-G0 bushel yield I 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 I do not know of my own experience.
 Mix your own fertilizer-you will then know what you have, save money l anu IedIu WHdl soul lduu ICdly hVVuo
 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 pensive element next year than is ab solutely necessary.
 The land in these rows is not vast ed, for it gives better room to culti vate, enables the plant to get more sunshine and light, besides raising the | vegetable matter, which is the very life of the soil-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 1t be nut grass; and turn un' der all dead vegetable matter possible gradually deeper and deeper until your soil VI 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 oth. CT sections may utterly fail when changed to yours. Select heavy, solid regular ears of medium size, and slightly tapering toward silk ends, well filled out between the rows and al both ends with grains long, full. thick and free from weevils. Next fall SC lect 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 fertilized, after oats, and planted in sorghum or sorghum and peas, will make more forage than many acres of fodder at much less