The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-18

acre near his front door ana he made . pet of it. Mr. Newman. h <h4 midst of hfs many business affairs. never be- fore took . personal interest in corn crop. notwithstandins his extensive farming interests and Advancing bus iness. put the Willismson method struck his fancy as soon as it was published and he went into 1t as though he had struck an Attractive planted, under the supervision Of an intelligent and capable agent. until the big crop was gathered. Mr. New man would ride down every day to look over the corn field.
 Farmers Were skeDt1ean.
 Tn the early days when the crop was passing through the stunting stage. and when 1t looked small and sickly. the Henry County farmers would ride by and grin when they looked at the field.
 Bob Newman has struck some thing he doesn't know anything about and can't succeed at Gtddap." they would say.
 When time passed and the field con- tinued to look small and unpromising. they would go into the bank and say:
 Bob, you won't make flat grain in the entire field - W
 Along in the summer, when the corn was tassefing and making when the stalks. though small were yet green and vigorous. they would say.
 Looks like you might make eight or ten bushels of nubbins"
 And when ears were popping out at unexpected places son the stalks and the promise of a generous crop was fully seen, the old-time farmers would grudgingly admit;
 Its going to be a good sized crop. You may get forty bushels to the acre. ]"
 But the yield to the acre ran up to over sixty bushels and those who used to grin at the field and the William son method say they are going to take 8 try at 1t next year,
 Mir. Newman was much gratifed at the success of his corn crop. He in- tends to extend hts corn growing op- erations next year. making 1t an im- portant part of his farming opera tions, inasmuch as he owns much fine stock and feeding 1t is con- tinuous problem.
 He tells his negro tenants when they come in the bank to settle up at the end of the year:
 I've tried to get you to make corn year after year. but you don't seem to, have sense enough to do anything but raise your little cotton crops. Now. you can go on raising cotton un- til you are satisfied I'll raise the corn and furnish you with it"
 Mir. Newman. like MT. vann. follow sd the Williamson method to the let ter, and his success with big field on an old and supposed to be run down farm should be sufficient en- to the larger farmers who want to increase their corn yield.
 MT. vann's Method.
 MT. vann. for whatever good it may io his fellow farmers, set down an exact record of all that he did to make bumper yield of i42 bushels on one acre. While arranging his pa- per to give me this data MT. vann safd:
 The yield would have been 15o bushels. if I could have kept all my leighbors chickens out of the field. You see It's here in town, where they 'aise lots of chickens and I just ,onldn't keep them out of the field VI the time. I am sure that they LN away with at least eight bushels 'o m the one acre.
 M r. Vann broke up the acre for his rize \ crop on March II. It is to be Dteo that the land was of the hard Id c lay variety and that 1t had once cen covered by houses. out houses, ards md fences. but had been in re- ant ye Ts given over to cotton grow ig. On March II. MT. Vann went in !, the fSeld and broke 1t up for the orn crop He broke it up thorough ' six incl Nas deep with shovel turn ig blow nd then used n sub soil blow , completts the thorough job of soil reakfng tn laying off the lana he an two ful rows in one. Hs left it -ith a balk.
 Two days later on March IS, he busted' it with an eight-inch shovel low and ran it sub-soil blow through nat. You will notice that there is a cap of plowinLy on this acre." said IT. vann.
 After busting. 1t on the water fur ow with a 4-intth turning blow, he pened the list with an eight-inch hovel and ran the sub-soil blow over again. On this saine day, March Is e dropped the corr at intervals Of bout eight inches and covered it ghtiy with double stock.
 The corn began to come up on rarch 27. The red clay field crust d easily and so he ran a harrow over he field to break the crust.
 On April 20 he listed on the bed 7ith an eight-inch turning blow, to estroy the vegetation. which was ap- caring inside the rows. The middles 7ere then broken out with turning low. the dirt being thrown away rom the corn.
 On April 30 he barred deep with urning blow.
 This time pIowed deep sure nough." said Mir. vann.
 Drilling the Fertilizer.
 On May 22 fertilizer was drilled in he bar furrows of every other mid- ie. It win be observed that this vas the first fertilizer applied to the TOD and that it was drilled in alter ate rows In these middles. half of he field. he used 300 pounds. The niddles on which the fertilizer wns sed were then broken out deen.
 On May 2s. eight days later. accord ng to the williamson plan he drilled 800 pounds of fertilizer into the oth- r middles and treated them exactly n- the same way as he had the first .lternate furrows. This made a total if 2,2Oo pounds of fertilizer used. The orn was then sided with scooter md scrape. It was run on the point md the blowing was deep. The fer