The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-04-07
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= THE WILLIAMSON PLAN
- BY Chas. Petty
BY Chas. Petty
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In the first place thorough prepara-
alton is required. The top soil is
shallow with little humus in it; pre-
I pare by breaking two or three inches
Of the clay and mixing with the soil.
! That preparatory work should be
done at once. Turn the land and
! follow the subsoiler. Harrow oc-
casionally, if it gets hard. If dis
! posed to wash put terraces on a level.
III you have good crop of grass and
weeds to turn under so much the
better All of our uplands cleared
years ago need humuS When that
is abundant the land acts as a sponge
and absorbs and stores up the rain
as they fall. Such land suffers less
in the wet weather, or dry, than land
scratched over. DO not think you
know more than farmers who have
succeeded with this plan. Some peo-
ple say their plan is best and they
put in part of the FERTILIZER when
they plant. Others say 6-foot rows
are waste of land and they make
4 or 5-foot rows. Such farmers are
not often heard Of at gathering time.
Stick close to the plan and when
YOU succeed at that, get up better
one and the corn growers will call
you bcnefactor
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pared and received the benefit of the
frOsts and winter rains, it is ready
to plant. Be sure that you never
touch the land with plow when ii
is too wet. Some time in March lay
off your rows as nearly on level as
possible. DO not come an inch up-
der six feet. Bed with two-horse
turn plow, leaving the last furrow till
planting time. In the Piedmont
plant the corn as soon after the 25th
of March as the weather and moisture
will permit. DO not plant in hills.
If YOU do you will lose by it, Strow
the corn along so that when it comes
up there will be enough to get stalk
exactly where YOU want it, Do not
add an ounce of fertilizer when YOU
plant your corn. Cover it about two
inches deep. Being low down in
that deep middle furrow the April
frost will not hurt it after planting
your corn, then proceed with your
cotton and plant and thin it and give
nj iN-nt ,I,N A.
of May turn your attention to the
corn. If the weeds and grass are
growing too much In the middle. run
one section OF steel harrow over 1t
the 10th to 18th of May. That Will
check or kill the grass. \ One-horse
cultivator run twice will clear the
middlcs. But do not touch the corn
till May 25th to June 9TH. If the
stalks are small and even yellow. do
not be alarmed. When time to cult
vate comes let the corn be ,hinncd
leaving a stalk just where you want
it,
Decide how much you wish to the
acre. Men who have not tried the
plan should not aim too high the first
time. Try for forty bushels and
make it. You will feel so good that
you will go for sixty next year. If
you plant corn with large ear. deep
grain and small cob, SO ears may
make a bushel. But when all the
ears are average size count a hundred
to the bushcl 1t will take l25 to
to 100 ears OF the rolinc varieties.
On thin land that would make six TO
ten bushels of small corn without
fertilizer, do not plant for more than
30 to 40 bushels. Land has to be
brought up by degrees
II the soil Is thin and devoid OF hu-
mus begin with the hills two feet
apart. That should make 30 to 35
bushels. AS the land is better in
crease the fertilizer and the yield
The following is the number OF hills
to the acre:
Six feet by % inches $500.
Six feet by IS inches 48iO.
Six feet by l2 inches 1850.
Six feet by inches ia S0O