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

sons, for they cannot stand a lack
of moisture Early applications of
manure go to make large stalks,
which you do not want, and the plant
! food is all thus used up before the
lear, which you do want, is made. Tall
| stalks not only will not produce well
themselves, but VIII not allow you to
make the pea vines, so necessary to
the Improvement of land. Corn rails
ed by this method should never grow
over seven and one-half feet high
and the ear should be near to the
ground.
| consider the final application of
nitrate of soda an essential point in
this ear-making process. It should
always be applied at last blowing and
unmixed with other fertilizers.
| am satisfied with one ear to the
stalk unless a prolific variety is
planted, and leave a hundred stalks
for every bushel that | expect to
make. | find the siX-foot row easiest
to cultivate without injuring the
corn. For fifty bushels to the acre
l leave it sixteen inches apart; for
seventy-fve bushels to the acre,
l,
dred bushels, eight inches apart.
Corn should be planted from four to
six inches below the level, and hid
by from four to six inches above.
No hoeing should be necessary, and
middles may be kept clean until time
to break out by using harrow or by
running furrow in center of middle
and bedding on that with one or
more rounds of turn plow.
| would advise only a few acres
tried by this method the first year,
or until you are familiar with it's APP
plication. Especially is it hard at
first to fully carry out the stunning
process, where a whole crop is in
volved, and this is the absolutely es-
sential part of the process.
This method | have applied, or
seen applied, successfully to all kinds
of land in this section except wet
lands and moist bottoms, and | am
confident it can be made of great
benefit throughout the entire south.
In the middle west, where corn is
so prolific, and where, unfortunately
for us, so much of ours has been pro-
duced, the stalk does not naturally
grow large. AS We come south it's
size increases, at the expense of the
ear, until in Cuba and Mexico it is
nearly all stalk (Witness Mexican va
rieties.)
The purpose of this method is to
eliminate this tendency of corn to
overgrowth at the expense of yield in
this southern climate.
RV tbiC mot bn1 bouO ,,oIo
corn crop, and my neighbors and
friends who have adopted it have,
without exception, derived great ben
eft therefrOm.
Plant your own seed. | would not
advise a change of seed and method
the same year, as you will not then
know from which you have derived
the benefit. | have used three va
rieties, and all have done we'll |
have never used this method for late
planting. In fact | do not advise
the late planting of corn, unless it
be necessary for cold lowlands.
The increased cost of labor and the
high price of all material and land
are rapidly making farming unprofit-
able, except to those who are getting
hiOhii OiO oolS "HdC lHey formerly
got from two. We must make our
lands richer by blowing deep, plant
ing peas and other legumes, manur-
ing them with acid phosphate and
potash, which are relatively cheap,
and returning to the soil the result
ant vegetable matter rich in humus
and expensive nitrogen. The needs
of our soil are such that the south
can never reap the full measure of
prosperity that should be hers until
this is done.
| give this method as a farmer to
the farmers of the south, trusting
that thereby they may be benefited as
| have been.
E. MIVER WILLIAMSON.
Gaffney, S. c.