Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-02

I SOUTHERN
! AGRICULTURE
SUCCESSFUL CORN CULTURE.
An Instructive Article on the Raising
of Corn, by E. McIver Williamson,
in Atlanta Constitution.

der exhaustive cultivation for many
wears. and the soil was thin, making
about six hundred pounds of seed cot
ION per acre, when well cultivated by
the use of four hundred pounds OF fer
tilizer, costing 81, or ten bushels OF
corn with 50 worth of fertilizer.
followed the old way of early fer
tilizing, planting high, working rapid
". and buying corn. 1t always made
a big, fourishing stalk, and was an an
nual Joy in the spring, and IN the IAN
7 was in annual sorrow. / knew maj
the farmer who dill not make provls-
ions always failed sooner or later ana
in nv case all signs pointed to it BE-
ing sooner. So l applied more fertlllz-
err at planting times, and gave 1t more
work, 1t grew still larger than be1ofe'
and made even less, and | continued
to buy corn. l was getting out Oh
trouble nearly as fast as the frog was
getting out of the we'll.
I had seer real farmers make more
corn on much smaller stalks. had
laughed at them in the spring, ano
they at me in the fall, they always
however, laughing last. So prohtlhg
by their success, as we'll as my fali
ure. | began to plant lower, and fer
tilize later, but it was not until l nae
allowed it to stand on a small rldge
with he second working burrows let
omen con both sides, that the STAR
could be forced to give proper atteh
ton to making its ear.
The smallness of the stalk itself nov
suggested that it could be PLANTED
thicker in the drill.
Thus for more than ten years KEEP
On studying and experimenting, plant
ing lower and thicker, and stun'lh'
the stalk growth, after which all lei
t~ilizers were applied, nitrate OF sou
being saved for last ploughing. NJ
yield gradually increased until II
1904. when with $11 worth OF fertlllze
per acre, the yield was "a bushels pc
acre, on my crop of ten acres, IN
land being good rows six feet apar
and corn eleven inches in drill.
was then convinced that the principe
Of the method were correct, n tha
nv its use corn could be made NOR
profitable than cotton. So in 1919
increased my crop to seventy acres o
~noorer land, and made So bushels pc
acre, with SOL in fertilizers; rows
feet apart and 16 inches in drill.
l 1905. on IS acres, with $3.50 fertll
{. zers per acre, l made 60 bushels p'
: acre; rows six feet apart and IL lnchf
: in drill. In 1907, 65 acres ylelde
!. So bushels per acre, with 1887 Ter
l lizers per acre, stand irregular 1ro
!. hail: rows 6 feet apart.
\ 1905 was very dry here at earll
Il time.
1906 was entirely too wet.
e 1907 r was greatly injured by M
on June Il.
= This method, which has been
i successfully followed in this section,
9 given in detail. With such modlh(
o tions as any practical farmer G.
make to suit his own soil and china
ia believe that it can be used WI
e much profit throughout the emit
south, especially upon sandy SOILS
IS The tools named are such as eve
~ one-horse farmer has. Labor-savl
'e implements can be used, for l ma
IS known a crop practically made witt
Id two-horse riding disc c%ultivator. 1t
ID my purpose, however, to keep q
method within reach Of the one-ho]
farmer, and to so describe 1t that
E. NAV derive it's full benefit with
tools that he has and under the c
80 ditions by which he is surrounded, {
not to tell him how well he might
!. coed by using things that he can:
- get. This method may seem to
"" for a great deal of work and MI
running up and down the rows max
corn than up and down the road +
ing it.
Stiff land requires more break
and ~subsoiling than light, sandy Sc
Therefore, plough your land as it
require during the winter. / do
break up more than on%e-fourth d.
er than land has been ploughed Def
Do not plough land when it is
no matter how far behind in y
work; it will pay to wait until it il
:. proper condition, even though
- plant less, for it will produce m
!" Especially is this true at plan
time. and when ploughing near q
ing crops.
Lay off land in rows six fet az
l.. and bed on these burrows with
plough until only a five.inch bal
Unit left between these beds. When RI
pa to plant break out this balk with
nth ,noh shove, or scooter and 70