The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04
HOW LARGE CROPS
OF CORNARE MADE
"Divest Yourself of Idea
ThatF armingis aScience'
FARM|NC|sUNCERTA|NTY"

'FARMNG|SU NCERl ANIf
Get i'm a Good HumOr, Brother, II
Keep the Walls OF Your Wrath
Corked"-A Fifteen Dollar, 80 Year
Mule, Deaf, Dumb and Blind of One
Eye-She's a Daisy, But Can't Pull
a Subsoil Piow.
To the Editor: In answer to the
many letters / a received amen
ny recent article on rabbit loot
farming, and especially at the request
Of my Waynesville correspondent,
who asks to have our eastern methods
published in The News and Observer,
[ will endeavor to give my own views
Of how to max large paying crops
Of corn, as we'll as the methods OF my
neighbors who a gone up to and
above the 100 bushel mark.
The first thing to do is to
Invest yourself of the idea hat farm
Ing is a science Nothing is a science
that will not do the same thing twice,
three times and every time. An atom
Of oxygen will do the same thing now
that it did before the flood, and will
continue to do the same thing for
ever. Natural philosophy is a science
because its laws never vary. Astron-
omy is a science because by it an
eclipse of the sun can be predicted.
Science has invented the telegraph,
the telephone and the electric light.
Science is a certainty, farming an I'M
certainty.
Planting corr in March, April, May
or June, will do one year. but next
either mOn may play the devil with
your crop. A storm may come this
months in crop time. Next year a
drought of three or our weeks, which
Bacon called, another i'll accident
at the spindling of corn
How are we to know when to plant?
Scientific farming! Scientific pathos.
A step from the chemistry of it to
the print Of a rabbit loot in the snow;
a side glance from plant physiology
to the tilted horn of a new moon. Q
temporal O mores.
The nearest approach to scientific
farming ma be seen in a rainless
country, but ever here it is more of
a gamble than a science. Farming is
experimental, n the best farmer is
n h profits by past experience.
Get hold of a fact and hold to it.
One is, that mi will make a crop
row.; and of all our crops, corn is the
one that will stand the greatest guam
tity. t IS doubtful if you can fer
tiliZe a corn crop too much Cotton,
and oats and other crops may
be stimulated beyond endurance with
strong manures, but corn has a raven-
Gus appetite and can digest anything
in the shape of a fertilizer. Mr..
Bats experiments proved that this
year, and DR.. brakes yields of 252
bushels on one acre in South Carolina
proved the same thing. He put $500
worth Of commercial fertilizer on his
n acre and all the barnyard ma
nure from a large farm. and all he
could buy in the neighborhood.
Mr.. Bats, being queried about the
cost of his cotton e meal, made g
correction in the Evening Times Of
December 18th. in which he said: "In
your report Of my 226 2-3 bushel yield
say that l put 1000 pounds of cotton
seed meal on the acre. The state
ment has given rise to many inquiries.
/ will thank you to say that is a mis-
take. The correct figure is 200
pounds"
In this correction he did not change
the cost, which he had put down as
S14. That woul make a ton Of meal
ccst him $140. Professor Massey, so
expert in telling how he plowed TWEEN
ty inches deep, might explain his
high priced meal.
When to Plant.
Any time between the last Of
March n the middle Of June, but
only when the moon is round like a
silver dollars. If the moon fulls to-
night. plant today or tomorrow. A
new will bring stalk and cd