The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-12-15
How They Raised Prize Corn.

Inc lOllOWluS SIOlASS ICAl ho"
the prize winners in the Garden
Grove Corn Club acre contest raised
their corn will be read with inter-
est by many of our readers:
We measured and gathered and
weighed an acre of corn today. We
were very particular, allowing 70
pound per bushel. The corn was
tolerably dry, great deal of 1t she'll
ing in the box. 1t made 80 bushels
and SO pounds. The corn was plant
ed about the 10th of May. One-f1fth
of it was drilled, the checked corn
was the best, it was plowed four
times and the ground was little
foul and we went through and cut
the weeds out. 1t was on timber
bottom land. This was not the acre
that had intended for my prize acre
so it didn't have any extra tending
that all of my corn did get.
A little of the drilled corn fired
and there was little byo in the
acre that cut the acre short at least
5 bushels. l think have few
acres that will make 100 bushels,
but they were not Sx2O. 1t isn't
easy for me to get very many acres
on my rough land that hasn't got
thin spot or wet spot that Will cut
the rectangular acre short little
Considering the dry weather the
corn down this way is very good
Some even bottom land near me is
making 100 bushels per acre, not the
whole bottom, but a few acres \:
a patch.-C. C. Dye.
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corn that was raised. Will say that
it was planted on second pasture
sod, plowed about seven inches deep
quite early in the spring, after rak-
ing and burning the stalks of the
previous year. When the weeds were
started, narrowed thoroughly both
ways with the harrow weighted
down which left a fine seed bed.
Then planted with checkroW, round
hole drop planter and from three to
five kernels in each hill about the
fifteenth of May. Narrowed after
the planter and then just before
the corn came up narrowed across
the planter marks, which completely
destroyed all the weeds. Cultivated
three times with riding cultivator
and the last time when the corn
bent under the bow of the ploW
which left the field in perfect condl'
ton. Kind of corn, Reds Yellow
Dent. Size of field, thirty acres,
Think that the whole field averaged
over sixty bushels per acre. 1t was
rolling ground and the acre was
taken from the highest point in the
field, and with scarcely any rain. Sc
one can see what our soil will pro-
duce with very little moisture.-C
D. Mallette.
How my contest acre was tended
The land had been in corn the pre-
vious year, the stalks were harrow
ed down in March and ground ploW.
ed quite deep early in April and
left until about the eighth to tenth
of May when it was narrowed twice
and planted in check about foul
stalks to the hill. In about three
weeks corn was barely large enough
to pillow but was carefully cultivated
| with a three shovel riding cultivator
| was cultivated five times, the las
time during oats harvest with two
shovel walking cultivator. The acre
contained 80 rows, 80 hills to the
| row, yield 70 bushels.-H. w. Baker
Statement of how we raised 6e
bushels and Is pounds of corn of
of the acre. 1t was sod land, ploWet
last fall, narrowed twice this spring
the last of April, then doubled discet
laid a week then narrowed again
then planted the fifth of May will
Edge Drop Black Hawk planter,
kernels to the hill and 3 feet,
inches apart, then narrowed agar
before it came up, then cultivated
four times. It did not have two
inches of rain after the 9th of June
till the 18th of September.-J. B
Calhoun.
LOW 1 raised SO bushels and ~
pounds on an acre. 1t was soc
ground on the Gus Ross place, plow
| ed last spring. 1t was narrowed
twice, disced three times, narrowed
| twice, planted with an edge droI
Black Hawk planter, with the hill:
3 feet, inches apart, cultivated
times. The corn was our old kind
Harry Calhoun.
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