Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-05

partlv sandy soil. How much rough
manure should 1 use, and what KIND or
corn?
II is gratifying to know that you
find The Journal so helpful, and that
you regard it as the best paper you
have read We are pleased to see you
enter the corn contest, and hope your
efforts win be rewarded with success,
because the future of Georgia depends
on the skill with which the Boys now
CROWNS up handle the soil. To COM
mence with, you should prepare your
soil very thoroughly by deep plowinS.
This should be done at once so you may
get the corn in early and under favor
able conditions. AS soon as you break
the land harrow it so as to line 1t. ana
pulveriZe any Jumps, and prepare
smooth. even surface for the seed bed.
Then if YOU can secure several 'Oads of
farmyard manure, as many as ten, scat
ter uniformly over the surface and work
in with disk. If you can only secure
a limited supply of yard manure IT VIII
be better TO put it under the drill rows
Open the burrows about five feet apart
and put the manure and Fertilizer IN and
mix well with a scooter. The deep
breaking of the soil is essential so that
the roots of the corn may strike down
into the soil and develop rapidly and
uniformly therein, and where limited
amount of fertilizer is used, putting 1t
under the drill row will help the corn
to withstand a drouth better, rs the
material helps to attract and hold IN 1is-
ture.
We would plant the corn so as to
have about 5000 stalks per acre; IN
other words, in rows about five feet wide
and two feet apart in the drills. Very
carefully selected seed should be used,
and you should test it for termination
so as to- be certain of getting uniform
stand. Only one grain should should De
put in a place. We would fertilize this
land TO commence with with an applica-
ton of not less than 500 to 500 pounds
of a 3-10-4 fertilizer. Use Marlboro,
Hastings or Whatley's Prolific for land
such as described in your letter. At least
our experience justifies ours recommend
ing the prolific varieties as the best to
grow OF all save the richest creek and
river bottom lands. You can test the
seed by putting some grains in box or
wet sand. If all the seeds planted do
not terminate you will fail to secure a
uniform stand, and this will cut down
your yield considerably. After plant
ing the corn we would run the weeder
over it and keep the crust broken so
as to hold moisture and hasten it's COM
ing up. 1t should be cultivated every
week or ten days certainly after every
rain, so as to preserve a dust mulch and
favor the development of the feeding
roots Deep cultivation is to BE avoid
ed. All smutted plants should be de-
stroyed. Ten days before the corn is
shooting into tassel apply 100 TO $50
pounds of nitrate of soda unless you
have already secured a vigorous growth
of stalk.
BY following these suggestions you
should be able to make an extra large
yield. Some might advocate the us" of
heavier amounts of commercial fertili-
~er or a side application OF tire fertili-
ger suggested for use under the drill
row The advisabilit of this, however.
will depend much on the amount and
character of the yard manure or vege-
table matter which you are a0ie to in
corporate with the soil.