The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-07-26

fields Of fertile Hyde county. but have
never seen such fine corn as MIR. Bats
is growing on his farm here. His
corn has from five to thirteen ears to
the stalk and is going to make twenty
barrels to the acre. In one field ne has
thirty acres and all told he has forty
one acres in corn-and such corn as
would astOnish Pharaoh, Joseph and
his brethren, who were saved by the
Of the field 43 ears of cor - we
counted on four stalks. / will
the methods Of cultivation but
till the corn is matured and then &
the story Of how this model youns
Corn King can make more corn to the
acre than anybody else.
Mr.. Bats is not a One-crOp farmer
even if he did make enough money on
his one acre of corn to pay for his
$50 acre farmland he grows every
thing needed on his farm-''lives at
home and boards at the same place. "
Besides, he has as fine cotton as
saw on the road, and it is a section
where good farmers abound. It was
a delight to see his hogs, fine porkers,
plenty of meat is made on that farm
and Raleigh folks buy some Of ii, too;
for the Battses-father and son-be-
lieve in old-fashioned ways. They have
the finest peaches, and sweetest cider.
scuppernong vines from the grapes Of
which they make wine, and live the
truly simple life with an abundance
of the things that grow on their own
land. Col. Olds can tell you how fine
the scupernong vine is. Mr.. Myatt is
authority on the cider; and Elder
Simpkins declared that the peaches
were better than Elbertas.
But let nobody suppose that Mr.
Bats is to have monopoly Of grow
ing fine corn in Wake county. On the
way here, Elder Simpkins said: Il
want to show you an acre of corn that
Mr.. J. B. Sauls is making on poor
land that is very fine and when We
stopped at Mr.. Sauls' we'll kept Iarn1,
we found an acre Of corn that would
make the people in the valley Of the
Nile turn green with envy. It is more
beautiful with its Towering tassels and
CLINT Of green in the afternoon sun
than any conservatory.
After walking through the acre field
Of Mr.. Sauls, in which we might have
lost our way. l talked with him. Ilc
said: when l read in the papers that
the land for the cultivation of an acre
Of corn should be cultivated with two
horse agricultural machinery, l was
troubled for I run only a one-horSo
crop. but 1 resolved not to let that
trouble me, and 1 went ahead and
have cultivated it with one horse. 1
put sixty dump loads Of manure on the
acre in March and have also put 1, 900
pounds of cotton seed meal, 600
pounds Of nitrate of soda and 400
pounds Of Horne's Clayton Mixture.
He detailed the story Of the cultiVa-
ton up to date-a story showing prac-
ticaI wisdom and intelligent in
dustry, but the best story is the
one the magnificent corn itself
tells. There are some stalks with
seven ears on it. Mr.. Sauls eZ-
poets with good seasons to make 70
barrels on that acre. The COM
parison of corn on that specially pre-
pared and cultivated acre with the
surrounding acres on his own and ad-
joining farms, cultivated in the Old
way, tells of the superiority of the
methods employed by Mr.. Sauls IN that
test acre. He has several experiments
he is making which will determine
his course in the future. He IS study
ing everything about that acre harder
than any student ever studied his les
sons in school, and it will bring him
big returns in the future. Mr.. Sau1s'
land is regarded as poor land and he
usually makes only barrel Of corn to