Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-12-30
Joseph STONE TELLS HOW
HE WON STATE CORN PRIZE
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which will make farm life in Georgia a
source of happiness and prosperity to
those who follow it.
BOY GIVES INTERVIEW.
Here is an interview from young Jo-
seph Stone telling in detail how he won
, the corn prize:
1.-The land on which 1 made 102 SIS
bushels of corn this year is two miles
from Chester. in Jackson county, Ga 1t
is upland and has been cleared about
eight years. My father cultivated it be-
fore this year, blowing about nine inches
deep, and he had raised bale of cotton
to the acre on it. 1t was a clay land
that had been well cultivated and fer
tilted before and had a mulatto color.
Il took the acre of land on March 8,
and broke it with two mules, an average
of 10 inches deep / then broadcast the
acre with six two-horse loads of stable
manure and narrowed breaking up all
the Jumps with a cut-away harrow. Two
or three days later 1 broke it again with
two mules, going down this time IA to Ia
inches deep and pulverized it again so
that there were no Jumps left in it. The
pillow used was a four-horse pillow but
the land had been well cultivated before
and two big mules pulled 1t.
WENT % INCHES DEEP.
/ laid off my rows 4 1-2 feet wide with
a middle burster and put 400 pounds of
Red Star guano in the drill and subsoiled
the drill. This subsol went down inches
deeper than 7 had gone before with the
big pillow, making % inches deep in the
drill
"I planted my corn on March 2S and
used Hastings prolific seed. thinned
the corn out with my hand, leaving the
stalks IA inches apart in the drill May
5 / ran a weeLer over it. May Is / ran
the weeder over it again, and on May
20 l ran a reversible harrow over it, June
4 l plowed it with a ripper and scrape,
making two burrows. On June 10 / ran
out the middles with one furrow, using
a big scrape.
USEDS MSRE FERTILIZER.
ION June 20 / put 200 pounds of the
same guano / used before ION one side
of the row and ran a harrow over It.
On June 80 l put 200 pounds more of the
same guano on the other side Of the row,
covering it with a harrow. On July I
broadcast with 70 pounds of nitrate of
soda and ran two burrows through the
middle of the ground between the row. I
scattered my guano with my hana.
FOUR EARS TO STALK.
my corn stalks averaged four ears
to the stalk. / saved 700 bundles of
fodder and gathered S,21O pounds of
corn IN the Snuck.
Allowing IS rent for the acre of land
and 10 cents per hour for my time and
3 cents per hour for each mules time,
and 50 per load for the stable manure,
and adding what guano and nitrate Of
soda cost me, the entire cost Of making
the corn was % cents per bushel..
CLEAR PROFIT OF $500
"Home-raised corn is worth 81 a
bushel at Center. 1 have agreed to
sell my corn at 50 a bushel for seed,
but at 81 a bushel for ordinary use,
J would have cleared on my acre from
the corn $72.29 and from my fodder at
$3.50 per hundred $1775, making totsl
clear profit of 5000 from the acre. Sell
ing my corn as have for seed, l make
$205.25 more and my net profit on the
acre is $29529.
WORD FROM HOKE SMITH.
Gov.-elect Hoke Smith invited young
Mr.. Stone to Atlanta and requested the
Interview because he is exceedingly anx-
ious that stories of this kind of work
should become familiar to every Geor-
gia farmer, young and old.
'"They should be read in every rural
school in Georgia and the boys required
to stand an examination on methods
of farming which make an acre produce
such splendid Yields" says Mr. Smith.
Mr. Smith hopes that all the newspa-
pers of the state will continue to carry
similar information to the farmers with
the hope that revolution IF progress
may be begun almost at once in corn
producing and hog, stock and cattle
raising.
Master Joseph Stone, by the way, is
planning to plant his acre in wheat
next year TO compete for the wheat
prize; he says he expects to raise so
bushels and when the wheat croL is
made, he says ne will put the land I'M
mediately in peas for peavine hay.