Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1910-04-08
BIC PRIZES OFFERED FOR
DELAWARE CORN YIELDS

is determined to raise Delaware &c
the top notch in the list Of corn
growing States 1t produces three
million dollars worth of corn pei
year, on about 100000 acres. II
can and should and will produce
twice as much on the same amount
of land, twelve million bushels, OF
sixty bushels per acre. 1t can be
done easily. The yield in New
England is over 40 bushels per acre,
in Delaware 50, in Georgia II.
Methods of Culture tell the story.
We need more corn and less fodder ;
a more uniform and perfect stand ;
no barren stalks and no nubbins.
Then with humus in the soil a sixty
bushel crop is easy. The Board
offers 500 for the biggest yield in
Delaware on one acre, with $50 to
the second and $40 to the third. 1t
also will give the usual small prem
iums amounting to about SI2O dol
lars for exhibits tor select corn in
the various classes, to be awarded
at the Delaware corn show. Il will
also give 500 to be awarded to
Delaware growers at the New En-
gland corn show, and will make a
big exhibit at the National corn
show in Columbus, Ohio, January
so to February II, 1911, where big
premiums will be given to Delaware
farmers.
The Delaware show will be at
Dover the FIRST week in December
and special prizes will De given in
addition to those named above
Dover merchants will be asked to
give prizes. The D. B. Martin
Company will give a ton of phos-
phate and Secretary Jenkins will
give another ton. Manufacturers /
of fertilizers, farm implements and /
other lines of goods will be invited
- contribute. One firm offered
$1,000 in two prizes to be given to
New England farmers, and there IS
no reason to suppose that we can
not have big prizes offered here.
To get 90 bushels of shelled corn
per acre. Better corn, better cul
ture these will do the trick. We
have many growers now who get
more than 90 bushels per acre.
Hills 5 feet 8 inches each way, two
stalks to the hill, one ear weighing
a pound to the stalk, and YOU have
1855 hills and 7rIo pounds Of corn,
easily 100 bushels Of shelled corn
per acre. In order to get this con-
dition the ground must be good
ANY well drained soil III Delaware
IS good enough to produce 100
bushels Of shelled corn per acre, if
It is filled with vegetable matter by {
growing crimson clover, COW peas
1r any other crop. The crimson
,lover will grow in fall and winter
md can be cut for hay in May two
ons Of hay per acre The clover =
should have 500 to 400 pounds Of
lalnit or 100 pou IDS of muriate of
potash, and 500 to 400 pounds of $
dissolved phosphate rock per acre c
very year. The corn will require O
10 other manure This chemical t
manure will cost not more than S.
Ter acre. c
Select the best seed. Twelve S
ars will plant an acre. Test every u
ar. Number the ear, take from it :
ix kernels from different parts of =
he ear, place these six kernels on 7
10th in box Take as many ears n
: are needed for the whole plant Il
as make as many squares on the o
10th as you have ears Of corn, place
be kernels from each ear on a square r.
nd number the square, put anoth- =
T cloth on top of this and cover -
nth saw dust or dirt and moisten !,
le whole. keep in a warm place. T
any OF the kernels tail to germl- v
ate, throw that ear out. If some K
eruels terminate but make weak, A
oor growth, throw those ears out.
Breed for better yields. Select
.rty ears, number them, plant one -
w with seed from each ear. N
liant on good land Watch them -
row. Select seed from the rows b
lat give the most corn and have -
lie best stalks. Breed the ears up Bl
bigger ears Breed the stalks -
own to smaller size. New Eng p
nd corn grows six feet high, and -
elds over forty bushels. Della N
are corn grows ten feet high and =
elds so bushels. Georgia corn II
ows twelve feet high and yields -
relve bushels. Get the best seed 81
II can find in your own neighbor- -
.od for the tnaft, crOr II ,,o,, RI