Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-12
CORN PLANTING
in GEORGIA'S
FIELDS
How Output of Grain Can Be
Increased.
how Martin Calvin Points Out Value
OF Seed Selection and the Use Of
Improved Machinery to That End
Investigating the Great Record
Made In Carolina.
fBy Martin Y. CalYin.)

/ WHS very glad 70 see H1UsDT4Ied q
the recent Georgia state fair at Ma
con, the importance and the true yaIlc
Of three factors in genuine agrieul-
tural progress, namely, a high aver
age yield of corn per acre. pure breJ
live stock and labor-savsng farm i'm
plements and machinery.
I repeat what I have heretofore re.
marked: That the largest yie,d of !
single acre. be it $50 or 250 bushels, d
ear corn, does not hold for me more
tan passing interest I do not,
would not, diSparage the efforts Of the
men or boys who have grown PIE
nomenal crops Of corn On the single
acre plan, but I respectfully conten.
that the truer test Of possibilities ii
corn culture can be made with ten or
better still, twenty acres.
The Most Convincing Evidence.
If. by using the best obtainabe seed
by high fertilization. by superior meth
DDS of cultivation, ten or twenty tor
oughly prepared acres of average sol
De made to yield an average of 35 to 81
bushels per acre Of merchantable
corn, there would be present convinc-
ing evidence of real progress and thu
assurance OF still greater achieve
ments.
If one thousand farmers in each oil
our eleven congressional districts
should, G3y the process mentioned, eacl
exact a yield OF % to 80 bushels Q.
corn per acre from one hundred acres
of average land, there would be given
us a guarantee that, in a reasonable
length of time. the general average
yield of the state would be % bushels
of shelled corn.
This done, Georgia would take he.
stand at the front OF states, largely OF
almost wholly agricultural,
The effect would be far-reaching
So excellent result would mean thai
the average yield per acre of field
peas, oats, wheat, hay, cotton, ETC., had
been brought up to a higher standard
Use Improved Machinery.
can not, at this moment, recall Z
fair of the many with which l ha7,
been closely identified, at which :
deeper or more substantial interes
was shown in improved Gabor-saving
farm implements and machinery thar
at the fair just closed.
/ have repeatedly expressed M
abiding interest in this department 0
agricultural accessories. The subjec
is of vital interest to all our farmer.
small and large. The man who tlh
40 acres must feel as profoundly inter
ested in it as the lhaa who operate.
400 to LOCO acres.
Improved labor-saving farm nipple
ments and machinery nist be lookel
to as the solution OF the fanm-labo
problem at the South.
Gradually, we are turning from
broad-casting oats; for we have beer
Taught by experience that three year.
out of every five years AZ to 80 pc
cent of oats sown broadcast are kill
ed by the freezing weather which
comes in December or January, some
times in March. One may drill or soy
in the open furrow with a one-horst
machine, which will distribute tn,
fert 'uzer and cover it, then drop thu
oats and cover to a depth of three in
ches. Or one may use a two-hors,
planter and distributor. With tn,
former, one man can seed two or three
acres a day. With the Gatter, MAJ
can seed ten acres a day. 1t woult
require zero weather to injure oat!
thus sown.
New Departure in Corn Planting.
| A new departure is ,greatlg needed
in corn painting. The practice, in til,
matter of Sowing oats, should be ap
piled to corn. In other words, the oil,
system OF planting by hand shoulC
give place to the one-horse and tht
two-horse planter and fertilizer dis
tributor. There is an adjustable corr
planter and distributor that will cover
ten to fifteen acres a day, planting TIN
grain Iat almost any distance that may
be preferred.
Experience and observation have
convinced me that, with rare exceD.
tons, the best distance, fer satisfac.
tory results, is forty-two by forty-twc
inches each way-two stalks to a. hill
With liberal use of high gr3de fertil
izer rich in the plant food which corn
requires, and with proper cultivation
80 bushels OF shelled corn per acre
will re assured.
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