Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-01-28

the same day. On April 18th eight
hundred pounds OF acid phosphate
sixteen per cent was broadcasted, and
two thousand pounds of cotton seed
meal narrowed In. The next day the
acre was laid Off i'm rows forty-one
inches apart with an oliver chilled
pioS, running twice to the row
throwing the dirt out as deep as pos
sible. Then six hundred pounds of
Holmes best eight-three-three guano
was put I'm the rows and with n
flanet Junior with two small wings
L made small ridge about five
inches below the surface OF the
ground. The corn was planted April
l7h,, planter being used dropping
the corn about eight Inches apart,
three grains to the hill and about
three Inches deep, the amount of seed
used being three gallons of Bats
prolific four year corn. On May 9th
n mixture composed of two hundred
pounds of cotton seed meal, two hun
dred pounds of acid phosphate, four
hundred pounds of kainit and two
hundred pounds of nitrate of soda
was bToadcasted in the middle and
narrowed In. On June 9th another
mixture of two hundred pounds OF
cotton seed meal, two hundred
pounds OF kainit and two hundred
pounds of nitrate Of soda was broad
casted I'm the middle and narrowed
in. the corn being four and one halt
feet high at this time. The corn was
laid nearly fiat by heavy winds
June 18th and 18th and had TO be
Strengthened. The total amount of
commercial fertilizer used cost
$5S. so. The corn was gathered In the
old way, the fodder heing left on the
stalk. The cost OF producing this
yield OF corn from the time of prepa-
ration OF the soil TO the housing of
the crop was Sl39.O2, this being
made up rs follows. Cotton seed
meal $l4; kainit $40; acid hosphate
So; nitrate OF soda SO. %; COW ma
nuTe forty five loads, sos. %; labor
and team SOB. %. D."
1t is said that there were two
paintings OF the corn grown IN South
Carolina above alluded TO; the second
planting being when the first corn
was several feet high, but Bait.
planted all OF his corn ut once. The
stalks were rather tall and slender
and the eais were graceful i'm outline
and very regularly distributed on Tho
stalks. So dense was the corn that
one looking into IL could see but u
tIifiing distance. In fact IL grew SO
thickly the effect was that Of cnsi-
lage corn. The deep blowing was n
curiosity 10 many OF the nelghbors,
and on n corn lot only little dis
lance from his wonderful acre con-
trast was afforded between old meth
DDS and new for the farmer did not
get over fifteen bushels To the acre,
no very good corn ut that. lie has
contempt for deep .plowing, just
rs his father had before him, for i'm
the old slavery days IL is said that
the father once observing one OF his
negroes turning up subsoil stopped
him, telling him that only top soil
must be turned over.
The stimulating effect Of this CON
test cannot be realized even yet. The
man next To Mr. Bats got one hun
dred and fifty-seven bushels, and
his fourteen year old son one hun
dred and twenty-five while Ran
dolph county boy nj the same age
grew one hundred and thirty-five To
his acre. State Demonstrates Parker
OF our committee tells me that The
several boys i'm this club who com
peted raised over seventy-flve bushels
and that the acreage OF NIL compet-
ne xceeds fifty bushels.