The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-05-18

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This general policy Of handling
help is dictated not by philanthropy,
but by plain business sense. It gives
me better men, keeps the good ones
with me longer tine, and, above
all, gets out of every man in my EN-
ploy the best there is in him.
"Foremen are paid $3.50 q week for
boarding hands. and the wage scale is
las follows:
January, February and March, $40
q month; April May and June, $25 q
month; July, August and September,
harvest $3.50 q day; October and No.
vember. $25 a month.
This is subject to variations. For
instance. huskers are paid cents a
bushel and earn $3.50 to So a day.
There are plenty of men who husk
100 bushels day. In the heavy sea,
son Brookmont has about 100 hands;
I'm the of season about 40. and in the
intermediate months around 60. In adj
dition to these there are the foremen,
1.-THE live stock superintendent and
farming superintendent. All of the
farms in the system. whether handled
by foremen working on the bushel
basis or by those drawing regular
wage are under the central control
and must be cropped and managed
according to the policy enforced by
the farming superintendent and the
live stock superintendent. Without
this provision there would be Chaos
In the experience of Mr.. Cook the
great secret Of successful corn raising
is the thorough preparation Of the
seed bed and the planting of the seed
that is known to be right. Next in
order comes persistent cultivation.
Unlike David Rankin, Mr.. Cook prefers
to be his own seed expert. One rea,
son which he urges for this decision
is that seed raised on his own place
is sure to be thoroughly acclimated.
Another reason is that q certain
strain of seed corn has been carefully
developed on his soil for TWENTY-FIVE
years, and he holds that no substi.
tute could be had from professional
seed corn growers which would do as
we'll for him.
Here are i. Mr.. Cooks rules for grow
ling good corn and plenty Of it:
Make q fine and mellow seed bed.
check in your corn and then drag
Thoroughly before it comes up. When
lit is about three inches high go in
with the walking cultivator; after
that cultivate four times.
The test OF successful farming
comes in season which is out Of the
Iordinarya One year we had drought
lin Iowa, and that year my neighbors
did not raise more than ten bushels Of
corn to the acre. Early in the season
1 made up my mind that we were
going to have q sustained drought and
4 cultivated accordingly. keeping every
man in the field stirring up the sur
drove the cultivators out. This was
face of the soil until the tall growth Of
the corn to retain the moisture in the
ground. Mariners around here called
me fool for doing this but what was
the result? | averaged 81 bushels Of
corn to the acre on four thousand
acres. and marketed that corn at IS
cents bushel. It is my aim to keep
steers and hogs enough to feed out
three-fourths of the corn raised on the
place; the other fourth is sold on the
market"
Starting with sod land. the crop ro-
tation scheme OF the Brookmont farm
is two successive crops of corn; this
is followed with small grain, either
oats. barley or wheat. With the small
grain is sown medium red clover. For
the last seeding the bed is thoroughly
prepared, the grain sown and the land
dragged once. Then the clover is sown
and the land dragged lightly. The
reason of this treatment is that the
grain gets in more thoroughly and gets
q start. The clover does not get in so
deep and grows better fol. that reason.
Mr.. Cook finds that he is able to
figure the first crop Of corn following
sod running at 60 to rs bushels an
acre. Sometimes he is able to get as
high as 1O4 bushels to the acre. The
second crop on the same land gen
orally falls off to a yield of SO to 60
bushels to the acre, and if the crop
were corn again the third year The
yield would not be more than forty
bushels.
In the fall of the third year he pas
lures his cattle on the clover land
latter the grain has been cut. The
next year. the fourth. the clover is cut
flor hay or for seed and on rlv fhof foil