Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-08-10

from Apr. ~ to June IS, and we com
menced following the plows with n
drag thirty inches wide, with a man
or boy on each drag. This was kent
up each week and sometimes twice
a week until June IS when the rains
came. My corr by this time was
shoulder high and black as you ever
saw. There was apparently no check
in its growth at all. The rains held
us out Of the field ten days and the
corn was above our heads but l
went through mine again with the
dargs which destroyed a fine crop of
young weeds. My neighbors said it
was too large to work and they kept
out of theirs after the rains.
This method will catchabout one
third Of the farmers in this commun-
ity and to-day our corn is practically
made, most of 1T going out of roast
ing ear and to all appearances will
make anywhere from so to rs bush.
els per acre and none Of us have any
late corn as We did u planting
from April rs to May is and saved
the moisture to keep 1t growing.
Now the majority have farmed
something like this, A few plowed,
their land early all right, but they
let 1t lay until they got ready to
plant before they narrowed It or be-
gan preparing their seed bed. When
planting time came their ground
was dry and they could not get it in
order but planted 1t anyhow. Some
of it came up but most OF 1t did not
and fields of late corn was the re-
suit.
But we still have another class OF
farmers who never take time by the
forelock or use good Judgment. While
the up-to-date man is out blowing his
land early in the spring he is sit
ting around waiting till the time of
the year comes to pillow, as he says.
Then he starts in and plows his land
wet or dry-just any old way to get
1t done. And so this year he waited
till the wet spell in April before he
turned a, wheel, then he plowed all
right-so long as his team didn't
mire-all through April and up in
May. Then he commenced to pre-
pare his seeded but the sun had
baked his land hard as a brick and
he planted in June and July. Result
more fields of late corn.
But | am glad to say after all
these same men have fine late corn.
Their prospects are really ~flattering,
as it is now from knee to waist high
and fine as one could ask. Now as
to the cultivation, the men who pillow
their land in a hurry, wet or dry, u.s.
ually are the men who cultivate
wrong. First, they never get a good
seed bed to begin with and their Ian
is never clean. When the corn comes
up and they always wait until the
corn is up 6 or s inches high before
they commence to cultivate. The
they put on the large shovels and
pillow up close to ove up the weeds
which are usually nearly as hig
as the corn and one hundred times
thicker. Their idea is to plow up
close to your corn and as deep as
you can two or three times; take a
small turning pillow. throw all the
dirt to it you can-wrap it up, cov-
er up the weeds, and let 'er go.
r. D. WoRRELL DOING NICELY.
A message from DR.. Ian Rodes,
who is with r. D. Worrell, at the
Mayo Hospital in Rochester, Mimi,
states Mr.. Worrell is suffering no
pain and is doing nicely. Mr., Wor-
rell was found to be suffering of
chronic inflammation of the gall duct
instead of gall stones as at first re-
ported. Mr.. Worrell's many friends
will be glad to hear that he is doing
nicely.
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Mrs. w. R. Kaufman arrived il
this city Saturday morning to be the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. Everett
! McRhae, on East Liberty street.