The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-03-23

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eanizing corn clubs in every preclnel
i'm the county. j.. NJ Grey OF the Az
ricultural department In Raleigh wa:
in town last week and gave the
boys of the graded school q very IN
teresting talk upon how to enter the
boys corn club. These clubs are nov
organized all over the entire State
Only q few clubs, however, are organ,
ICED in this county. The county sup.
e-fntendenc of education with the sic
of many Of the leading farmers OF The
county is beginning g strenuous cam
paign In every precinct in the coun-
u towards getting the boys interest
ed in the contest. The state has ap-
propriated q large sum of money to be
distributed over each district in pre-
miums for the best production to the
acre made by any boy between IL
and II years Of age.
The regulations governing the con-
test are as follows:
Regulations Governing Contest
J.. The contestant must be be-
tween IL and IL years of age and live
on the farm, except any boy who is
now IL years old and will be IL not
late than June LIST, or any boy who
is now II years old, and will be 18 not
earliersthan August list, may enter the
contest.
2. He must cultivate one acre in
corn, doing all the work himself, ex-
cept he may have help TO first break
the land and also in gathering the
crop; but after the land is first broken
the contestant must do all the work
himself
9. The acre must be Of regular shape
either square or a paraI1eleOgram, not
less than a half-acre wide. This for
the purpose Of easy and accurate
measurement. It may be in any part
of the field, but preferably by the road
side. It cannot be a garden spot, a
city lot, or other plat Of land belong
ing to a corporation, but a part of a
FARM
4. Commercial fertilizers may be
used up to $40 worth. Cotton seed,
cotton-seed meal, city garbage, fish or
scrap are considered as commercial
fertilizers. Lot and stable manure,
limit.
6. A record must be kept Of all fer
filters used, kind and amount, work
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of the kind; also, of the weather,
rains, droughts, etc and the condition
of the soil when the crop is worked,
the time of planting, cultivation, etc.
8. The land must be measured, the
crop gathered and weighed or measur-
ed-not estimated-in the presence of
such witnesses as the Department Of
Agriculture or its authorized agents
may select.
2 The crop must be gathered and the
report. sent into my Office before Nov
ember Is, 1911.
g. The Superintendent of Puplic
Instruction in your county will CO.
operate with me in these Boys Corn
Club contest, and will be the repre-
sentative of the Department of Agri-
culture, and, as such, win appoint
committees. give further Information,
etc
II the land to be cultivated is clay
or stiff land, pillow it as early. as con-
venient from 6 to 10 inches deco, ac-
cording to previous blowing. Do not
not turn up more than a half inch Of
raw soil. 1t will be better to pillow the
land SO 1t will edge up instead of
turning it over fat. Harrow well af
ter it is broken. Continue to harrow
until the soil is in a thoroughly pull
verified condition. Use disc, cutaway
Acme, or any harrow that will break
clods and pulYerize the land we'll.
The better. it is narrowed. the larger
will be the yield of corn. If the land
car be broken twice, the last time
not SO deep, and again narrowed well
before planting, the crop will be in
creased. If the land is light or sandy
it will not be necessary to break il
so early to harrow so much. Simply
work it until it is in a fine mellow
condition.
Manue narrowed in with a disc or
cutaway harrow will give better re-
suits than if turned under deep with
o p1ow. Do not plant the corn until
the soil gets warm. Plant only best
selected sound seed. Use plenty of
seed and1 plant as trick as the fer
tility of the soil will justify. On
light or sandy land use about one
third of the fertilizers at the time Of
planting and the remainder as side
applications. On clay or heavy lands
all the fertilizers can be. used when
preparing forlplanting. Let all culti-
walton after the first working be shall
sloW Cultivate often. Get the advice of
the best. corn growers in your section
is to variety hest suited to your soil,
and details as to cultivation, etc. If
you are going to plant on upland do
not s seed that has been long
grown on loWIands, and if you r
going to plant on lowland,s use corn
for seed that has been grown on low
land and that has given best results
on that kind of land. AS far as pos
,sible, plant seed that grew on the
same type of soil you are going TO
cultivate. However. procure seed
from corn that is known to produce
large yields. Do not use varieties
that have not been tried in your sec
lion. As a rule, corn yielding two or
more ears to the stalk will produce
more corn 9 acre than varieties pro-
ducing only one ear.
Study the above suggestions, study
your crop, and keep the records ae-
curately. By doing this you may ac-
quire the habit of observing, which
will prove to be a great value to you