The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13
South Carolina Boy Grows 228
 Bushels on Single Acre.
Flfteen-Year-Oid Lad Kept Diary, Knowing Public Would Want De tails-Wins Quite a Bunch of
 Money in Prizes.

Charleston, s. C.-Jeremiah Moore Is the champion boy corn grower in the world, and his record of over 22S bushels of corn of the finest quality. grown on q single acre, is the second greatest acre yield in the history of corn production, the only record that tops Jerrys being that of Farmer Drake. also of South Carolina, who several years ago grew 255 bushels on one acre.
 Jerry Moore. who is an orphan, is not yet 15 years old, yet on his one acre he has made more money than thousands of farmers with 100 acres will clear this year. His prizes from agricultural societies and kindred or ganizations will aggregate over $500, while the profit from the corn itself will amount to $13070.
 Jerry knew he was going to make a bid for championship honors, and though he Is nothing but poor little South Carolina farm boy. he has the news instinct and realized that if he did win. the newspapers would want 10 know how he did it. and so, in or der that the story would be correct, Jerry kept a diary
 The diary, il is said, will pass into the keeping of the Department of Ag- riculture in Washington. which will see to 1t that other boys in this coun- try are given the secret of Jerry's nd fn fnllnU hiS example Here Is the diary in part:
 Light. gray. sandy upland the diary starts off. with top soil about three or four inches deep old land. nearly level, with just enough drain for the water to run off. During first part of March. 1910. spread 300 one horse wagon loads of rich dirt on my acre, and followed 1t with 50 one horse wagon loads of fertilizer, the latter scattered broadcast"
 March 25-Iand broken with Dixie blows one Dixie following the furrow of the other and with the two breaking about It or F inches deep. The soil was so well pulverized. did not harrow re broke like it was the first time,
 March 29-Harrowed and laid off in rows Sts feet wide with Dixie blow. Distributed 5a6 pounds of suano. containing per cent of phosphoue acid, per cent of am monia. and 3 per cent of potash. in Dixie fuTrow and covered with furrows making small ridge.
 March S0~Opcned ridge with shovel blow and dropped three gallons of Batess four-ear prolific corn, dropping by hand and almost sowing. Covering corn with small shovel blow 2b2 inches deep.
 Note-on this same day sowed 800 pounds of acid phosphate on rows and narrowed surface all over leaving it level
 Aprn 10 No rain since land was broken and ground so dry the rusty corn did nov come up readily. Replantsd for fear would not get stand
 April 20 Stand good, and weather con tinues dry.
 April 24 A good rain.
 April e5 Sewed ioo pounds kalnit along rows and narrowed with Little Joe har- how, narrowing twice to the TOW. Barred off with Dixie blow
 May 5I made mixture of eoo pounds of cotton seed meal, POO pounds of acid phosphate, and 200 pounds of kainit. and of the rows. and narrowed soins twice f. the row leveltng the surface A near as possible
 May 10 Repeated the work of May 5, but distributed the mixture of cotton seed meal, phosphate, and katnlt four inches further from the rows On this day also sowed 20 pounds of nitrate of soda along
 May Narrowed. going twice to the row. thinned corn to six inches in row
 May ~ Narrowed. going twice to the row.
 May 25- Good rain
 May 27-Csing cold distributor. sowing in the center of middle l.ooo pounds SIS $ guano and narrowed with Little Joe har- row. going twice 10 the row
 Same day-Sowed 200 pounds of nitrate of soda along the row.
 June 4 Narrowed. going twice to the row
 June and eGood rains.
 June Slowed sec pounds of nitrate of soda and narrowed twice to the row.
 June l0-Storm and corn blown down
 June 1l-Set corn up; corn about six feet high and beginning to silk
 June l5-Harrowed very lightly with Little Joe harrow. going twice to the TOW.
 June 2--Harrowed lightly: corn now in full silk. ground perfectly clean
 Since June rains have been frequent Corn doing its best. No sign of firing or failure of any kind.
 July @No lack of rain so far. and corn almost matured Almost every stalk has an ear and many of them two or three.