The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-01-07
South Carolina Boy Grows 228
Bushels on Single Acre.
Fifteen-Year-Old 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 single acre, is the second
greatest acre yield in the history OF
corn production, the only record that
tops Jerry's 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 Is 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
CARNATIONS will aggregate over $500,
while the profit from the corn itself
will amount to $13070.
Jerry knew he was going to make
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
to know how he did it, and SO, in or
der that the story would be correct,
Jerry kept diary.
The diary, it is said, will pass into
the keeping of the Department of Ag-
riculture in Washington, which will
see to it that other boys in this coun-
try are given the secret of Jerry's
success and encouraged to follow 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 800 one
horse wagon loads Of rich dirt on my
acre, and followed it with 80 one
horse wagon loads of fertilizer, the
latter scattered broadcast"
March Island broken with Dixie
the other and with the two breaking
SO well pulverized, did not harrow; re-
broke like 1t was the first time
March 29-HarroWed and laid off in rows
31k feet wide with Dixie pillow. Distributed
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of phosphoric acid, per cent of am
monia, and per cent of potash, in Dixie
furrow and covered with burrows making
a small ridge.
March 3OeOpened ridge with shovel
pillow and dropped three gallons of
Bates's four-ear prolific corn, dropping by
hand and almost sowing. Covering corn
with small shovel pillow ~ inches deep.
pounds of acid phosphate on rows and
narrowed surface ali over. leaving it
level
April 10-No rain since land was broken.
and ground SO dry the rusty corn did MOI
come up readily. Replanted for fear /
would not get a stand.
April 20-Stand good. and weather con-
Hnues dry.
April PA good rain.
April 25-Sowed 700 pounds kainit along
rows and narrowed with Little Joe har-
how, narrowing twice to the row. Barred
off with Dixie pillow.
May 81 made a mixture of 600 pounds
of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds OF acid
phosphate, and 200 pounds Of kainit, and
with cold distributor sowed on each side
Of the rows and narrowed, going twice t.,
the row, leveling the surface as near as
possible.
May 10-Repeated the work of May g.
but distributed the mixture of cotton seed
meal, phosphate, and kainit four inches
further from the rows. On this day also
sowed 200 pounds of nitrate of soda along
the rows.
May 17-Harrowed. going twice to the
row; thinned corn to six inches in row.
May 24-Harrowed. going twice to the
row.
May 25-Good rain.
May 27-Using cold distributor. sowing
in the center of middle 1000 pounds S:3.3