Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-01-25
HOW TO MAKE
Big CROPS OF CORN.
It Depends Solely On .FGrtil-
izGr and Intelligence.
(Bv Martin V. CALVIN


every side, "How shall / proceed in or
der to make 100 bushels of shelled corn
per acre?"
The reply is, there is no royal road
to success in corn production any more
than to learning. One may outline a
general plan which may eventuate in
large yield per acre, but there are
so many contingencies one cannot I'M
dertake to give a guarantee.
On river bottoms, flooded two years
out of five, 100 bushels of corn per
| acre is matter of course, almost. And
in the crib at cost, all told of 2C
cents bushel.
asked the Barley Bros, Jackson
Ga, to give me the facts as to their
procedure in producing 1877 bushels
per acre. The quintessence of the
statement was that they used 1910
pounds of high grade material in adj
dition to thirty tons of~stable and lot
manure
Master Joseph Stone used SIS pounds
of high grade fertilizer in addition to
six tons of stable manure. He made
1913 bushels on one acre.
The very meat of the far-famed
Williamson method of corn production
is to be found in the fact that he used
per acre LIPS pounds of high grade
fertilizing material. He dealt with
acres and that deepens interest in the
results he won, not one year, but sew
eral years. The general average yield
of his fields was eighty-four bushels
A few of the acres yielded 125 bushels
each.
| am emphasizig the facts present
ed because they realize to a branch OF
farming as greatly in need of reform
as any other branch. There is, indeed
greater neglect in the matter of sup
, plying plant food to crops than in any
other department, so to speak, of the
work
There is no such thing as over-val-
! uation the function of a high grade
manner in which the complete fertile
q er and fertilizing material is purchas-
, ed each year it is of the highest impor-
lance that farmers should be induced
q to use it intelligently and with an open
- hand.
k You would beutterly astOunded 10
know how small was the average APP
plication of fertilizer to corn and cot
ton per acre in this state last year
Z The tenant was the man at the bat
I especially the share tenant The duty
, rests upon the landlords to remedy the
= long existing evil. They have not had
e time to look into the situation, hence
S they know nothing of it. To bring the
subject to the attention of a few may
p arouse them and the leaven will work
. actively.
Reform on this line will do as much
as any other that is being advocated
4 to bring about higher average yield
S of corn and of cotton per acre in this
state. sis a sgg.;s
l The phrase, oft-repeated, "a higher
2 average yield per acre throughout the
f state" may prove tiresome to the ov-
S er-sensitive, the hypercritics and the
e careless, but it will not down.
The trouble is we suffer from waves
Several years ago the late Parrish Fur
man electrified the state, cotton grow
ers especially, by publication of re-
suits which his famous formula
brought in bales of cotton. Straight
way hundreds of farmers set about
using the Furman formula the next
year. In less than three years the
wave receded, and lower fertilization
was substituted for the Furman idea
> and practice of higher fertilization.
Here is the formula. l give it be-
cause few cotton growers may wish
to try it this year.