Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-02

samp or hominy. Another dish
was to parch when on a hunt.
1.-The females of the country did
the principal part OF the labor IN
preparing the ground for the
crop, with rude hoes, by digging
up the ground and dropping three
grains in a hill, about three feet
each way. The soil was drawn up
TO the stalks, and this formed Il
little mound-that is where it got
its name of hill to this day. The
stalk, or spear, sends up "A
straight shoot eight or ten feet
high, with long sword-like blades
every few inches. The grain was
formed four or five feet from the
ground and was encased in a
shuck, or shield, with silk next to
the grain which grew on a sub
stance called a cob. The color OF
the grain was red, blue and yel-
low. The top of the spear ended
with a fine tassel. The amount of
grain raised was from 10 to ~
bushels per acre. "
Nothing is said about the size of
the ears, nor of any white samples
but Selb s Best White in this day
is evidently great improvement
over any samples of primitive
days.
Here you will be interested in
some of the things Mr.. JordOn
said on the subject of corn, bring
ing it right home to every farmer
in our county:
Last season Audrain county re.
ported in round numbers $4,000
acres in corn. The average was re-
ported as % bushels to the acre
That much per acre does not
sound 50 bad, but how much does
that make per hill in the county ?
1t means that you did not grow
but 8 1-3 ounces of corn to the
hill. Just little more than half a
pound. That means that you did
not have one good bearing plant
per hill.
There may be many causes for
this condition, and some of them
are legitimate but most of them
are not.
If you could grow one pound
per hill, it would make you about
80 bu. per acre.
If you could grow just one more
ounce to the hill, it will increase
: your yield about 3 bushels to the
, acre which on your acreage would
/ mean 3S7 900 bu. more corn than
: you did have. That much at soc a
, bushel would make $l93,500 more
, money for you. That much money
: would build two rock roads entire.
4 ly across Audrain county. How
p would you like to see Court
= House in Mexico that is worth
$193,500? And all built by the
ounce of corn that the farmers ad
c ded to the hill in one season?
1 Just suppose You could average
= one pound to the hill, and some o.
: your farmers are doing it, it woulC
c make an extra pile of corn tha
n you have no notion Of how big j
: would be. 1t would make a sur
| plus above what you grew las
$ year to make 2,S4S.000 bushels
q That ,much loaded into wagons 81
e bushels, to the load and allowin,
l. 200 of them to the mile, woul,
i make a procession 2S48 miles il
IS length. If loaded into cars so
n bushels each it would take $50
e cars to hold it. II wenty cars I
d the train that would be just tw
d ears short for 1856 train loads.
i Now Audrain county farmer
k. cannot raise that much corn to tn
'r acre. Some of them can and ar
s. doing it, but the average one ca;
n not. He does not know how eve
If under very favorable condition
rs How are these men managing
ne who do grow the pound to tn
hill? "Nigger in the wood pile
VI somewhere. | venture that the
N take the pains to talk to some {
to the best farmers they can reac'
at Employ modern methods. and
I'd fact do as modern methods. and
fact do as nearly as possible a
rt the things that are demanded |
id those methods. our-fifths of yo,
or farmers do not save their SEE