The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

then raised more corn 10 the acre tnan
his father did on the rest of the planta-
ton.
Tells Of Acre Of Corn.
The following is written by Harmon
Cofeld. OF Emmett. in Nevada county,
and Is given out from the Office Of the
farmers cooperative demonstration
work:
Dear Boys: As am a member OF
our club and have become very much
enthused over the work. ! take a
great pleasure in giving you an idea Of
how cultivated my acre Of corn.
am only school boy. always lived on
farm and Il has always been the
height of my ambition to make sue
cessful farmer.
When | first noticed the account OF
your school boys corn club in the pa
per. was very anxious to join. and
after had sent my name in ] wanted
to know Of my father what acre Of
ground he was going to give me.
The Fathers Way.
And Of course about farming time
our fathers generally have every good
spot of land set apart for themselves.
And | was very much discouraged
when he pointed out rocky hillside
for me to get my acre on. II didn't
look like could make a respectable
feed for my pony on that. let alone
win prize.
The land was cleared about forty
years ago and has been in cultivation
ever since.
Though, rather than be ousted, !
took this acre just to see what could
do with it.
So on February 5 went to work to
break my land. took two-horse
pillow and broke il something like ten
inches deep.
let this stand until the tenth OF
March, then took shovel pillow and
laid II of in five feet rows. then | was
ready for my fertilizer and | didn' I
know where ! was going to get this.
Had to Boy Fertilizer.
For my father told me that If was
going to get so much prize as said
would have to buy my fertilizer.
Though I went ahead and bought
four loads Of barn yard manure at So
per load and 200 pounds of acid at 81
and 200 pounds Of Hope Corn Grower
at So. so you see was Sl2 in the hole
on the start. Then | put it in and
bcdded on it with turn pillow and af-
ter doing this | dragged a log over
these beds so as to make them
smooth.
And on the 23d day--of March put
in my corn. which is of the White
Dent variety.
planted with combination plant
er twenty inches in the drill. On the
Srd OF April | found my corn was up
and ! had very good stand.
About the 10th OF April / side
narrowed it with seven tooth cult
vator and ! continued this every ten
days until the 18th of June. My corn
was then looking fine. being far ahead
of any on the place.
The Laying By.
On the 18th of June began to lay
1t by. using a 26-inch heel sweep and
shovel for this.
| planted row OF cowpeas in the
middle at the same time laid it by.
AS for the seasons they were very
mild and plentiful up until the 4th Of
July with the exceptions of one wash
out that came the 2Srd day af May,
which washed my corn fiat and had to
use hoe to straighten it up. This
was the worst disaster my corn had
until the FIVE weeks drouth that
struck it in July.
Successful ID Spite Of All.
Though considering all Of these things
/ think had a very good acre of corn
for poor land. was very anxious foi
gathering time to come SO could see
just what was going to make. so early
on September IL got E. ]. Barham
and w. P. Carlton to come and was
very proud boy when they told me
had made sixty-three bushels and
forty pounds of good corn.
It made as much as any four acres
of my fathers corn. lam SO delighted
with the turn out. and think that what
| learned has been well worth my
work. considering my corn nothing.
Hoping that each and every school
boy In the state will join us another
year and we will see nice sample Of
their corn On exhibition nexf Ortobar