Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-02
GREAT VALUE
TO ALL Of
south GEORGIA
Are The Experiments In Line
of Corn Production
They Have Demonstrated That Very
Profitable Results Can Be Obtained
On Large Acreage By High FGTtlli.
7atlOR and SkiIiHI Cultivation.
CBy Martin V. CaIvinJ

Col Henry Mcintosh, president of
the Albany Herald Company, struck
the keynote in the matter of cash
prizes for the largest yield of corn
the first and continuing thought being
to encourage corn production and es-
pecially TO incite to a larger general
average yield per acre-when he Of
fered, in the contest recently closed
$500 for the largest yield from ten
acres.
Mr.. H. T. Bridges Of Terrell county
took the grand prize, with yield If
1,2i1 bushels Of sIip-shucked corn, an
average of 1911 per acre; quite 100
bushels Of shelled corn per acre.
The winner Of the second prize, 500
Mr. w. J. Penson of Dougherty
county-made an average of 81 BUSH
els of ear corn per acre
The winner of the third prize, $5O--
MIR. d. L. Wooten OF Dougharty county
made an average Of 5S.S bushels Of
ear corn per acre.
The result stands for something
worth while-stands for very much
. more than yield of 250 bushels Of
ear corn on a single acre. Why do
say so? Because the ten-acre contest
demonstrated the fact that it is more
than possible to bring Georgia's mis-
prablv low ovaro ga v-io1l IS 900, -,
acre up to a higher standard which will
comport somewhat with the just claim
we set up to home-seekers as to the
entire state.
Thirty-four dollars per acre for fer
tilizer looks excessive. There is q
point beyond which one can not prof
itably go in the matter of high fertili-
cation. | recall this moment a case ia
> which it was shown that, as a rule. 600
pounds Of high-grade fertilizer is the
happy mean for cotton. That would be
approximately SIS per acre. An expen
diture of $561 Per acre gave 1913 bush
els of shelled corn per acre-equiva-
lent to 74.3 bushels of ear corn.
am not picking flaws, but calling
attention to certain important facts
which must be kept in mind when We
resort TO the intensive system which /
heartily endorse and commend
Mr.. Bridges experiment will prove
TO be Of immense value to South Geor-
gia in particular and to the state gea-
orally. TOO high praise can not be
meted out to Col. Mcintosh for the
splendid illustration, which the two
eminent worthless have caused to pc
made, of possibilities of corn produc-
ton in Georgia and the South
1t will bear repetition that Georgia
annually expends $l5,OO0OO0 to SIS
100000 for commercial fertilizers. She
is compelled to do that for the reason
that there is nothing else left her I'M
der existing conditions. There is moth
ing to be condemned in the purchase.
On the contrary, it is an economical
expenditure. Properly applied to all
crops, the fertilizer, side by side with
the best seed, is a guarantee of money
yielding results at harvest. The one
thing to be deplored, guarded against
and forbidden is the unwise, stingy use
Of fertilizer.
The true policy is to save and in
telligently apply all the stable and lot
manure that can be husbanded on the
farm or proscured at reasonable cost
Use it for building up the soil Sup
plement it with high-grade fertilizer
adapted to the crop proposed to be
grown One can not gather figs OF
thistles; nor can one make a measuY-
aoiy perfect crop of corn even with a
fertilizer not made for and especially
adapted for cotton. One may, of course
make some corn, but not such corn or
so large a crop as one can with a fer
tilzer compounded for corn. The same
is true of tomatoes, cabbage, yetch,
cowpeas, soy beans, onions, etc.
l have in my minds eyes a friend
who applied to a measured acre Of
sandy loan 5000 pounds of high-grade
fertilizer adopted to onions. The fertil-
izer cost SEQ The yield was 1882
bushels of marketable onions, which
were sold at 10 cents a bushel. That
result could be won acre after acre in
the same manner IA G-5--9 goods ac-
complished the result; 10-1.65--2
could not have done it. Nor can You
make tomatoes with q l0-2-2. Onions
and tomatoes require plant food differ
ent in nature from that demanded by'
cotton.