The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-01-06
MORE THAN 100 BUSHELS OF
CORN ON ONE ACRE

/ A Georgia boy, who entered the
corn contest in the red hills of that
state. by a system of intelligent culti-
walton, succeeded in growing 102 S-5
bushels of corn from single acre.
His example should give inspiration
to the farmer boys everywhere. With
like conditions, what one boy does
other boys ought to be)able to do, and
can do.
This Georgia boy is going to make
name in the agricultural world, and
will largely help toward revolutioniz-
ing our corn planting methods, and
afterwards will turn his attention to
the yield improvement of other agri-
cultural products, and will become
benefactor to the world.
There are lots of things to be done
on the farm. See what revolution
Arthur Burbank has produced by his
patient, scientific applications out in
California.
The Georgia boys names> who won
the corn prize there is Joseph Stone,
and he recently went to Atlanta upon
special invitation extended to him
| bv Governor Hoke Smith, who wanted
to meet the farmer boy who raised
the greatest number of bushels of corn
to the acre in Georgia, and desired to
have a statement from him telling
| Just how it was done"
Here is the boys own story:
How Raised 1902 Bushels of Corn on
One Acre
"The land on which / made 102 5-S
bushels of corn this year is two miles
from Center, in Jackson county, Geor-
gia. My father cultivated it before
this year, blowing about nine inches
deep, and he raised a bale of cotton
to the acre on it. 1t was clay land |
that had been we'll cultivated and fer
tilted before, and had a mulatto col |
or
II took the acre of land on the 8th |
day of March and broke it with two |
mules, an average of ten inches deep. |
then broadcast the acre with six |
two-horse loads of stable manure and |
narrowed, breaking up all the Jumps |!
with a cut-away harrow. Two or three
days later l broke it again, with two |
mules, going down this time fourteen |
to fifteen inhces deep, and pulverized !
it again, so that there were no Jumps |
left in it. The pillow used was four |
horse pillow, but the land had been
we'll cultivated before, and two mules |
pulled it.
Il laid off my rows Az feet wide |
with a middle burster and put 400 |
pounds of Red Star guano in the drill |
and subsoiled the drill. This sbsoil |
went down eight inches deeper than |
had gone before with the big pillow, |
making % inches deep in the drill.
81 planted my corn on the 2Sth of |
March and used Hastings Prolific |
seed. l thinned the corn out with my
hand, leaving the stalks fourteen inch
es apart in the drill. On May 5th l |
ran a weeder over it. May 18th l ran
the weeder over it again, and on May
goth / ran a reversible harrow over
| it. June list plowed it with ripper
and scrape, making two burrows. On
June 10th l ran out the middles with
one furrow, using a big scrape. On
June goth put 200 pounds of the same
guano l used before on one side of
the row and ran a harrow over it. On
June Goth l put 200 pounds more of
the same guano on the other side of
the row, covering it with a harrow.
On July 9th / broadcast with Isl
pounds of nitrate of soda and ran two
| burrows through the middle of the
ground between the rows. 1 scattered
my guano with my hands.
my corn stalks averaged four ears
to the stalk. / saved 700 bundles of
fodder and gathered S21O pounds of
corn in the shuck
Allowing SIS rent for the acre of
land and 10 cents per hour for my
time and five cents per hour for each
mules time, and So per load for the
stable manure, and adding what the
guano and nitrate of soda cost me,
the entire cost of making the corn was
81 cents per bushel
Home raised corn is worth 81 a
bushel at Center. 1 have agreed to
lsell my corn at So bushel for seed
but at 81 bushel for ordinary use,
would have cleared on my acre from
the corn $72.29, and from my fodder
at $3.50 per hundred, Sits, making a
total clear profit of $1,000 from the
acre. Selling my corn, as have, for
lseed, make s205.25 more, and my