The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19


tary Stockman of the Hattiesburg
Commercial Club, Bonnie Beeson, of
Monticello, Miss, the champion corn
raiser of the United States for the
year 1911, has written the following
communication as to how he Culti.
waited his corn and giving other de-
sirable information:
HOW | MADE MY CORN.
More than score have asked by
mail for my plans, ETC., of working
my corn and every mail brings let
ters of the same nature Thus, have
thought it wise for me to write a
composition on, How / made my
corn" giving details as infinitely as
possible in a condensed form, type
write same and inclose copy to in
terested inluirers.
1t is more than pleasure to me
to tell how l made 227 and 1-16 bush
els of corn on one acre. In 1909
joined the Boys Corn Club of Lin
coin county, Mississippi, and won the
first in 1909, gold watch given by
the Commercial Bank of Brook
haven, Lincoln county, Miss.
In 1911 l lead in my county, in the
state, and in the nation. In the ma
tional contest every paper came out
in large headlines, Bonnie A. Bee
son of Mississippi, leads the prize
winners in the contest" I've won
both years in county, this year in
the state and in the nation.
My land is upland, with black
top-soil, and red clay sub-soil, and
has been in cultivation for eight
years, being alternated with cotton
and corn. For the past three years
!, this land has received special treat
ment, breaking a little deeper avery
year, (this year l expect to break Is
inches.) 1t was broken in December,
1910, ten inchehs with steel-beam
two-horse pillow. In March l broad
cast eleven loads of barn-yard man.
ure, and cross broke it with the same
pillow, following Immediately with a
teen inches deep. / then narrowed
it, and laid off my rows three feet
apart with an eight-inch middle-list-
er. Then my fertilizer distributor
was run in the same furrow, putting
200 lbs. Of Meridian Home Mixture
fertilizer. l then threw two burrows
back with small one horse turn
pillow. (The narrowing, laying off the
rows, and running the fertilizer dis
tributer was just before planting.)
The corn was planted April 18th, on
a level with Lulu planter. My
planter puts the corn about twelve
inches apart. l left generally two
stalks in hill. did not check
rows.) At first working 200 pounds
of same fertilizer was used as side
dressing. At second working one
hundred pounds of same fertilizer
and when in full silk two hundred
pounds of nitrate of soda. 1t was
narrowed in the middle. worked
my corn regularly once week with
an ordinary cultivator, running very
shallow. l think so much corn Is
ruined by deep blowing. l used a
cultivator altogether and run it very
shallow.
I have planted New Era corn roth
years and it has given satifcaction in
every way. New Era corn has Jed in
every contest, so far as l know, fol
the past three years in this state. II
gives on an average Of about three
ears to the stalk, depends on how
thick it is left in drill. 1t is proli
fic corn.
My land and corn was measured
by Prof Martin Hemphill and II. T
Hemphill under rules of Boys corr
contest.
Number bushels made, 227 lie
Cost OF labor and fertilizer, $685.
Cost of manure, $11.
No government man was In my
crop. 1t was worked under the In
structions of my father. He began
demonstration work under the In
structions of the government plans
three years ago. My success to
great extent can be attributed to the
progressive farmers of Starkville
Miss. In the year 1910, there were
100 boys who made over 100 bushels
to the acre, and thirty-three of then
we're from Mississippi.
Respectfully,
Bonnie A. Beeson.
Monticello, Miss, Jan. 8, 1912.