The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-26

to dry out the moisture and inHsr.
the roots and the crop suffers il DIV
weather.
I saw some years ago a fed
corn in Virginia. in August, vh..
the farmer had just laid II hN WITH
big furrow TO each row. Thr ruer.
had evidently been badly cut ard
the leaves Of the corn We're rolled
and piped, while right beside That
field was another lot Of corn jl..
had been cultivated on the level. and
the foliage was green and fouriShtrr
and the corn did not seem to feel any
effects from the heat and dry veath.
er then prevail ing. These fields We.
right where We were holding a fam
ers' institute, and made the best *.
ample OF how not 10 do a thing that
/ had ever seen. The man who hat
banked up his corn had evidently cut
his crop almost in half. as compared
with the same kind of land right l.,
side him. And yet probably ne has
kept on doing the same thine .,,r
since.
Years ago in the Piedmont country
! of North Carolina | saw a similar y
ample. On one corn field a crop II
crimson clover had been turned for
the corn. and the cultivation vas
shallow and leve'. The next field had
had no clover turned under and the
blowing had been shallow. and the
crop was being worked With tx
shovel plows Ito kill the grass" ~
the owner said. The weather was ur
and hot, and the clover field hai
green and fourishing foliage dom
to the ground, while the other fell
was fred up to the ears. Deficiency
Of moisture again. On the corn
planted on the sod the farmer mad
gone over rapidly with smoothing
harrow and weeder in the early Sta.e
e -. $500 >~I 49,
the ras while the other had
started his shovel plows and had To
dirt" the corn to cover the gras.
that should not "a been there.
Now, as to fertilizers. Cotton roots
run all over the land, and the man
who simply puts a little fertilizer N
a furrow n beds on it, soon has the
roots out rambling in poorer soil aud
the start that the fertilizer gave il is
not maintained. So the cotton he
gins to fail and shed. while If ne
fertilizer had been used more lh4r-
ally and put all over the land the
growth would have been maintaip.d
and the. shedding avoided
When I was a young man Just al
the close Of the war, l rented a rath-
er poor, old sandy farm. | planted
OF fertilizer in the hill, and it started
off beautifully. After my corn was
up I had to go to mill, and passed
the farm OF m Of the most success
full farmers in the neighborhood. He
had not put a pillow in the ground.
sod that had been pastured early.
Ny grist could not be ground that
day and three days after I went for
it and saw hat field all broken and
planted, and the owner said that he
always prepared a sod and planted
at once while the SOD was fresh My
corn began to get yellow after aWhils
and did not make a heavy crop,
while that field on the manured clover
sod made we'll near Is bushels an
acre.
!, I forgot the wrinkle" learn
ed then. That farmer grew large
crops OF wheat after his corn, and
: gave the wheat a good dressing =
acid phosphate and potash, and that
was the only fertilizer used on his
farm during the year as he was not
r IN the cotton country. II anyone had
suggested putting fertilizer on his
corn. he would have laughed at hiIn.
| nave never used fertilizer in tho
: hu for corn since that, n haVs
E found, too, that a clover sod max,
cheaper corn than fertilizer. l saw
. Mr.. w Oscar Golfers corn field IN
AaryAand. where he mad IS =
pusheiS an acre over he whole field.
! WIN hOtnlng under 1t but crimson
T clover on which a little lime vas
!, spread, and that on land that formerly
needed d GOOD season to make IS
: bushels an acre.
. Always nave a green winter cover
: on the land-hetter Of crimson clover
g IMAM anything else, but even rye is
oetter thai bare land in winter. But
win crimson clover and al the ma
: hure made spread on it in winter you
. can make cheap corn, and you can
4 4Ot make 1t cheap with fertilizer.
Then have the clover, too, for the cot
= ton' and turn it under and plant on
the level and use plenty Of fertilizer
NANNY acid phosphate and perhop,
potash II your Land needs it. Libera'
4 feE6lizing pays better OF
4 Sotton than anywhere else, and il ths
y fertilizer is uxed heavily bvoadcae
= = VIII need no Embarrassing fol