The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-08-21

In the winter nature uses her most
powerful process in making plant food
in the subsoil below the heat and air
line. available for plant food. through
the agency Of frost.
With the coming 81 sppring comes
the preparation Of the seed bed. This
should be done by continuous blowing
and narrowing unit; there are no
cIods and ridges left We should have
a perfect seed bed down as deep az Il
was plowed. This done We are now
ready to pant.
Now comes some very important
points 10 be considered First. how
much corn will the land produce with.
out fertilizer. Second. how much FER
tilizer can be used 20 ady antage
Third. how many corn plants viii u
take on a given amount 81 land 60
make a given amount Of corn.
The amount OF fertilizer 70 use With
profit depends on your soil The
more vegetable matter In the soil the
better. Remember you cannot make
corn with fertilizer alone n takes
work OF the right kind and lots of Il.
II YOU want to make eighty bushels 81
corn TO the acre and your Rand viii
only make forty bushels without fer
tilizgr, you must supply enough TO
make forty bushels and work II Ia
way TO make the corn plants get u
all, and get IL at the right time. or
you will not succeed in producing
eighty bushels. Forty bushels Of corn
take from the soil about forty-fve
pounds of nitrogen. and about FRY
two pounds OF acid phosphate, and
sixty pounds OF potash.
You can thus figure our on this bas-
is. Consider how many corn plants
it will take TO make a certain number
Of bushels on a certain amount ~
land How much the land viii make
without any fertilizer and how much
fertilizer you must use In excess 90
what the land contains. in order 90
make Il yield the amount You intend
to raise. Then lay OF rows a mOder
ate depth. put one-fifth the fertilizer
you intend to use in the furrow. run
through it with pillow TO mix with soil
Drop corn and cover II level and care
fully. Just as corn is coming up run
over il with small tooth harrow
Then as soon as corn = ia~ve
enough to pillow. piow Il out with mar
row pillow good and deep. In about
one week pIow again with some kind
OF pillow, breaking every inch Of it
from one row to the other.
The remaining four-hfths OF fertiii
ger should be broadcast In front %
the pillow at the second blowing. Now
take the pillow out Of the field and
keep it out. Use harrow or sweeper
at will. keep a dust mulch one or two
inches deep Go over IL once week
or after each rain as soon as dry
enough.
Just as the corn begins to bunch
for tasseling broadcast ono hundred
pounds of nitrate of soda In front of
harrow. and II YOU expect % make
one hundred bushels or more 90 the
acre put another hundred pounds ~
about one week after FIRST application
DO not try 20 beat YOUR neiehborv
in laying out" but keep eyerlastins
ly at it. until YOU can almost get
roasting ears.
We must not break our corn roots
that come near the surface for hls
is where the most available plant food
is.
We must check The upward motion
Of water with the dust maleh rfvaa
do not think these methods e o'loN
"a, will make corn a.t tr 81 and
YOU Will beat he aii Naf foa- .
began farming about fe
aso On "a ntHe vorn.oat n.aee un
would not ma.e TN h8Has So n
to the acre DO 18al
els and fft teo pounds au 81
. one acre and N3u ar nrt. ar
WELD 81 upland corn b o.ar.a
main crop of corn ~tu SCENTS
bushels Is ~ a.r. ana b aa planted
late. after irish potatoes H.t maa0
lS9 bushels 20 tha acre.