The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-19
Prize-Winning Corn
Is Raised by Boys
CONTINUED from Last Week.
How I Grew My Crop af Corn.
BY GLEN M'CAW,


ASSN0tt w dohiii ; tOiist
IN the Spring of 1914 the teach
ers of the Prescott School, our
County Superintendent, Paul
Johnson, and Lou S. Smith, the agri-
culturist Of the O.-W. R. & N. Com
pany, got us boys interested in the
work of the Boys Corn Club. |
Joined 1t to do the best l could.
| had my ground measured and
worked up ready for seed. then
bought my seed and began planting
it about the first of May. 1t grew
very nicely for a while. The cut
worms ate much of the seed first
planted, but | replanted it and it
was soon growing. Soon it was
ready to cultivate and hoe. During
the Summer it was cultivated three
times and hoed three times.
When the corn ears had begun to
form the blackbirds began to eat it.
About the first of September the
beavers found where the corn was
so they began to harvest it for them
selves. AS it was against the law
to kill the beavers | had to fight
them the best | could.
About the middle of September |
selected from my acre of corn 10
ears, and three stalks of ensilage
corn and sent them to the Walla
Walla County Fair as exhibits.
About the last of October l har-
vested my corn. | picked, husked
and put it in wagon in the field,
from where it was hauled to the gran
ary and put in crib | measured
my corn and found that there was
SO bushels in the bin. had two
non-interested parties to go and look
over the corn and see how much was
there.
When l figured up all costs
found them to amount to about $50.
(Signed) GLENN M'CAW.
How l Made My Crop of Corn.
BY LESLIE NELSON,
Age Is years, of Freewater, Oregon.
| am just boy of Is years old,
located at Vincent, Umatilla County
Oregon. My father is foreman on
E. G. Burlingame's ranch. Through
Mr.. Burlingame's kindness he said
last Winter. that l could have any
one acre on the farm to raise corn
for the Boys Ohe-Acre Contest, and
made up my mind to raise an acre
to see what | could do.
l selected my acre on the south
side of field where there was going
to be planted corn. This plot was
protected from the southwest wind by
an orchard. This field had been in
alfalfa for about eight years, 1t was
plowed last Fall.
The first work | did on my acre
was March Is. | disced it twice.
After that l hauled eight loads of
barnyard manure and put it on my
one acre with spreader, then disced
it again. April Is | made irrigation
bitches with two shovel ditcher, Is
inches apart. Then I irrigated my
ground until it was thoroughly
soaked. 1t then laid for a week. 1t
was then in fine condition for plow-
ing which was done with a double
disc plow 10 inches deep. Between
plowing and planting it was har-
twice and planked once. 1t
was then marked both ways with
marker, three feet apart
both ways.
Planting.
My acre is 1872 feet wide and $50 :
feet long, which made me "A hills !
wide and 10 long, which is 4S4O
hills in my acre.
May 10 started planting. 1t took
me four days to do the planting, as
took great pains to do it right. I
planted four kernels in each hill and
put them in four inches square. |
covered them with u inches of
mellow soil and packed the ground
with a hoe, The weather was fine
and on the fifth day it started to
come up. | then narrowed 1t with
a light harrow. When the corn was
two to three inches high | took away
the weakest plant. This left three
stalks in each hill These three
stalks were still there at harvest
time, except very few which the
gophers and hogs took They de-
stroyed about 10 hills. Quite few
alfalfa roots sprouted but kept them
hoed Off
May 29 | cultivated it the first
time with two-horse cutivator very
shallow. The rest of the cultivation