The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-07-25
VOL. %. NO. 80.

IL ooutn CdTOllnd farmers were to
make enough corn to supply needs
of the state would they be more
prosperous by doing so or is there
something better they can do? Men
express regret for great many
things but farmer never express
ed regret that he had plenty OF
home grown corn in his crib.
The average yield of corn in South
Carolin is a little less than 20 bus
hels. some make 40 bushels and a
few make SO bushels an acre. Far
n:'ers who make less than 25 bushels
an acre can afford to be little more
intensive in their methods SO as to
bring the acre yield up to 80 bushels
or more, while farmers who are max
ing from 80 to 40 bushels an acre,
and wish to produce more corn,
would do better to increase their
acreage in corn until the land be-
comes more productive. Thirty to
forty bushels an acre is about right
for most lands in this state and far
mers who make such yields may be
found in all parts of the State. On
some farms the land is good enough
Ito make forty to fifty bushels an
acre by proper use of commercial
fertilizers.
Sometimes there is good ground
for difference of opinion as to wheth-
er thing should be this way or some
other way, but there is one thing
that every farmer in South Carolina
can do and know that he is right
and know that he will produce more
feed at about the same cost and be
better off for doing it-he can put
his corn rows six feet apart and when
the corn has been worked and has a
good start he can plant a row of vel
vet beans between every two rows Of
corn on his place. By doing this he
will about double the amount of food
produced and he will have land that
is more productive. No farmer on
earth has within his reach a thing
that is easier to do and that will &C
complish more. The hills of beans
should be about three feet apart with
two beans in hill. Subsequent cul-
tivations will take care of both
crops. The early speckled bean,
sometimes caller 80 day" and again
'1OO-day," is the best to use.
The tillage of the soil cannot be
too good for corn. The land should
be fine, mellow, anu moist and
should be free from weeds. Corn will
not make a crop in either clods or
grass.
Break the land from four to seven
inches deep and with harrows thor
oughly pulverize the ploughed soil
the full depth. Disking the land
ahead Of the plow is a good practice.
Fix the land right before you plant
and then SO cultivate it as to keep it
like you fixed it until the crop in
made. The soil should be clean and
mellow. The cultivation should not
be deep enough to injure the roots of
the crop.
Use fertilizers moderately, not ex-
travagantly and do not withhold the
application too long. Nitrate of soda
pays applied at the rate of rs to 100
pounds to the acre Apply just be-
fore the corn tassels. The mixed fer
tllizer can be mixture of equal
parts of cottonseed meal and acid
phosphate, or it can be $50 or $40
Cottonseed meal by itself is a good
fertilizer for corn
There are many good varieties Of
corn. Marlboro. Williamson, Brum-
son, Weekly. Lee County, Reids,
zee Dee 5, Goodman, Lowman, Bel
mont, Carrie, Mosby, Baldwin, and
Douthit are all good, and even this
long list does not include all the good
varieties.-By Pref. w. L. Hutchen-
son, Clemson College.