The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-02-18
AlTERNATE.ROW CORN
PLANTING SUCCESS
Farmers Who Have Tried
System Praise 1t.
by Clarence Roberts In The Okla.
homa Farmer -Stockman.

hOmh Farmer 'otockmhh'
7 have vet 10 find man who COO
4 the practice Of planting corn IN
.-,natc rows with peas Or peanuts
! mean a man who has had some cS
pcriencc
On he other hand. the man who has
grown a crop by this method generally
claims II 10 be safe and profitable
farm practice For this method has
invariably paid the man who followed
1t out
But when YOU get ont into the coun-
try 10 look Tor the mcn who are grow
ing crops by the alternate method.
they are hard to find To adm, the
truth. this method hasn't spread any
: in the last two years IN Oklahoma,
Again every man who used this
method TO grow crops last year has a
profit 10 show. way and above what
he or hi, ncighborS made under the
usual method oi growing corn IN every
row.
Some 1918 Yields.
Consider some oi these experiences
u Oklahoma farmers
In Creek county Oklahoma. last
year ! X Town had field OF sandy
upland planted every other row to
corn. making the corn rows seven
feet apart with peanuts planted be-
tween The corn was planted the
usual time The peanuts were planted
May j.. The corn made twelve bush.
els. The peanuts ~ bushels Of nuts
and a half ton Of hay TO the acre.
Town lad corn on either side Of this
field planted in every row. On this
corn he made absolutely nothing. In
the wide rows he had the corn abou,
one stalk every two feet lie has
feed this winter
George Coke IN Cherokee county
grew corn m alternate rows with
'oybc7n, this wear j, was planted
the same aS Towns field. the soy
beans being planted May , The corn
made ,ly,een bushels The weld OF
SoyhcauS was conServa'iycly estimated
10 he six bushels and one and one
half tons OF hay 10 the acre lie grew
the mammoth yellow 'o,bean They
grew 10 al average height OF two and
half i,et Other corn on the same
kind Of land was almost total
failure. an occasional rubbin being
found
In Lincoln county southern part. K
J.. Forbes put a small field 10 corr
ard peanuts IN 1918 The peanuts
were estimated to have made twenty
bushels The corn made six bushels.
On exactly the same kind OF land.
corn in three and a half foot rows
made nothing. complete iizl!e. Six
bushels isn't much corn. but il is luS,
that much more than was raised BY
Forbes and other farmers in the mar
row rows Ernest Key in the sam,
county, club member, had two acre,
10 peanuts and corn The corn made
seventeen bushels and the peanut,
l35 bushels. Other corn PRACTICAL,
failed
Other Crops in Alternate Rows.
Fletcher Reid OF Pontotoc count,
nut field OF good bottom land (,
corn and peas IN alternate rows las,
year. The corn made thirty five bush.
els The peas were planted too late
and made only a heavy yine growth
which furnished an abundance Of pas.
lure. Other Land on Reds farm. Put
all to corn and given the same chance
made twenty-five bushels ot corn
In Iutlawliomic county. A u
Clark put eleven acres ~ cotton and
peanuts last year. lie pickel >iy
? bales OF cotton and dug 2OO buShel,
OF peanuts Oft the field As a chccl
10 find II TN, method was paying h,
had a ticld OF twenty three acres OF
d the same kind oi land ani given Nh,
same chance From the ,wcN, ,hrc,
acres he gathered less cotton ihan n.
. did from the eleven acres. 10 say moth
inV of the 2ol bushels of peanut, an.
the hav
Clark, SON. Albert working as
club member last wear. put ont Al
acre ol cotton anl peanut, IN alter
nate rows Reside, a inc ,rop u
peanuts, he gathered 1900 pound, o
seed cotton from that acre. rhl
was not the first time that big Weld
have been made hy growing cotton il
alternate rows with peanuts ON IN
good land IN Pottawa,omis county. h
L Moore. the county agent. has bee
working with the boy, iur the Ia,
Tour year, IN growing cotton, as we
ms corn m alternate rows with cilhe
pcaS, potatoes, or peanuts Since l9l
'he boys have been abl. TO JUS, doubl
the Weld OF cotton when grown