The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-02


visiting. He estimates that he will
make at least 80 bushels an acre
or more and he is one OF those
who made a side application OF
300 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer
lust before he laid by the crop.
M. E. Hollowell of Nash county
saws five corn demonstrations in
that county are doing exception
ally we'll and show an excellent
stand. The five men growing this
corn are comparing the new plan
with their old methods and it ap-
pears that the new is better than
the old.
Jim Marsh of Lee county reports
that four farmers who are growing
corn according to the new plan
are pleased with what is happen
ing in their fields. Along with the
regular fertilizer under the corn,
these four men also used from 4OO
to 500 pounds of nitrate OF SODA as
a side application. Some of them
also added 100 pounds of lnuriate
of potash per acre where the corn
is being grown on potash deficient
soils.
But crops are good over all OF
Lee county. Another good rain
would help because most farmers
fortified all their crops, especially
the tobacco, heavier than usual
this season and more rain is need
ed. The corn crop also was fertl-
lizer heavier than in the past and
most of it looks extremely good
at present. The recent hot, dry
weather has been favorable to cot
ton, although it is late, as is the
case over most Of North Carolina.
Lespedeza planted in the small
grain last February is not doing
so well. In many fields, the dry
weather of March practically de-
stroyed the young seedlings and
it is only where sod has beer
on the land for two or three years
that any good lespedeza is found
D. F. Richardson of Randolph
1 county says his corn is excellent
despite the dry weather. He is an
Il other farmer who is conducting
one of the demonstrations in how
to increase acre yields. Mr.. Rich
i ardson is a great believer in sweet
| clover and has a field of II acres
| in which the sweet clover will av
erage six feet high. Bees like tc
gather the nectar from this clover
and so Mr.. Richardson has moved
all of his hives over next to the
field. This, he reckons, will save
labor in harvesting the honey. He
/ saved labor also in harvesting g
' five-acre field of oats by the sim
pie expedient of turning his herd
of beef cattle onto the grain rather
than harvesting it with the COM
bine. Mr.. Richardson believes in
saving labor in every way possible
in these days when every farmer
has more than he can do.
One of the best fields of corn
in Catawba County is being grown
by E. P. Johnson of Banoak Town
ship. This crop was top dressed
with 200 pounds of nitrate of soda
when the corn plants were two and
one-half feet nigh and Farm Agen'
Earle Brintnall ssays the corn is
not only large for the time of the
year but it is also strong ane
| sturdy, with a rich, dark greer
color, and with big, thick, fatsideo
stalks. Mr.. Johnson is conf1den
that he will get nice acre ylele
from this field.
The johnson corn has suckeret
rather heavily, however, and this
has been troubling the farmer con
siderably. Tests show that remov
ing the suckers almost always re
duces the acre yield, and RICH
now he does not think he will re
move them unless the weather get!
unusually dry in July and August
Gates county FARMERS are get
ting their first skirmish in the wal
with the chinch bug. Tom Jones
of the Parker's Church neighbor
hood, near Corapeake, and Calud'
Savage of near Gatesville cam
in to see Farm Agent John Art;
last week with a story about SOM
kind of bug damaging three acre
of corn to such an extent that i
was falling over dead. Lane
Smith came in little later witt
| a similar story in which he de
| scribed how a fast-moving arm.
OF destructive insects was com
pletely running one of his corr
fields, Mr.. Artz was able to identi