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E. M. WILLIAMSON'S CORN METIHODS. "Southern Corn for the South" For a number of years after I "be. gan to farm, I followed the old-time method of putting...the fertilizer all under the corn, planting on a level higher, six by three feet, pushing the plant from the start and making a big stalk, but the ears wore few, and, frequently small. I planted much corn in the spring and bought much more corn the next spring, until fi nally I was driven to the conclusion that corn could not be made on up lands in this section, certainly not by the old method, except at a loss. I did not give up, however, for I knew that the farmer who did not make his own corn never had sue ceeded, and never would, so I began to experiment. First I planted low er, and the yield was better, but the sta!k was still too large; so I discon tinued altogether the application of fertilizer before planting, and, know ing that all crops should be fertilized as a side application, and applied the more soluble nitrate of soda later, being guided in this by the excellent results obtained from its use as a lop dressing for oats. Still, the yield, though regular, was not large, and the smallness of the stalk itself now suggested that they should be planted thicker in the drill. This was done the next year, with results so satis factory that I continued from year to year to increase the number of stalks and the fertilizer with which to sus tain them; also to apply nitrate of soda at last plowing, and to lay by early, sowing peas broadcast. This method steadily increased the yield, until year before last (1904), with corn eleven inches apart in six-foot rows, and $11 worth of fertilizer to the acre, I made eighty-four -bushels average to the aere, several of my best acres making as much as 125 bushels. Last year (1905) I followed the same method, planting the first week in April, seventy acres which had produced the year before 1.000 pounds seed cotton per acre. This land is sandy upland, somewhat rolling. Seasons were unfavorable, owing to the tremendous rains in May anld the dry and extremely hot weather late -. From June 12th to Julv 12th., th time when it most needed moishml, there was only five-eights of an i'"eh of rainf'all here; yet with $7.011 cost of fertilizer, my yield was 1fy-two bushels per acre. Row. f were six feet and corn sixtceririches in drill. With this methodVon land that will ,arily produef 1,000 pounds of otton wit,4^00 pounds of fer fifty bfIshels of corn per acre d b Kade by using 200 polinds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of eid phosphate, and 400 pounds of ainit mixeo, or their equivalent in ther fertiliker, and 125 pounds of , tirpte of soda, all to be used as sideO pplication as directed below. On land 4hat will make a bale and ne-half of (otton per acre when wecll ertilized, ai hundred bushels of cor*n hould be produced by doubling the mount of fertilizer above, except 2at 300 pounds of nitrate of soda ould beC used. n each ease there should be left and in corn stalks, peas, vines ta from $12 to $16 worth lir'ng material per acre, be at benefit to the land e an amount of vege The place of this in t improvement of land taken by commercial it is absolutely impos lands rich as long as ing in vegetable mat be thoroughly and for corn, and this is system of rotation to I. Cotton reqluires a soil thian corn, and il is essential to its -,it ;;ill no,t produce open land( where landl thoroughly 1 will not only than a shallow s, but it will as more dry orn crop, ast dlur r than r if irn 'rd g inder with i een chconned. Pn4 in pea vines it will not choke or drar. Never plow land when it is wet. if you expect ever to have any use for it aizain. Bed with turn plows in six-foot rows. leaving five-ineh balk. When ready to plant. break this out with seotter, followimr in bottom of this filrow deep with Dixie plow, wing taken off. Ridre then on . this fur row With Svlle plow, still going deep. Wil, calii ' iter on this ridge, drop .'bv ono Iratin overy fi ve or six inches. P lt earlV, as soon as froqt danzer ;3 1)'ast. sav first seasonable siwll vfter Mareh 15th, in this section. 1-iweia!fy is earlv planting necessary on very rich lands wherv stalks can not btheiwise he nrevented from Vrowi.,1V too in. Give first workimr with harrow or any plow that will not cover Io ' p!antI. For second w-orkin.-.i use tenl or twelve-ineh sweenl oil hot!, sides of Corn, wihielh sh-oild now he aillt eit-ht illhes bi ' Thin after this working. It is not neeessary%' that the plants should toe left all the saei distance apart if the right, nunmber rerain to each yard or row. Corn should not lie worked we-ain int il the hrov. a h hn.; beeni o ie arded and tile !dt.k 'o hardened thmi it w I never !!r!o. too Inre. This is the MoNt diffiellt point inl the whole pro C e s s . E !I v*:er i I c e n o t j id -ml ie i t e i I(iired to kIoV ji-st how m10 h1 t h. st:lk shilld be shinteq,. and plentN of nerv is Ircquir-vl to hobl hok Vmw C0111 Whven your n hbors. w fin fi11ed ft pl ting time .a1- etl iv.f ed rapidly, h-ve corn twie tI'O *i--n of yours. (TheY are havin- their fun now. Yours will come at harvest time.) The richer th land fhe more necessary it is tatiw v stunting pro ee:s should be thorowhfv done. When you are eoniviieed that vour corn has been snf.iieir iv huili"Iteui. you may becin to make the car. If should nlow 1- forroy -,. ecn inches hi<h. and look worse than you have ever had any corn to look before. Put half of y,our mixed fertilizer (this being the first used at all) in the old sweep-furrow on both sides of every other middle. and cover byN breaking out this middle wit hi t un plow. About one week later trent tihe other middle te same wvayv. Within a few days side corn in fir;t middle with sixteen-inch sween. Put all your nitrate of soda in this f!r rAw, if less than 150 pounms. If more use ole-half of it now. Cover\ with one furrow of filun plow. 11hen sow r ense in the middle broade.st at the rate of at least one bushel to the acre, and finish breaking out. In a few davs side eorn in other Middle with same sweep, put balance of nitrate of soda in this furrow if it has been divided cover with irn plow, sow peas arid break out. This lays by your crop, with a good bed ind pleitv of dir around your stalk. This should be from .7une 10th to 20th unless season is very late, and corn should be hardly bunehing for tassel. Lay by early. More corn is ruined by late plowing than by lack of plow ing. This is wh'len the ear is hur't. Two good rains after taying b)y should make you a good crop of corn. and it w'ill certainly make with much less rain than .was required in the old way. The stalks thus raised are very small and do not require anything like the moisture even in propor'tion to size, that is necessarv for large sappy stalks. They may, therefore, be left much thicker in the row. This is no newv process. It has long been a custom to cut back vines and trees in order to increase the yield and quality of fruit; and so long as you do not bold back your corn, it will go, like mi'ne so long went, all to stalk. Do not be discouraged b)y lhe looks of your corn during the pr,ocess of cultivation. It will yield out of all proportion to its ap)pearanlce. Large stalks cannot make large yileds, ex cept with extremely favorable sea sons, for they cannot stand a lack of moisture. Early applications of man ure go to make large stalks, wvhich you do not want, ando the plant food is all thus used up before the ear:. which you do want, is made. Talk stalks not only will not. produce well~ themselves, but will not allow vou to make-. the pea vines, so necessary t4 the improvement of laud. Corn raisi edl by t his method should niever grows over e~veni and one-half feet hIigh,1 and te ear should be near to the ground'. I consider tihe final application of uit.rate of soda an essenitial point in this oar-making process. It should 4always be applied at last plowing and unmixed with other fertilizers. I am satisfied with one ear to the stalk unless a prolifie variety is planted, and leave a hundred stalks for every bushel that I expect to make. I fund the six-foot row easiest to cultivate withbout injuring the corn. For fifty bushels to the acre I leave it sixteen inches apart; for seventy.. five bushels to the acre. -twelve in ches nnart. nnr for one hiundrrna bnen.. els, eight inches apart. Corn should be planted from four to six inches below the level and hi, by from fonr to six inches above. No hoeing should be necessary. and middles may he kent clean uutil time break olit, by using harrow or by running one shovel furrow in centre of' middle and bedding on that with one or more roinds of turn plow. I would advise only a few acres trind by this method the first year. or until you are familiar with its atnli. cation. Especially is it l'ard at. first., to fully Carry out tle sifinin" proves" where a whole crop is involved, and this is .the absolutely essential part of f lie process. This rellhod T have npplied. or 5een anplied succe'ssfIIlly to all kinds of land in tlii- seetion. co-pi wet land! anld moist bottoms, and I am co'Ifident it can be nm11de of !rent benefit thronirhout the entire Soith. In thle middel West. whlere corn is so mrolifie mnd profitahie. andl where. 1nnfortnunnelv for us. so much of oin,-s ias been prodlmiod. thei stalk dues it,, natuirallv grow -i1rtre. As we comlie South its s.;.e ineress. 11 the ex 1on1se of the ear. nt0 if) ('uba. atnl Me;eo. it is nwatly dil stac lk (wit nes Moien vaie(ties.) The puirlose ef' 11his ine-fLd is Ie eliminato this Iecener of C-n overgrowth at Ile e:)ense of yield itr this Soifhern elimni. By this mnetltod T have mnade mt, corn erop more proftible than nili ention crop. and mr neirhbors oi' Friends wrho have vfIoWted it have without exeoption, derved great ben efif therefrom. Plant your own seed. I wonld nw advise a change of seed and metho' the same yenr-. as yon will not tlie, know from which you have derive, th bene-fit. T have used three v: riti.?s and ,ll have done well. T ha' never us1ed this method for late plan' in . Tn fiet, T do not advise t. late pl!intnz of corn. unless it b ilecessary for eold lowlands. The increased cost of ilor an lie high price of mnterin and lan are rapidly makinz farming unprofi fable, except to those who are zettin, from one nere what they forme got from two. We must make our lands richer by plowing deep, plant ing peas and other legumes, manuring them with acid phiosphate and potash, which are relatively cibep, and re turning to the soil tile re.ultant vege table matter rich in humus and ex pensive nitrogen. The needs of our soil are such that. tle South can nPT er real) the full ieasure of prosperity liat. should be hers until this is done. I give this method as a farmer to the farmers of the South, trusting that thereby they may be benefitted as I have 1-n. E. L .LVER WILLIAMSON. NEWSY GLEANINGS. .Tohn T. Fay, mind reader, com mitted suicide in Oakland. Cal. Dr. Paul is to settle the disputes between Venezuela and France and Holland. Plans were made for America's army of occupation to begin to evacu ate Cuba. Castro said he should put no obsta ele in the way of Venezuela making her peace with other nations. Five hundred guests attended the dinner of the Pan-American Scientific Congress at Santiago de Chili. The American Roentgen Ray So ciety completed plans for its three days' convention in New York City. Advices from Caracas say that the people in all parts of the country wel come the policy of President Gomez. Patrick T. Alexander, an English experimenter, predicted that aero nauts would learn to fly without mo tors. It was announced at Buffalo that the foot and mouth dlisease quaran tine in New York State had been mod ified. Eleven men were killed in a riot at Tungan, twenty miles north of Amoy, following an endeavor to enforce the anti-opium edict. Venezuelans freed from political prisons at Maracaibo touched at Car acao on their way to Caracas and were enthusinstienlty received. Tihe Central Federated Union in New York City passed resolutions pro0 esting against the sentencing of Gom pers, Mitchell and Morrison to jail. Fears of a Balkan outbreak are 'Aubsiding in London. The opinion is expressed in authoritative quarters that there will be no general election. Jewish families are being expelled from Finland, and a bill has been in troduced in the Diet forbidding the Hebrew method of slaughtering ani mals.. AUTOMATIC STIRRING. Most people understand that the flacing of a marble in a '<wttle pire knts furring, but few seem to know tat a large, clean marble boiledl in\ milk, porridge, custards, sauces or1 stews will autematicahl:y do the stim'ring as the liquid cooks. Any chance of burning will be prevented and'l thus the fatigue of constani.ly stirr\.ng and the cook's time can be save< as bhy this means the cook 'aan be at, ending to other things instead, of ha1ving to give her wvho"m im/3 nn,crsboru ta one-I_rseinnP nr. SOUTH CAROL News of Interest Gleaned Pi( Arranged Foi itEcEiVER FOR SEMINOLE. Judge Watts Hears Argument and Sees no Other Way to Protect the Stockholders. Cheraw, Special. - Judge Watts Tuesday night, after hearinlg the ar gu'ients, announced that he would appoint receivers for the Seminole Securities company ii acordance with the request of .. C. Klugh. Ile stated that on. the alle '-gations made lie was satisfldi that there shouild be an in vestipgatioln of the affairs that col onilv be done by a receiver. 'It' il be tiue,'' said Judge Watts, "t mt these Commissions were paid, it shove! my1N. ce-nscielee. Of (ourso, it is a bad blow, bit I see io oiehel reieid v.' Tie bond was fixed at $50.W10 Io the reevivers and $150,000 fir II I valze of tihe property. Messrs livne-er ISinlkler anld Frantk G. Tornmpkinis werr sugrstIed by tle attorneys for t1h piinltitf.1fs and otli Ies ay be suig"ested by the attorneYs for thi defendant. W(dnecsday. The ease was a lontg one. but very inter-estinig. The passen"ers between the attornVs. the allegations made an danswers retitrned, tle art ments, were all listened to closelv The argument of attorneys for Ki,ug1 was that the Seminole cotpany wa a mere shell and for the protection of the stockholders the receivers shioul take charge. The argument, of attot neys for the trustees was that th< trustees were not responsible for th< action of some of the agents and thai no ease had been made out: also thai there was protection inside the corn. pany (hat had never been asked. Th< argunient of Mr. Bellinger for ti Seminole company was that the alle. gations were irrelevant and there was protection inside the company for tie stockholders. Judge Watts said in part: ''I ain of the opinion that justice impera lively demands that a receiver shnil be appointed. I think that under showing made that it is an xecep to all cases that have been before supreme court and the allegation I is (lint. tlie stock was purchased f: the Southern Life at an extravap price, the price doubly more than was, worth. and Ithink that mat should be looked into and I unih tatingly say that t lie commissi. paid shoeks my conscience. If fl are triue it is a shock to anY busil man in tihe world. As to whether not it is true I do not know. I not saying that it is so or not. It is an allegation mande here before ine and I realize the fact thAt whlenev#i you pit a corporation inl the hands of a receiver you strike a1 bad blow bIut the directors and president brlouht this state of affairs oii themliselves, and it is high time that the stro hand of tile court, should interfere and allow the matters to be investi gated by a receiver- and( let whtatever assets that cain be r-ecovered he put in the hands oft the count for the stockhtolder-s. ''I will hear nomninatijolts for the receiver-.' Judge Watts Wednesday announne ed the appointment of thtree trustees for the Seminole Company: F. G. Tompkins, E. J. Ether-idge and HIugei Linker. The st ockholders on Wednesdas met in Colnumbia and accepted Ih<t resignation of thle 01(d directors. TIn meeting adoptedi the following: Resolved, Thait thle boar-d of diiree tors to be elected today pr-oceedi at once to collect all evidence of criminal action on the par-t of any agent, otf ficers or eml)oyes of' the Sieminoh Seetuiities Comopanyi, anad lily thle sama before the State's Attorney Geneail and request thant wherever the evi dence just ifies, criminial pr-oceedinags Shot at Mark, Killed Boy. Laneast er, Special-A negro boy about e-ight y-ears (old, a sont of Nettlie Evans, wias accident ly shot and kill ed. in the subuirb)s of' townt Saturday by Amon Lindsay, a yonig whlite' main. MrI. Lindsay wvas shoot ing at a mark, antd did no(t see the child. Christmas at Walterboro. Waltor-boro, Special.-Chtristmas passed off qurietly in~ Walterboro, with noI enasualties i-eported so far. T. closing of the dispensary b'. Ma. JFishburnae forced t he .-. , .-i people who at . ..Qt.' ing ont this . b- ti oa arid -onisequenic ' - mans. Ont all . ~ wad of c-ontnendaidticsad ae by Mayior Fisl: - ~ithsb ant e'xcellent I 'l ~ . ruet The meireban ts - .idb'aia businiess and r ttaseile firistoI le -1~ . 4 ds wordsi.~ NA NEWS ITEMS n All Sections of the State and. Busy Reader be instituted; and that the directors do give careful attention to pushing the prosecution.' The. body then elected as new diree fors, R. T. Caston, Cheraw; amphell Courteney, Newry; T. W. 1vrrry, Latta; E. J. Etheridge, Leesvillv; A. M. Kennedy, Williston -.1. B. \Vat kins, of Florida; Julian S. Carr. of North Carolina; S. M. Smith, of West Virginia; C. M. Snelling . of Atliens, Mnch blame is attached to the trustees of the Seminole Coipany whose nalmes gave con!blience to th public. The examiaIt ion o f, t lie Irustces revealed the fact lh:a Mr. ( lark had applied for L000 shares 01' stock but had never paid aii hi ig; thIat Mr. Bryan never iad :Iv stocc 1111d that General Joies subscribed tor only 200 shares. Alrea4lv at toreii(ys are bin mployed 1to bring imdividual suits against th thrve. NEGRO CAUGHT SATURDAY. Man Named Johnson Arrested on the Charge of Committing Criminal Assault at Hartsville. ,l1artsville, Special.- -I sem's that tlie iegro brute who commit ted the oItrage at this place on Moiday iighit last, has been apprehended aid is now within the p(nitentiary vwalls It has been a terrible weekf. ,aiti and disappointment to every 00 Citizen of lartsville a1s the daYs pass ed 111d the maniy clues gave ino) re silts and the niay s1uSt1s .' failed to be indentified by the lady. Enirag ed and determined tlhat the eriie should not go unavenged if aniy hu mai agency could acComplish Ihe (e teetion and arrest of the criminal, every man has felt more and more hopeless and bafiled as each sieceed m. A iiegro nuii(i .ofinson was arrested at Effingliam Saturday morn ing- by Shieriff Burch, of Floroince, aeting Wilh Policeman Seegars oI' this place and Mr. Ed Perry, a brother of the victim's husband. The negro was taken to Florence and thence to Dar lingtoin, where he was turned over Satuirday niight to Sheriff Blackwell at 8 o'clock. It. was proposed to bring him here for identIilien tion, hut the authorities here fea red trouble anid adlvisedl Sheriff Blackwell to kop him at D)arlington. Later on, act ing on further advics from here that a threatening crowd was waiting to get sight of the negro, Sheriff Blackw Il dIrove to Florence at 2 0o'clock in the moirning and there took the 4 o 'cr t rain for Columbia. A crowd m.a e train coming in here at 9 o 'clock Srgt urday night arid it is p)rettfy certajn would have made short work of the niegroi at onice. Inideed(, many of them belhieved( that fte negro( had been tak eni (ff thle tra'ini oni the (liiskirts of' town anid was soimewhe(re around, and a1l1 nighnt andl all (lay Su 3(ny criowds oft meni hav'e been coniigreigate id ar'omad to1wnl aminaitinog developmtis anrd anx-. ions3 to locate the brute. There Was n1'eer any1 nt'tenio on01 3 the 1par t of to lbe brouight herei'. Fatal Christmas rrolic. Lexiingt on, Sp', jd.- Gari'eld I toi lies beneath the sod and11 'I h ('ra ft is laiguish ing behid t iiIhe in thle Lexington jani! as a r'esoil thle (Chi tmans frolic and the (h mas31 dramn. A gloom hats been oiver t wo households, wvhieb 'i ge' tionts tcanniot wipei ou,i and1( t'he li a yoiiig man on1ce so full of promise,. has1 been b)lighi1id foreiver. Shot His SIster to Dea.f.h. Manning, SM :.. A whit e man namerl :; .. Saturday shot S a liour. Mrs. . oi A (lli, but. had b o v isit to her brot1her'. oii Nt',tr WI. TI. L,essesine's place. Full part icular's are iiot obtainau:ble. bit, i.t is saiid thiere( had liii'i som)1. miS un iderstaLndi ng bet ween thle parties onl aceounmt. of a1 hors' that I)ri gerrs had (, whii'I ieb blinged to hiis 8ister. Mr's. Poseman hado c sa id tood1-bye arid sta rtedi for hiomei when 1Dri'rere i~~shot