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E.. M. WILLIAMSON'S CORN METHODS. "Southern Corn for the South" For a number of years after I"b 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 foot, 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 (lid 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 1 beginn 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 obtiined from its use as a top 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 acre, 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 neres which had produced the year before 1.000 pouids seed cotton per acre. This land is sandy upland, somewhat rolling. Seasons were unfavorable, owing to the tremendous rains in May and the dry and extremely hot weather late e. From June 12th to Julv 12th. ti time when it most needed moistm. there was only*v five-eights of an ipeh of rainfall here; yet with $7.011 cost of fertilizer, my yield was Affy-two bushels per acre. Row* /were six feet and corn sixteen/in'ches in drill. With this method/on land that will 'arily producc 1,000 pounds of otton wiq /.00 pounds of fer fifty b)Ifshels of corn per acre d b<e ate by using 200 po linds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of cid phosphate, and 400 pounds of ainit mixe , or their equivalent in ther fertili .or, and 125 pounds of . tirjte of soda, all to b)e usedl as side pplication as directed belowv. On land tihat will make a hale and nc-half offecotton per acre when wecll ertilized, A hundred bushels of corn hould be produced by doubling the mount of fertilizor above, except iat 300 pounds of nitrate of soda ould be0 used. n each case there should be left and in corn stalks, peas, vines ts from $12 to $16 worth Ii/'ng material per acre, be at benefit to the land o 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 requires a soil than corn, and il is essential to its ,it will not produce open land where land thoroughly 1 will not only than a shallowv si, but it wvill as more dry orn crop, at dur r than r* if trn 'rd t r wa een chonned, InI in pea vines it will not choko or raf,. Never plow land when it is wet. if Von expect ever to bave any use for it nenin. Bed with turn plows in six-foot rows. lea%virt five-inch bWlk. Whnn ready to p, nt. break this out with ,cotter, foll -vin! in bottom of this Currow (loep wvith Dixic plow. winl taken off. Ridgen then on .this fur row with spme plow,AN still going deep. I1n cort pill'iter on this ridge, drop pini on -ruain every five or si.x miehles. PlInt early, as sooun as frot langer a inst say first s?asonable 4iIll n fter lareh 15th, in this section. P'.Il)aeia!ly is earli, planting necessairy a very rich Intids where stalks can rot otherisitP be nreveited from rowin too hirGe. Give first working w;it barrow lr any plow that will lot covve ihv p!anit. For second w'o rk in i,r. i-e ten or twelve-incli ;Weln on hoi!, sides of corn, whici 4,i11ld now ihe abont ei'lit inches ii:h.' Thin after this working. It is 10t neevssar.y that the plants should be left all the same distance apart if the right number remain to enc yard or row. Corn shouhl not he worked tain Imtil the gmoth ha. been ro refarlded Id the s!talk e. hmrdenled that it will NIVer ow too Inrt-e. This is the most ( diflierIt poi!t in1 t0he whole pro :ess. Epr*V*iee riot jIigmen - re101ired to know jr..:4t how nim II thI 1k shculd be stintest. and plenltN 1' nerve is reqcuired To hold baek voPI orn l wh!n your *,1Meighbors. vIo 'rr. ilzed at ri'ting timne anrd enitiv.f ?d irapidlv, I-'ve Corn tvice fl,e ': of yours. (They are having their rirn now. Yourrs will com. at harvest ime.) The richer the l:nd ithIe nore ecessary it is tlat lie sItinting pro lvl: should be thoroie-hlv done. When you are convineed that your orn has hewr sif.irien! l l hum ii fetd vou mar berin to mnke the car. TI h l,now 1- forrm6+-o ,eni inches high. and look worse than i'ol have ever had airy corn to look )efore. Put half of yonr mixed fertilizer 'this being the first used at all) inl be old sweep-furrov on both sides if everyv other middle. and cover bv >reaking out this middle with irn )low. About one week later t reat ire other middle fthe same wav. Vithin a few days side corn inl first niddl.e with sixteen-ineli sween. Put 11 yonr nitrate of soda in this fur.. ow. if less than 150 pounds. If more se one-half of it now. Cover wit hi Me furrow of finrn11 plow. then sow Pease in the miidle broadenst at the -ate of at least one bushel to the Cr1, and finish breaking out. In a few flavs side corn in other niddle wvith same sweep. put balance f nitrate of soda in this furrow if t has been divided cover with tirn low, sow peas and break out. This ays by your crop, with a good bed nd plenty of dirt around your stalk. 'his should be from ,lune 10th to 20th unless season is very late, and corn hould be hardly bunching for tassel. Lay by early. More corn is ruined >y late p-lowing than by lack of plow nrg. This is w~hren the car is hrrt. ['wo good rains after laying by should nake you a good cr'op of cor'n. and t will certainly make with murch less 'ain than . was required in the 01(d vay. Tire stalks thuns raised are veryv mall arid do not require anything ike tire moisture even in pr'oportiorn o size, that is necessarv for lar'ge rappy stalks. Threy may, threrefore, e left much thicker in thre row. This s no new process. It has long been custom to cut back v'ines and trees n order to increase the yield and( iluality of fruit; and so long as you 1o not hold back your corn, it will ~o, like inre so long went, all to italk. Do not be discoraged by thre looks )f your corn during tire pr-ocess of miltivation. It will yield out of all >roportion to its appearance. Large rtalks cannot mnal.e lar'ge yileds, ex rept with extremely favorable sea sorns, for they cannot stanrd a lack of noistre. Eairly applications of man ire go to make lar'ge stalks, which you do riot want, and( tihe plani. food s all thurs used rup before tIre ear, which you do want, is made. Tahl rtalks not only will not. produrce well hemselves, burt will nrot allowv you to nake. tihe pea vines. s0 necessary t -e impr'ovement of land. Corn rais ~d by this method shorrld never gro~ >ver' .'evenr arnd one-half feet hri2h, mnd tihe ear should be near to thre T considecr the final application of ritrafe of soda an essenrtial point in this oar-making pr'ocess. It shoulid inlways be applied at last plowving md rurmixed with other fertilizers. I am satisfied with one ear to tine stalk uniless a pr'olifie variety is planted, arnd leave a hrurdr'ed stalks for every bushel that I expect tc make. I find tire six-foot row easiest to cultivate withIout injiuring tire corn. For fifty burshrels to thre acr'e I leave it sixteen inchres apart; for seventy five burshels to the acre, -twelve in aires nnnrt and for nne hrrndied knhiu. els, eight inches apart. Corn should he planted from four fo six inche below the level and hill by from four to six inches above. No hoeing should be necessary. and middles may be kent'clean until time break out, by using barrow or by rinnin one shovel furrow in centre of niidle an(d bedding on that with one or more rounds of turn plow. I would advise only n few acres tried by this method the first year. or until you are fnmiliar witi its apli cation. Especially is it iard at first. to fully carry out the stntin,, provess where a whole crop is imnNolved, and this is the absolutely essential part of the process. This wethod T have applied, or seen annlied successfully to all kinds of land in thi., section. we.,pi wet lands and moist bottoms. and I am confident it enl he mande of !rr(ert benefit throtrhouit. the entire Soluti. In tie Ilidlel West. wheCre Cortn is so prolific and profitable. and where. infortuna tel v for ts, so mCh of olns has been prodit-ed. th!- stalk dces noe natuiralv girow N-.rtre. As we comte Sonthl iff4 s;;e inervnse S. nf tho e 11ens' of the ear. tntil it) Cnha. and Ne(o. it is Ieari-hy all stalk (wit ne Mexienn anis.) Tihe p o Ili' m ed d is Ic climinate thiq ff,n1enev < f co,-n ff overgrowth at the ex:pwicese of yield i thiis Sol'Itern clinate. 1r this method T hve mnde m, corn erop more proPtable than mi votton crop. an'l Iy\ neizhbors On 1 Friends who have -Idopfed it have without exception, der;ved great ben efit tlierofron. Plant your own seefl. T wonld no, advise a chionge of seed and mietho the same year. as you will not the know from which ou have derive-' the benefit. T hnve usedl three v riti.?s and all have done well. I ho nlever uisled Ithis method for late plan' in .. Tn fact, T flo not (Ivise t. late pllnntitn of corn. unless it b neeessary for col lowlands. The increased cost of laior an ihe high -ice of mnterial and lnn-' are rapidi,- making farming unprofi table, except to those who are gettin, from one nere what they formnie-1 got from two. We must. make our lands richer by plowing deep, plant ing peas and other legumes, manuring them with acid phosphate and potash, which are relatively chenp, and ro turning to the soil the re.ttltant vege table matter rich in hiits and ex pensive nitrogen. The needs of our soil are such that the South can nPv eI real) the full measure of prosperity that. 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. k AVER 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 cle in the way of Venezuela making her peace with other nations. Five hunodred 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. AdIvices from Caracas say that the people in all parts of the country wel come the policy of Pr'esident Gomez. Patrick T. Alexander, an English experimenter. pr'edictedi that aero nauts would learn to fly without mo tors. It was announced at Buffalo that the foot and mouth disease quaran tine in New York State had beeni mod ified. Eleven men were killed in a riot at Tungan, twenty miles north of Ainoy, following an endeavor to enforce the anti-opiutm edict. Venezuelans freed fronm political prisons at Maracaibo touched at Car acao on their way to Caracas and were enthusiastically received. Tihe Central Federated Union in New York City passed resolutions pro esting against the sentencing of Gom pers, Mitchell and Moirrison 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. rMost people understand that the f lacintg of a marble in a '<e'ttle pre 1 nits furring, but fewv seem to know ~ttat a large, clean marbie boiled ini milk, porridge, custards, sauces or1 stews will automaticall:y do the stir'ring as the liquid cooks. Any chanice of burning wvill lbe prevented andl' thus the fatigure of constani.ly stirr\ng andl the cook's time can be savetf as by this means the cook '-an be at.ending to other things instead, of having to ..give her whto'un Snil ottion to n.Bso ot SOUTH CAROLI News of Interest Gleaned Fro . Arranged For REOEIVER FOR SEMINOLE. Judge Watts Hears Argument and Sees no Other Way to Protect the Stockholders. Cheraw, Special. - Judge Watts Tuesday night, after hearing the ar guments, announced that he would appoint receivers for the Seminole Securities company in acordanrce with the request of .. C. Klugh. He st ated that onll. the allegations miade Ie was sati!Aled that there should be an in vestigationi of the affairs that could only be done by a receiver. ''t it be true,'' said Judge Watts. "wtt these commissions we paid, it sLoc!ks my1N censc;eice. Of Coiur-so, it is a bad blow, but I see no other rened v.'' Tihe hond was fixedl at -$510,010 for the receivers and $150,000 for 1lhe Nv11h,10 of the property. Messrs ILcler. Sinkler and Frank G. Tonmpkins were sug"ested by the attorneys for the pain1tiffs and others may be s gsted by the attornevs for the de'14ndants W e(dnes(lav. 'ihe case was a long one. but very interesting. Thie plassenger bet wefii the attorneys. ithe allegations Made an danswers retiried, the artrii meIts, were al listened to closvlv. The argument of attorneys for Klugh was that the Seminole company was a mere shell and for the protection (if' the stockholders the receivers should take charge. The argument. of attor neys for the trustees was that the trustees were not responsible for the action of some of the agents and that no case had been made out; also that there was protection inside the com pany that had never been asked. The argument of Mr. Bellinger for the Seminole CompanY was that tle alle gations were irrelevant and there was protection inside the company for the stockholders. Judge Watts said in part:' ''I am of the opinion that justice impera tively demands that a receiver should be appointed. I think that under i showing made that, it is an excep to all cases that have been before supreme court and the allegation I is that the stock was purchased f: the Southern Life at an extravag price, the price doubly more thian was worth. and T think that mat should be looked into and I unih tatingly say that the commissi' paid shocks my conscience. If Il are true it is a shock to anY businv man in the world. As to whether not it is true I do not know. I w not saying that it is so or not. It is an allegation made here before me and I realize the fact that whenever you put a corporation in the hands of a receiver you strike a had blow but the directors and president broul0ht this state of affairs on themselves, and it is high time that tihe strong hand of tle court should interfere and allow the matters to he investi gated1 by a receiver and( let whatever assets t hat can be recoveredl be put in the hands of the court for thle stockholders. ''I will hear nomninat ions for the receiver.'' Judge Watts Wednesday an nounme ed the appointment of three k'rstees for the Seminole Company: F. 0. Tompkins, E. J. Etheridge arid HIueer Linker. The st ockholders on Wed1nesday' met in Columbia and accepted thle resignation of the 01(1 directors. The, meeting adlopted( thle following: Resolved, That the board of diree tors to be elected today proceed at once to colleet all evidence of criminral action on the part of arty agent, of ficer's or emnploves of the Semninoli Securities Company, arid iriy fire samni before t he State's Atitorniey General and request that whlerever thIe evi dence jusf ies, criminal procedinrgs Shot at Mark, Killed Boy. Lancaster, Special.-A negro boy about eight years (old, a sorn of Net tic Evans, wvas accident ly shot and kill ed. in the subuirbs of town Saturday by Amon Lindsay, a young whlite man. Mr'. Lindsay was shoot ig at a mark, anid did niot see thre child. Christmas at Walterboro. 'Walteorboro, Special.-Chr istmas passed off quietly in WalterborQ, with no c'asualties r'epor'ted so far. T!iN closing of the disp)ensary b I Fishburrne forced t1i I people who ao " ' .n ing oni this .--0i. andl 'onise-quei.t - mnas. On all . ..us words of 'ormmnidat iu starid taken by MaDyor F'ishh: *' . ' it has been ani excellent I '1-:'~ argument. TIre me(''rcats . in ri rd-breakinrg business and r i hem aser'ibe t hi i hn tr (lOs . di , m m - r,. NA NEWS ITEMS m AH Sections of the State and. Busy Readers be instituted; and that the directors do give careful attention to pusling ihe prosecution.'' The body then elected as new diree fors, R. T. Caston, Cheraw; Cannpell Courteney, Newry; T. W. 1erry, Latta; E. J. Etlheridge, Leesville; A. M. Kennedy, Williston; .1. B. Wat kins, of Florida; Julian S. .i'rr. of Nortit Carolina; S. M. Simiti, of West Virginia; C. M. Snelling . of Atliens, C a. Mch blame is attached to the trustees of the Seminole Company whoso names gave confidnilce to tlhe piblic. The examinat ion of tle trustees revealed the fact tait Mr. Clnrlk had applied for 1.000 sliares of stock bit had never paid anyt hing; that Mr. Bryan never had amN stoek ad tlhat General Jones sub.seribed for' oily 200 shares. Alreal at tolleYs are being- stiployed to bring individual suits agaiinst the three. NEGRO CAUGHT SATURDAY. Ma.n Named Johnson Arrested on the Charge of Committing Criminal Assault at Hartsville. 11artsville, Special.-It semes that the inegro brute wvlho committed tle out rage t. this place oi Monlay n iht last has been apprehienle(ld and is nlow within the penitentiary walls. It has been a terrible week - itt and disappointiment to every 0, citizen of Ilartsville as the days pass ed and the nany clues gave Io re suilts and tile miaiv suspmects taild to be indentified by the lady. Entag ed and determined that tlie crime should not go uniavenged if atty iu main agency could aecomplish I he de teetion and arrest of the eiiminal, every man has felt more and more hopeless and bafiled is each succeed s\ tIe. it. fie"ro nimei(t 1ottnson was arrested at Effingham Salturda norn ing by Sheriff Burch, of' Florence, acting with Policeman See.-Iais of this place and Mr. Ed Perry, a brothier of the victim's husband. The itnegro was taken to Florence and thence to Dar lington, where lie was turned over Saturday night. to Sieriff Blackwell at o'clock. It was proposed to britng him here for identilieat ion, but ho authiori ties hiete fea red t rouible and adhvisedh Shietiff Black well to kovp htim at D)arlingt on. Later on, acting on further advices from htete that a threatening crowd was waiting to get sight. of the negro, Sheriff Blackwi') dirove to Florence at 2 o'clock in thft morning and thtere took the 4 oco train for Columbia. A erowvd mt e rain coming in here at 9 o 'clock Srgt ur-day nuight and it is pretty certajn wvould have made short work of the negro at oncte. Indceed, manty of them believed that thle negro had been tak ent off t he t rain oin the oiitIskirits of town and was somewhere arountd, and all night nd all (lay Siuday eirowds of mni hav'e bteen 'onigr'egated arouu~d to wn amiuait inig deve lopmienits an td atnx otts to IocatIe thle brutte. Thtere 'ins ntever any', iten(ti Onti on t pit .of thle town authiorities to allowv the man to he broiughtI here. Fatal Christmas Frolic. Lexington, Special.-( arfield I to lies beneatIh thle soil an ithi ('ra ft is languishitng behtind thle int thle L,exinigtotn jili as a rest' the (hitmatins friol ic and the (ChI itas d ram. A uloomn haus beent overt I wo htotusehtolds, wich get tionis catnnot wipe out , ando thle lif a youngi.~ man once so full otf potmise, has been bligh -.i for'ev'r. Shot His Sistr"to Dea.th. Manning, N .. white man nameri I' i- Satuirdayi shot i . .' friotm w~hich * . . .a hourt. Mr's. h Alcult, bt had hien . a visit to her biot her. oni M,or W. T. Lessesne 's pinee. I"mi part ieularis are not obt aina:b le, hut ti.. is siid there had bteetn som' t,iis utnder'st anin g bet ween i thle liar! les oin accotunt of a hoist' that I rtiggers Itad, wItich belIon-uedI t o his siste. Mr's. Poseman h ad sai ohtood-.hvc and started for hom i wh ien 1Drhi eerP s sht(o 1 tt b it h : ,.'1-: e tl i ci b .l