The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 28, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
How to Raise Corn
The Experience of a Successful
Farmer?His Method
Promises to Revolutionize
Corn Growing.
Tlio fnllfnviniT urlii'ln u'ritton
by Mr. E. Mclver Williamson,
of Darlington county, and first
published in Ihe Uar'sville Mes
sender, is attracting attention
and receiving favorable comment
all over the state :
For a number of years after I
began to farm I followed the
oldtime method of putting the
fertilizer all under the corn,
planting on a level or higher, six
by three feet, pushing the plant
from the start .and making a big
stalk, but the ears were few and
frequently small. 1 planted
much corn in the spring a?>d
bought much more corn the
next, spring, until finally I was
driveu to the conclusion that
corn could not be made on uplands
in this sec'iou,certainly not
by the old method, except at a
loss.
I did not give up, however,
for I knew that the farmer who
did uot make his own corn never
had succeeded, and never would,
so 1 began to experiment. First,
1 planted lower, and the yield
was better, but the stalk was
still too large, so I o continued
altogether the application ot
fertilizer before planting, and,
knowing tliat all crops should be
fertilized at some time, I used
mixed fertilizer as aside applica
tion and applied the more
soluble nitrate of soda, later
being guided by the excellent results
obtained by its use as a toj
dressing for oats. Still the yield,
though regular, was not large,
and the smallness of the stalks
itself now suggested that they
should be planted thicker in the
drill. This was done the next
year with results so satistactory
ihat I continued from year to
>ear to increase the number ol
stalks and the fertilizer with
wtiich to sustain 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 11 inches apart in sixfoo'
rows and $11 worth of fertihz
r to the acre, 1 made 84
bushels average to the acre,
N several of my best acres making
as much as 125 bushels.
Last year, 1905, 1 followed
the same method, planting the
first week in April 70 acres
which had produced the year
before 1,000 pounds seed cotton
per acre. This land is sandy
upland somewhat rolling. Seasons
were very unfavorable, owing
to tho tremendous rains in
May, and the dry and extremely
hot weather later. From June
12 to July 12, the time when it
most needed moisture, there was
only 5-8 of an inch of rainfall
here; yet with $7.01 cost of fertilizer,
my yield was 52 bushels
per acre. Rows were six feet
and corn 16 inches in drill.
With tliis method, on land
that will ordinarily produce 1,
Department.
000 pounds of seedfcotton wiili
S00 pounds of fertilizer, 50
bushels of corn per acre shou d
be made by using 200 pounds ol
cottou seed meal, 200"pounds of
acid phosphate and 400 pounds
o! kainit mixed, or thoir equivalent
in other lertilizer, and 125
pounds of nitrate ot soda, all to
be used as side application a?
directed below.
On land that will produce a
bale and one-half of cotton per
acre when well fertilized 10O
bushels of corn should be pro
duced by doubling the amount
of lertilizer above,^except that
.100 pounds of nitrate of soda
should be used.
In each case there should be
left on the land in cornstalks,
peas, vines and roots from $12 to
$16 worth of fertilizing material
per acre, besides the great bene
tit to the land from] 90 large an
amount of vegetable matter. The
place of this in the permanent
improvement of laud can never
be taken by commercial lertilizer,
tor it is ^absolutely impos.
Bible to make fands rich as long
as they are lacking in vegetable
matter.
In preparing for the corn, land
should be broken broadcast during
the winter one-fourth deeper
than it has been plowed before,
I ?r l L 1 . < a. A. :
wr 11 uiucu vegeiaoiej maner i>being
turned under, it may be
broken one-third deeper. Thip
ih as much deepening as land will
usually stand in one year and
produce well, though it may be '
continued each year, so long as
much dead vegetable matter is
being turned under. It may,
however, be subsoiled to any
depth by following in bottom of
turn plow furrow, provided no
more of the sub-soil than has been
directed is turned up. Break
with two horse plough, if possi
ble, or better with disc plow.
With the latter cotton stalks or
corn stalks as large as we ever
make can be turned under with
out having been chopped, and in
peavines it will not chock or drag
Never plough land when it is
wet, if you expect ever to have
any use for it again.
Bed with turn plow in six-foot
rows, leaving five-inch'; balk.
When ready to plant, break this
out with scooter, following in ,
bottom of this furrow deep with
dixie plow, wing taken off. Ridge
then on this furrow with same
plow, still going deep. Run corn (
planter on this ridge dropping
one grain every live or six inches.
Plant early, as soon us frost dang
er is past, say first seasonable
spell after March 15th, in this |
section. Especially is early plant
ing necessary on very rich lands (
where stalks cannot otherwise be
prevented from growing too (
large. Give first working with
harrow or any plow that will not
cover the plant. For second
working, use 10 or 12 inch sweep
on both sides of corn, which
nhould now be albouteight inches
high. Thin after this working.
It is not necessary that the plants
should be left all the same distance
apart, if the right number
remain to each yard of row.
Corn should not be worked '
again until the growth has been ,
so retarded and the stalk so hard
ened that it will never grow too |
large. This is the most difficult j
point in the whole process. Ex- (
penence and judgment are required
to know ju&t how much
Consumption
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its use must be continuous.
We will send you a
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the stalk should be stunted, and
Dlentv of nerve is remiirpfl tn
hold back your corn when your
neighbors, who fertilized at plant
ing time and cultivated rapidly,
have corn twice size of yours.
[They are having their fun now
Yours will come at harvest time. |
The richer the land the more
necessary it is that the stunting
process should be thoroughly
done.
When you are convinced that
vour corn has been sullicentlv
humiliated, you may begin to
make the ear. It should now be
from 12 to 18 inches high and look
worse than you ever had any corn
to look before.
Put half your mixed fertilizer
(this being the first used at all)
in the old sweep furrow on both
sides of every other middle, and
cover by breaking out this middle
with turn plow. About one week
later treat the other middle the
same way. Within a few days
side corn in fir?t miilrll..
with 16 inch sweep. Put all yeou
nitrate of soda in this furrow, if
less than 150 pounds. If r.iore,
use one half of if now. Cover
with one furrow of turn plow,
then sow peas in this middle
broadcast at the rate of at least
tine bushel to the acre and finish
breaking out.
In a tew days side corn in other
middle with same sweep, put bal
ance of nitrate of soda in this fur
row if it was been divided, cover
with turn plow, sow peas and
break out. This lays by your
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uiwj; mill a f;uuu U?3U ?UU pieiliy
of dirt around your fltalk. Th 1 r
shouId he from .June 10th to 20tb
unless Reason is very late, and
jorn should be hardly bunching
for tas<el.
Lay by early. More corn is
ruined by late plowing than by
lack of plowing. This is when the
tar is hurt. Two good rains aftor
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