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SCIENTIFIC CC Darlington Man Makes Ir velops Grain Ii The following article waa written by K. Mciver Williamson at ihe re quest of the Hurtsville Messenger, , and fit t pr i u ted in that newspaper: For a number of years after I bo gan to farm I followed the old-time method of putting tho fertilizer all under tbe 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. I planted much corn in thu spring and bought much moro corn the next spring, until finally ! waa driven tu the con clusion that corn could not be made on uplands in this section, certainly not by tbe old method, oxcept at a loss. I did not give up, however, for I knew that the farmer who did not make his own corn never bad suc ceeded, and never would, so I began to experiment. First, I planted lower, and the yield was better, hut the stalk was still too large, so I dis continued altogether the application of fertilizer before planting, and, knowing that all crops should be fertilized at some time, I used mixed fertilizer 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 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 thc drill. This was done the next year with results so satisfactory that I continued from year to year to in crease tho number of stalks and the fertilizer, with which to sustain them, also to apply nitrate of soda at last ploughing, and to lay by carly, sowing peas broadcast. This method Bteadily increased the yield, until year before last, (1904) with corn eleven inches apart in six-foot rows, and ?11 worth of fertilizer to j the acre, I made eighty-four bushels average to the acre, several of my best acres making as much as 125 bushels. Last year (1005) I followed the same method, planting the first week in April, seventy acres, which had produced the year before 1,000 pounds seed cotton to tho acre. This land is sandy upland, some what rolling. Seasons were very unfavorable, owing to the tremen dous rains in May, and the dry and extremely hot weather later. Prom .lune 12 to July, tho time when it most needed moisture, there was only five-eighths of an inch of rain fall 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 this method, on land that will ordinarily produce 1,000 pounds of seed cotton, willi SOU pounds ot fertilizer, 50 bushels of corn per acre should be made by using '200 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of ".cid phosphate, and 100 pounds of kainit mixed, or their equivalent in other fertilizers, and 125 pounds of nitrate of soda, all to be used as side application as directed above. < In land that will make a bale and one-half of cotton per acre when well fertilized, a hundred bushels of corn should be produced by doubling the amount of fertilizer above, except that 800 pounds of nitrate of soda should be used. In cudi case there should be left on the land in tom stalks, pens, vines and roots, from *12 to ri li worth of fertilizing material per acre, besides tho great benefit to the land from so large amount of the vege table matter. The place of this in the permanent improvement of land can never be taken by commercial fertilizer, for it is absolutely impossi ble to make lands rich as long as they aro lacking in vegetable matter. Land should bo thoroughly and deeply broken for corn, and this is tho time in a system of rotations to deepen the soil. Cotton requires a moro compact s Ml than corn, and while a deep soil is ossontial to its best development, it will not pro duce as well on 'ooso open land, whilo corn does host on land thor oughly broken. A deep soil will not only produco more heavily than a shallow soil with good seasons, but it will stand more wet as well as more dry weather. >RN CULTURE. nportant Discoveries-De nstead of Stalk. In preparing for the com orop, land sin mid. be broken broadcast dur ing the winter one-fourth deeper than it has been ploughed before, or if much vegetable matter ia being turned under, it may bo broken one third deeper. This is as much deep ening 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, lt may, how ever, be subsoiled to any depth by following in bottom of t ru plow furrow, provided DO more of the subsoil than has been directed is turned up. Break with two-horse plow if possible, or better, * ?th disc plough. With tho latter cotton stalks as large ua TC ever make oau bo turned under without having boon chopped, and in poa vines it will not choke or drpg. Never plough land when it is wet, if you ever expect to have any uso for it again. Bed with turn plough in six-foot rows, leaving ti ve-iitches balk. When ONE ACRE ANALYSIS. 2,800 pounds corn (grain). 600 pounds shucks. .100 pounds cobs . "A" taken from land. 1,200 pounds corn stalks., 3,000 pounds peas, vines and roots grown i Entire orop contains. Taken from land "A". Loft for next crop. KM) bushels oats and straw will require... 1,500 pounds seed cotton and stalks will r< 60 bushels corn, stalks, cobs and shucks \\ ready to plant, break this out with scooter, following in bottom of this furrow deep with Dixie plough, wing taken off. Bulge then on this furrow with same plough, still going deep. Rut) corn planter on this ridge, drop ping ono grain every rive or six inches. Plant early, aH soon as frost danger is past, say, first seasonable spell after March 15, in this section. I Especially is early planting neces j sary on very rich land, where stalks cannot otherwise be prevented from growing too large. Give first work ing with harrow or any plow that will not cover the plant. For second working use ten or twelve inch sweeps on both sides of corn, which should now be about eight inches high. Thin after this working. It is not necessary that tho 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 Htalk so hardened that it will never grow too largo. This is the most diffioult part in the whole process. Experience and judgment are required to know just how much tho stalk should be stunted, and plenty of nerve is required to bold back your corn, when your neighbors, who fertilized at planting time and cultivated rapidly, have corn twice the size of yours. (They aro having their fun now. Yours will como at harvest time.) The richer the land the moro necessary it is that the stunting process should bo thor oughly done. Whon you are convinced that your corn has been sufficiently hu* 1 miliated you may begin to make the lear. It should now bo from twelve to fourteen 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 sidcH of every other middle, .and covor by breaking out this middle with turn plough. About one week later treat tlpj other middle the same way Within a few days side corn in tirsl middle with 10-inch sweep. Put ai your nitrate of soda in this furrow if ICHS than 1?0 pounds. If more use one-half of it now. Cover wit! one furrow of turn plough, then SOM peas in this middlo broadcast at tin rate of at least one bushel to th? acre, and finish breaking out. In a few days side corn in otho middlo with large sweep, put balanci of nitrate of soda in this furrow i it bas boen divided, cover with turi plough, sow peas and break out This lays by your crop with a goo( bed and plenty of dirt around you stalk. This should bo from June li to 12} unless the season is very late Bind corn should be hardly bunching for tassel. Lay by oarly. Moro cora is ruined by late ploughing than by lack of ploughing. This is when the oar is hurt. Two good rains aftor laying by should make you a good crop of corn, and it will certainly mako with much less rain than if pushed aud fertili/.ed in the old way. The stalks thus raised are very small, and do not require anything like tho moisture even in proportion to size, that is necessary for large, sappy stalks. They muy, therefore, be left much thicker in the row. This la no now process. It has long been the custom to cut back vines and trees in ordor to increase the yield and tho quality of tho fruit, and so long as you do not hold back your corn, it will go, like raine BO long wont, all to Btalk. Do not bo discouraged by tho looks of your corn during the pro ceBB of cultivation. It will yield out of all proportion to ita appearance. Large stalks cannot make large yields, oxcept with extremely favor able seasons, for they cannot stand a lack of moisture. Early applica tions of manure go to make large stalks, which you do not want, and tho plant food is thus used up before Nitro- Phos. Pot gen. A<;id. ash. Value. 51 ,. 2 . 58 . 12 :i corn. 50 . 12fl . 58 . 71 . 78 quire. 04 ill require. 70 20 ll 2 7 0 2 22 20 3 17 10 44 41 81 28 26 22 20 12.08 P.? 01 16.23 31 48 17 56 25 37 tho ear, which you want, is made. Tall stalks not only will not produce well themselves, but will ootjallow you to make thc pea vines, HO neces sary to the improvement of the land. Corn raised by this method should never grow over seven and a half feet high, and tho car should be near to the ground. I consider the final application of nitrate of soda an essential point in this ear making process. It should always be applied al last ploughing and uurnixod with otherj fertilizers. I am satisfied with one oar to the stalk, unless a prolific variety is planted and leave a hundred stalks for every bushel that I expect to make. I find the 6-foot row easiest to cultivate without injuring the corn. For fifty bushels to tho acre, I leave it sixteen inches apart; for 8eventy-live bushels to the acre, twelve inches apart, and for one hun dred bushels, eight inches apart. Corn should be planted from four to six inches below tho lovel, and laid by from four to six inchoH above. No hoeing should bc necessary, and middles may bo kept clean until time to break out by using harrow or by running ono shovel furrow in center of middle and bedding on that, with one or moro rounds of turn plough. I would advise only a few acres tried by this method the first year, or until you aro familiar with its application. Especially is it hard at first to fully carry out tho stunting process, whore a whole crop is in volved, and this is the absolutely essential part of tho process. This method Ij? have applied or Beeil applied, successfully, to all kinds of land in this section, except river lands and moist bottoms, and 1 am confident it cnn be made of great benefit throughout thu entire South. In tho middle West, whore corn is HO prolific and profitable, and where, unfortunately for U8,*SO much of ours has been produced, the Htalk does not naturally grow large. As we como South its size increases, at tho expense of the ear, until in (Juba and Mexico it is nearly all Htalk. (Wit ness Mexican varieties.) Tho purpose of this method is to eliminate this tendency of corn to overgrowth at the expense of the yield, in this Southon, climate. By this method I have mado my corn crop more profitable than my cotton crop and my neighbors and friends who have adopted it havc,^ without exception, derived great benefit therefrom. Plant your own seed. I would not ad viso a chango of seed and method the samo year, as you would not know from which you have de rived the benofit. I have usod throe varieties and all have done well. I havo never used this method for late planting. In fact, I do not ad viso tho lato planting of corn, unless it ?B necessary for oold lowlands* Tho increased cost of labor and the high price of ali material and land, are rapidly making farming unprofit able, except to those who are getting from one aero what they formerly got from two. Wo must make our lands richer by ploughing deep, planting peas and other legumes, manuring them with aoid phosphate. Don't Be Imposed Upon. '?'uley ?fc Co., Chicago, originated Honey aud Tar as a throat and lung remedy, aud on account of tho great merit and popularity of Foley's Honey and Tar many imitations are offered for tho genu ine. Those worthiest* imitations have similar sounding names. Beware of thom. Tho geuuino Foley's Honoy aud Tar is iu a yollow package. Ask for it and refuse any substitute. It is the best remedy for coughs and colds. J.W.Boll. Killing Off the Children. 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