WOHLD CORN YIELD RROKEN. Marlboro County Roy ls tho Chum? ??ion, Milking 208 Hushels. Ira W. Williams, State agent ot farra demonstration work, recently made a tri? to Bonnettsvlllo, where he made an investigation of the re ported yield of 258 bushels of corn on one acre of land by a boy of Marlboro county. Mr. Williams' re port bas not been made public. The name of the boy will, not bo an nounced until an officiai statement ls prepared. Mr. Williams will carefully investigate all of tho rec ords us submitted by tho Marlboro boy. The announcement that, the world's record .for corn production had been broken has caused much discussion. There are many who doubt tho large yield. Should tho announcement be made by tho State agent of tho farm demonstration work the records can be nccopted as absolutely correct, as a most thor ough investigation of every detail of the work will he made. This State has led tho world's rec ord for growing corn for many years. During the year 190G the last cap ture of thc first prize in such a'Con test was made. The first record yield of corn In South Carolina was made In the year 1857, when Dr. J. W. Parker, at that time superintendent of tho State Hospital for the Insane, on a plcco of land then known ns the "Asylum Farm," about one1 mlle north of Co nimbia, made the largest crop per itere "ever obtainod anywhere." Troin ?wo acres he gathered 350 bushels and one-half acre gave 200 hushels and two quarts. The Parker record stood rtnchalj longed until 188?), when The Ameri can Agriculturist's contest In corn growing, open to the world, took place.' In this contest Z. L. Drake, of Marlboro county, in this. Stale, won the grand prize. Tho "Hook on Corn," the standard authority in tho United States on corn growing, tolls tho following story which is ol' great interest just now because of the large yields thal are being secured, iu this State: "From a single aero Mr, Drake grew 2 2-"> bushels of shelled corn, or 239 bushels of crib cured corn, bute in February, I,Ooo bushels of stable manure and f>()0 pounds each . of manipulated guano, cotton sood meal and kainlt were broadcasted on the acre and then plowed under. Following tho plow, GOO bushels ol' whole cotton seed were strewn in the furrows. A subsoil plow was run through a depth of 12 Inches. The land was well harrowed and the rows planted alternately March 2, three and six feet apart. An Im proved strain of the common gonrd sced variety ol' Southern white dent corn was planted, live or six kernels hoing dropped lo each foot of the row. lt was planted In the furrows five Inches deep, but covered only one Inch. At the first hoeing the plants were thinned to one stalk every five or six Inches, the missing spots replanted; On April 20 the six-foot places wore plowed and a mixture, composed of 200 pounds each o:' guano, kahui, cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and bone was applied and hoed In. On May 15 the three-foot places were plowed and 300 pounds of nitrate of soda sown and worked In. On May 25, 200 pounds of guano wore applied in the wide places. Another application of 500 pounds of guano, cotton seed meal and Jr> bushels, the cribbed weight 239 bushels and tho chemi cally dried weight 217 bushels. The total expenses incurred by the pro duction was $2