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' Ml .... U.rch 20 1915 (7) 279 v I Saturoay, 'jjqwTmADE my prize corn :ijf ir: n rjrite Postal for 3 i V Wo vj Inoubator PRIZE-WINNING LETTERS FjtOM OUR CORN CLUB BOYS eritfMTIFIfi YOUNG After these cultivations the corn HERbfc A . was; pot bothered until it was ready FARMbKl. r---rto be put intheslioclc-rLhiredour .' . 1- v ' hand's and- with myself we soon had (First Prize Letter ; it vand pUt up. ;J, ieft it in, the -ttp fan of 1913 I "selected, tny shpck.about'L.t T a- ffood piece of soil, pretty , shucked it and measured it in a tub. Ta let I turned and subsoiled J found I had made 114 bushels and T- 'ece of ground in the fall. .Then this, together ' with the stover, t ed crimson clover as a cover . brought me $120. My expenses were S0Wadding some manure, six loads, $37, leaving me a profit of $33. . v CrdP2 000 pounds of ground limestone, . When we had our county faif'after hch I had ground myself. The the corn was judged and the reports I 'er grew arid got a good start in made, I was informed I had won thTfall and winter. ' ' fourth prize in "yield, first on the best In the spring the clover looked, so 10 ears, and first on the best one ear. od that I hated to turn it under, . My prizes amounted to $12. but nevertheless I did. v In conclusion I wish to say. to my I prepared a good seed bed by c'ul- boy friends if there is a corn, club in tivating until there was not a clod your County do not hesitate, to 'join left as big as a bird's egg. Before 'it.. Even if you .do not win a prize time come to plant I kept the top of , you will" be more than paid for your the soil stirred -after every rain, or work and will learn many valuable every week, mis Keeps mc icssuns. ,. i. vy. Jtvirro, from escaping, which is very impor- .; Repton Mills, Va. 1 . tant to the corn crop. ' V ? ' "' ; . y,: On the 15th ot April i pianiea iny corn. The soil was in . fine shape., I laid mv rows off three arid one-half . A Coming Farmer Tells flow to , Make Corn feet apart, and planted my .corn thick . BOUT the middle -of November, enough so I could thin it and leave J m j broke 'my acre'with a two- it about eight to ten inches apart in horse plow followed with a subsoiler, the row. ' ' y . j going about 12 inches deep. Then I I harrowed it before, it came :up, double disked it and sowed a little following tne row. a icr .uic, vuxu - . , f . - ction har rowed" the land .three times, when it was in excellent condition. The- rye came up a good stand, arid I disked it down April 15 arid applied vv m o r had grown two leaves I harrowed it diagonally across the rows. In about three or four days I harrowed at right angles to the second harrowing, by this time my rows were level broadcast; abut ii0 good loads of ma nure and 1,200 pounds , of ground rock -phosphate. 'v ft" "rv r x-v;. and While harrowing, fbefore I. planted, I addfL2Q0LpQ.undsjQJaciCphosphate 1 (f r iA n y C M4-i-M maa1 This was thoroiihlv cut in with a I double disked the land again and disk Wrow. TVip fnnrrh riilrivaHrm. immediately broke it three ,mches I used small plows on a double-footed deep with; a two-horse plow. I then plow, but never used them any 'more. harrowed, it twice ; and laid off my The fifth cultivation I used the 14-' rows, four feet apart with a 10-inch tooth cultivator, and th cnrino-. shovel and went twice to; the row 7 ww wt,..0 ... . j v.:. tt!.l ti.:..i: witn a.iwo-norse jiiiiman s cuiuvaiur. j I planted my corn on April 18, be low level, using Jones' Prolific, a va riety which I understand is bred up and I never went down deep enough from Mosby's. It usually has two or totearthe roots of the-corn. I plant- more fairly good ears to the stalk, ed Batts' Prolific corn and made 87 1 harrowed my land once before bushels on my acre. I followed mv the corn was UP and twice alter, un . 4 . Tk K ;' OA T 1 J i. torn,witn barley and-red clover. , j a tooth cultivator. Both did good Work. : During this cultivation I added 100 pounds of nitrate of soda, broadcast. 1 cultivated my crop seven times, PARIS A. BRYANT, Knoxville, Tenn. $83 NET PROFIT AND $12 IN PRIZES ' s May 20, I thinned the corn to one stalk to the hill, one foot apart. When the corn was about eight inches high I applied 150 pounds of acid phosphate" and. cottonseed meal around the corn, equal parts of each. ; I cultivated the corn eight - times, usually every seven or ten days. At tne last cultivation l sowea a Dusnei (Second Prize Letter) I iLHQSE apiece -)f-land20 uC dUU yards long, along a was inen oeginnin to.tassei. . S.e ows through our place... Owing to the long continued drouth 1 he soil is a clay loam. I plowed the' did not make as much corn as fand in the fall eight.inches deep, and I expected. The yield was 65.78 bush Y spniig it was well pulverized by es I think if I had had a favorable rzing and thawing. . . . -, year I should have made double this spread eight loads of stable ma- amount. . ' BIVER GRANT, . brnL07? lhe acre and also sowed Pontotoc, Miss. Z 20. pounds ' each of .acid . ' : 1 . r-vopudie and bnn moi nur Tbe,' Isha'Pread the ma amoiit81?! harrowing and secured ft st excellent seed bed cintea Should Neighborhood Meetings Be at Schoolhouse oj Church? TN 'NP!ART.V. nil races the srhool- Boon, rt y corn May 10, using' 1 house is suffcested as a kind of . ... " univ corn nn A-:u: ii. : ' .. ww- Wlttl a douhlp 7" uwinug u f meeting place tor tne community the row ut! C0? Planer, making club. It has been my experience that Fromthis cPph; t f feet apart the average school-house is not suit stand. -eainS A secured an ideal: ed for such a meeting. In the one As soon as tn -'-v- room schoolhouse especially the of ches hih T corn-.a.s a couple s'eats are largely provided 'for small ing a side sweeganT cult1lv.ating, us- children and it is - simply impossible soon after earti ' 1 cultlvated as for a 'grown person to make himself wuld do muLTlm a? . the land" comfortable. EitKer we must provide alt Some of ercj;ltlvations in ,an additional room' to the school for. W,ouId kill mv r! VTt0ld me 1 social gatherings, or make, use of plowing it Lf rf? not; stop ' some other building for such meet- ?uch effect on ml y4 i not ;have ins- 1 sometimes think that the heir minds wW ey changed 'churches would be more suitable tured. cn m? corn. had ma- places, but in many ' communities a When the corn xr C ' narrow . prejudice of some of the fehl thinned it i Ut lnches members would have to be broken f !?ches apart in T8 the. stalks " dow hefore consent could be obtain Stalk in the hill 6 row',with one ed for such meetings. Springfield, O. L O. 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