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is to get soil from land that has grown these crops successfully. Get 

 300 or 500 pounds of soil from your nearest neighbor who has grown 

 the legume you wish to try. Or you can get this soil from your State 

 Department of Agriculture. We find that some of our soils will grow 

 the crimson clover or vetch readily without inoculation, because in 

 some way the soil has been inoculated. If I were starting out, I 

 would never neglect to inoculate, because I would not know whether or 

 not the soil would grow clover or other legumes. Sometimes stable 

 manure will inoculate, particularly if it has been produced by feeding 

 hay of the legume you wish to grow. 



Professor Massey : "We have found in the section of Maryland 

 where I live — the southeastern corner of the Eastern Shore — that 

 wherever this little woolly-headed, rabbit-foot clover grows, the soil is 

 inoculated for crimson clover. The rabbit-foot clover is a little, gray, 

 woolly-headed clover, and wherever it grows crimson clover will grow 

 every time, without any further inoculation. 



Q. How ynuch soil will it take to inoculate an acre of land for crim- 

 son clover? 



Mr. Goodrich : Two hundred pounds will sometimes do it. We 

 recommend 200 to 500 pounds per acre. When you get one acre inocu- 

 lated, use the soil by the cart-load on the other acres, as you will then 

 have plenty of it. 



Q. How much seed of crimson clover do you use to the acre? 

 Mr. Goodrich : One peck or 15 pounds to the acre. 



HOW I PRODUCED 235 BUSHELS OF CORN ON ONE ACRE. 



C. W. Pakker, Jr., Woodland, N. C. 



In the spring of 1909 I selected an acre of land upon my father's farm to 

 plant in corn for the Hertford County Boys' Corn Club Contest. I plowed 

 the land 10 inches deep, having previously spread broadcast ten wagon-loads 

 of stable manure. I then ran oft the rows 4 feet apart, listed some two 

 furrows to each row, about the 15th of April. The 1st of May I planted the 

 corn — Biggs and Honeycutt varieties mixed. I used .$9.50 worth of fertilizer, 

 one half used in drill when planted and the other half used beside the corn at 

 the second cultivation. The fertilizer used was 17 per cent acid phosphate, 

 cotton-seed meal and kainit in equal parts. 



We had excessive rains throughout May, June, and the first of July, which 

 drowned my corn, and its yield was only 67M; bushels, which won first county 

 prize. The entire cultivation was done with a five-hoe cultivator and Climax 

 cotton plow run very shallow. 



In December, 1909, I selected an acre of land in the same farm, spread 

 broadcast eight wagon-loads of stable manure and bedded the land up, breaking 

 same 12 inches deep. I then took wing off of plow and ran two furrows in the 

 bottom of the row between the corn beds from 8 to 10 inches deep. 



About February 1, 1910, I reversed the beds, breaking same from 12 to 14 

 inches deep, and ran two center subsoil furrows, 8 to 10 inches deep, between 

 the beds, as in December. 



I opened the beds the 25th of April and planted corn about 6 inches below the 

 level of the bed, using in the same furrow 400 pounds of cotton-seed meal, 

 acid phosphate, and 2-8-2 guano mixed in equal parts. I used the "Biggs 

 seven-ear corn," planted with a Centennial planter. As soon as the corn was 

 large enough to cultivate I used the five-hoe cultivator. At the second culti- 



