SAND, OR HAIRY VETCH 103 
alike, and of the dark green color indicating the healthy 
growth of corn. 
When the corn reached waist height the prophets who 
had predicted its untimely demise on account of the 
great mass of vetch turned under said: “ Wait until 
it begins to ear, and then you will see it fire and wither 
“up.” 
But the corn grew up and up until it reached the 
height of eight to ten feet, silked, tasseled, and bore its 
ears of golden corn. 
It was subject to six weeks of dry weather after it 
had silked, and yet it had not fired and every hill was 
bright and green. The neighbor’s corn opposite and 
across the public highway fired clear above the ears of 
corn, and did not make 20 bushels to the acre. 
Residents of the county not acquainted with what 
had been done to the field, who had been passing this 
field for twenty years or more, attracted by the remarkable 
growth and condition of the corn, would stop, get out 
of their vehicles and go over into the field to examine 
it, and then stop at the house and inquire what had been 
done to the soil to cause such a growth of corn, saying 
that “they had never known this field to have upon it 
a crop of corn of any value; that corn on this field was 
almost invariably a failure.” 
The corn finally reached its harvesting stage, sound 
and solid. It was gathered, hauled to market, and made 
by weight 72 bushels to the acre, and brought a money 
value ot $35 per acre. 
The planter used to plant the corn was set to drop 
three grains to the hill, and never missed putting three 
