A Successful One-Acre Garden 



r Dudley McClellan. 



As I was on the Page County Boys' Corn Judging Team 

 last year and went to the Ames Short Course, I thought I would 

 like to go again this year. As the Clarinda Trust and Savings 

 Bank offered $2.00 cash as premiums for the boys growing the 

 most corn to an acre in Page County, I thought this might be 

 a good chance to earn some money to help pay my expenses. 

 The short courses at Ames are helpful to the boy in many ways. 

 They teach all about farming and stock raising, etc. 



My father let me have the use of an acre of ground. This 

 acre of ground lies on bottom land and at the east end of the 

 field and is drained by two strings of tile. There is a big hill 

 and railroad grade just south of this field, and my father and 

 some of the neighbors think they kept the hot winds from hurt- 

 ing the corn. 



I secured some Reid's Yellow Dent seed corn from a neigh- 

 bor, Mr. J. E. Sawhill, living one mile northeast of us. I paid 

 $1.00 per bushel for it. and we planted it with an old style Moline 

 planter. The rows were three and one half feet one way and a 

 little closer the other, as the marker was a little bit short. We 

 planted it about the 12th of May. 



I disced the ground three times before plowing and once after 



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