222 INDIAN COEN CULTURE. 



Corn at that time in South Carolina was 

 valued at 75 cents a bushel, which makes the 

 grain worth $191.16, and adding the fodder 

 value, $15, makes a total of, $206.16 value in 

 receipts. In February stable manure was 

 hauled on the land, followed by applications of 

 guano, cotton-seed meal and kainit. The land 

 was then plowed, and following the plow 

 cotton-seed meal was strewn in the furrows. 

 A subsoil plow came after, breaking the soil to 

 a depth of 12 inches. A Thomas smoothing 

 harrow followed after the plowing. One bushel 

 of Southern white dent corn of the gourd-seed- 

 variety was planted on March 2. The rows 

 were furrowed out, alternately three and six 

 feet apart, and five or six kernels were dropped 

 to each foot of the row. Between the wide 

 rows, later on in May, guano was applied, and 

 then later, in June, a mixture of 500 lbs. of 

 guano, cotton-seed meal and kainit was spread 

 in the wide spaces. Still later, in June, 100 

 lbs. of nitrate of soda was scattered between 

 the narrow rows and hoed in. Frequent culti- 

 vation was employed, but the land was kept 

 flat, not ridged. 



The plants grew so large it became necessary 

 to erect posts and nail slats to them on both 

 sides of each row to prevent the corn from 

 falling. The harvesting was done in the. pres- 

 ence of a large number of spectators, J. C. 



