A Pa^e From the Southern Ruialist, About Half Size 
5c PF.'R copy- $1.00 PER YEAR 
ATLANTA. GA-. JULY J5, 1910 
VOL. XVII—No. 8. 
WHAT FARMERS A^KE I^PI?^ 
Ideas Being Intelligently Applied on Many G^^df Farms 
avrecord: With corn 
f . GREAT IS THE DUST MULCH ''']■>* 
\T wont to tell J'OII of my eMpcriimee on y 
this old run-down land, where the form-, Itg- 
er'owner .soys' he was starved out, and ■_ 
prtfllcled the same fate for us, ns siKm add t 
as money we brought with ns gave regar' 
out. ‘ . : - 
' -The year' iiefore we begun here a cer- .tnir I 
laift.rtract produced about llir<?c bushels . becan 
per ficre of nubbins; hardly a good car- so iiu 
in the patch. T broke deep, -prepared ers. 
well, planted in furrow, covered with ures.i 
hoe,.leaving slightly below the level, cul- cess, 
ilivnted frequentlv, shallow, Ifvel; plowed .same 
■five times with Southern llelle one-liorsc .*?/)/ 
I, .then . One year>Tig(>^|rost May, I bought.my 
turn. at-the'j'fcfot 
d,m.a- , o, pictu^squcrTr.ost Mountain;',‘ 
twhen . 1 an^^ty^bred,’linvc had'iKi preyiouJ, 
I will - experlcii^ih'^prattical farming,’^aiid have 
'.corn. Hcqhircd^ftny ^knowledge- IroinVrending 
fl turn and ' studying'^ agricultural papers fraim 
magazines. 7*Chief. among all,-I'-am*''in- 
; disk: debtcd'to the SouiHEux lliTTiAnsT.tor^injr, 
r C(?rn success-in raising. corn*i.and.jny^ interest' 
1 sow in thi.si-particular c_rop.^■ *-/■ , 
,• 1 am:ohly a one-mule, fnrmcV.%>Never- | 
Jersey- tlieles?i'.‘os'-^I'believe in deep’.plowing 'at 
liiterH the.' proper!.:,tiine,- I ■ broke, myvlandclast 
. v, ta> Kir.^^eruj/% 
—--- ny. .g « T. _u^i'^ Y depth ^bf.v^I2rJnch<!5 
•' -.’■■’uS-. - ■ with • Sn •'.’onp _*hr»i-c»* 
With ■^a' .’one-hoi'fie 
turner, - -and i.»sowf<l 
land* to oats^as -a 
^cover’crop.-. - 
' -.Tins, spring,*hegin- 
niiig.^of-' March, ‘ I 
turned under oats, 
•and- after harrowing' 
liiml thorouglily both 
•wjiys and ' dragging 
same T*laid off row* 
5tl-^ feet- wide 'with 
small' sweep, plow- 
iiig air deep as my 
Diule could -pun.. r 
then planted three 
acres In Hastings' 
Prolific corn on 
March 34th, crossing 
with a spring tooth 
harrow. Cbm was 
dropped, only one 
grain to the hill, one 
foot apart,' as I 
wanted it to grow. 
It came up fine, giv- 
ing a perfer' stand. 
April 8th I cultivat¬ 
ed ground with 
spring tooth harrow, 
bearing dovvn on it 
and ,'goinff ns deep 
as jmssituc, killing 
^ sprouting weeds; 
repeated ^ <}n ’ April 
13th. April S4th we 
had retnarkablf cold 
weather, witli snow 
during t h e - night,, 
four Inches d«p,' 
oud a freezing wind. 
At first i thought. 
was so drr that not 
a sign of moisture: 
showed till you went 
down eight inches, • 
and then it wouhl j 
not ball.. ' 
My corn stayed 
green to the lower' 
lii.'tdes till the grain j 
matured, and by act- . 
u;d measurement of ; 
;huKl and corn, l! 
-m.’Hle 311/-; bu.shels of j 
corn per acre wilh-j 
out fertilizer, while^ 
•prune, on which I put- 
rft'NUiall quttnlilV' of 
.stable manure near. 
j.CKcIi'hiU at time of 
. planting, made , 36 
^hiishfciN per a<re. S' .. . 
f'the entra prcp-irution -and cultivation I 
^piive^more than -was given the year bc- 
-s’forc—or«)r 18 bu.slicls per.acre 
"ad<Htion\iI. While the foruHT year gave 
two bushels per acre (one-third off for 
the 'land rent), for , breaking, planting, 
seed, and three plowing^,- and only <me 
bushel per acre rent, iny plan gave seven 
bushels rent and twelve bushels |>cr acre 
Jict for two extra plowlngs, and four 
wcedings, which took two and a half 
hours work for each plowing, and one 
: hour -for each weeding, or tw’clve bush- 
'ds'bf corn for uine hours work per 
ocre. Did it pay? * 
I At the -proper time I may tell you 
that ^m.y plants 
would be killed, but 
with tlie exception of 
about 200 hills which had to be replanted 
the corn bore up well. 
May 3d corn received first hoeing. 
This was done thoroughly, removing <*V“. 
cry particle of grass or weeds in the> 
row.s and pulverizing all clods and mak-- 
ing rows smooth and level. (I must then- 
tion here, that com was planted in « wa¬ 
ter furrow.) Same day middles weW 
harrowed again with spring tooth culti¬ 
vator, and left .smooth, weedlcss and cov¬ 
ered witli a fine two to three intfh thick 
Mi-y I3th the corn was both hoed and 
nudd^s harrowed out. May 30th I went 
Over middles again with cultivator. • May 
37Ui -I applied 300 pounds lU-3-4 aS side 
Bearded .Wheat, Grown on Farm of H. D. Randall, Lawtey, Fla. 
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