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WHAT A BOY CAN DO
Roy Ashley of Mize, Mississippi,
gives the following description of his
experience in raising corn:
"I am a farmer boy and have lived
on a farm all my life. I have always
livod in the same community. I am
only 15 years of age. In 1910 the su
perintendent of education of this
county organized a Boy's Corn club.
I joined it, and turned under the turf
in the fall and sowed rye on the land.
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In the spring I put out lot manure on
the land and broke it about 8 inches
deep. Tho people around here laughed
at me, and said I would not make five
bushels, but when my corn began to
grow they changed their minds. I
surprised them Q.M the more when I
gathered 78 bushels on my acre,
whilo the average yield in this county
was only 12 or 18 bushels per acre,
this being about all papa made, but
since the corn club started In this
county, papa has tried diversification
of crops and followed the demonstra
tion instructions until now his aver
ago yield is from 60 to 70 bushels per
acre. Every year since I first joined
the corn club I nave continued to
have an acre plot for myself to put
in corn. I can beat papa making corn.
"In tho fall of. 1913 I joined the
corn club again. I began the prepar
ation of my soil. I turned under the
cow pea stubble and broke my land
10 or 18 inches deep. I sowed oats
and rye on the land and harrowed it
with a section harrow.- The oats and
rye came up and I used it for a
pasture for my Jersey calf and two
pigs, and it kept them in good fix all
through the winter and gave them a
better start in the spring. In the
spring I turned the sod under, har
rowed it with the section harrow, and
then bedded the and. I sowed lot
manure in the drills and filled the
furrow with oak leaf compound; then
I rebedded the land, mixing the hu
mus with the soil. I then let the
toil stand untouched until in May
rebedded the land, put 30.0 pounds of
commercial fertilizer in the drill. I
followed this with a spring-tooth har
row and this with the planter. .My
corn came up well, but the spike
worms destroyed much of it. When
my corn was about two weeks old I
harrowed it crosswise with, a section
harrow. I let it stand for about two
weeks, then I harrowed t.hA middinc
.down with a spring-tooth harrow, and
mis put enough dirt to the corn, for
it must be remembered that I planted
in the water furrow. Then I thinned
my corn to an average of about 12 to
16 inches in the drill. Then I let the
corn stand about a week when I har
rowed it again with the spring-tooth
harrow, and from then on until the
1st of June I harrowed it with a
spring-tooth harrow. The land began
to get dry, as it had not rained for
weeks. I went two furrows to the
row with a heel sweep, and every
time I went around my corn it looked
like a shower had fallen. Then on
July 2nd or 3rd I laid my corn by
with a heel sweep, and put out 300
pounds more of commercial fertilizer;
around my corn, and on the following"
day tt rained and my corn looked fine,
but, by tho way, I had forgotten to
say we had a drouth lasting ten
weeks, beginning in May and lasting
until July, and you see a rain was
needed. While the drouth was going
on all corn around me was burning
up while mine was perfectly green
and doing well. In October, when
time came to crathor nnm t f ,,
disinterested men to gather my corn.
I went ahead and picked out the best
grade for first grade seed, and I made
three grades and had it gathered sep
arately so I could have good seed. I
made 106.35 bushels on my acre
while the average yield around me
f al K 15 busliels Per acre. I then
had 35 bushels of first grade seed
Srn, 4? ushels of, second grade, and
17 bushels of third grade and 12
bushels of nubbins.
I have sold all my corn, the first
grade at $2.00 per bushel, second
grade at $1.76, while I sold the third
grade at $1.0.0 per bushel, making
$161.50 plus the nubbins. I could
sell a hundred more bushels if I had
it.
I am going to buy me a full bred
Hereford bull-with my corn money,
and papa is going to give md a heifer.
I have cut my corn stalks, turned
them under, and now I have a good
crop of crimson clover growing on my
acre, and the people around here are
all following the method I used to
raise my corn, and I think the aver
age yield will increase fifty per cent
in two years. Most of thepeople are
going to try rotation crops and not
plant much cotton, and are going to
help make Mississippi a self-sustaining
state. I expect to do better next
year, as I shall have my soil better
prepared. I shall be with you until
tho last.
In the meantime, I beg to remain,
A Corn Club boy,
ROY ASHLEY.
GRADING SEBU CORN
Seed corn may be graded better
before the ears are shelled than
afterward. The United States depart
ment of agriculture specialists in corn
investigations consider it difficult tc
grade shelled corn Satisfactorily.
If the seed ears vary greatly as to,
size of kernel they snould be separ
ated into two or three grades accord
ing to size of kernel. These grades
should be shelled separately, tested
in the corn planter and numbered to
correspond with the number on the
planter plates that are fqund to drop
them most uniformly. These arrange
ments can be completed- before the
rush offspring work begins.
The first operation in properly
shelling seed corn is the removal of
the small kernels from the tips of the
ears and the round', thick kernels
from the butts. The rormer are less
productive than the other kernels of
the ear. The round butt kernels are
as productive as the other kernels of
the ear, but do not plant uniformly in
a planter.
Shelling seed corn carefully by
hand is profitable. The greater the
acreage planted the greater the profit.
Into a shallow pan or box each ear
should be shelled -separately, reject
ing any worm eaten or blemished
kernels. If the supply from the one
ear appears good and contains no
poor kernels' it is poured into the
general supply and another ear shell
ed invthe same way
beast. ' " "ucu uy an or
Give your cows all the t?nn v
they will eat and it pSSiST
s over and straw for the sake of?
riety. If you have time and th ?
tionce. cut some of it fine and molten'
it with hot water and feeding molaS
es to make it more palatable. S
them have all the water they im
drink at Jrast twice a day. Now r
some goo jcorn and oats and grind it
into a finchop. a good proportion
is four parts of corn and two parts
by weighty always, of oats. To this
add two parts of cottonseed meal and
two parts, of linseea meal and mix,
Now give -each cow a generous barn
shovel fuij of the cut feed moistened
with the by? water and molasses, and
on top of nis give her the grain mix-
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A medium sized cow "welchine-
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2iS..n& Weighl or Pducing any
milk: Twelve-pounds of timothy hay
and three pounds of wheat bran: or
eight pounds of corn stover, six
pounds of clover hay and three
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pounds of timothy hay and three
5?Uf?SMf heat bn; or ve pounds
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hay and four pounds -of corn and cob
meal. These are mere sample rations
showing what the cow needs for her
KTn e??' wrItes correspondent in
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her entire body, and, if she Is to make
milk she must have all the elements
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