The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., March 12, 1910, CORN SPECIAL, Page 182, Image 6

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WHERE TO BUY THE BEST SEEDS. , |
SEED CORN
Ratekins Silver Mine Seed Com, White, |1 50.
Ratekins Pride of Nishna Com, Yellow, $1.50.
Tenn. Red Cob, White Seed Corn, Shelled, $1.25.
Tenn. Red Cob, White Seed Com, Shuck, 81.50.
Macon Mer. Co., • - Macon Miss.
Crawford’s Best Two-ear Com
White grain and cob, heavy ear. Result of nine
year’s close, careful, trial experiment. Nubbed,
shelled and nicely sacked. Half bushel $2.00;
bushel $3.50, f. o. b. Willis ton, Tenn.
T. A. CRAWFORD,
Williston, Term.
COW5®HUSS
No other crops so valuable
i for fertilizing, hay and soil
ing. Millet, cotton and
cane seed, and sweet pota
toes. Write for illustrated
HICKORY SEED CO.. 17 TradTst., Hicker*,’ N. C.
COTTON SEED
. Bp*!*” BoO Improved. $2.00 per bushel. 8
bushels. $5.00.
WiU beet the weevil. Bred up for 7 rear*. Lint
83 to 86 per cent.
Small lot of "extra select” seed, seme variety.
16.00 per bosheL Let's talk it over.
Refer to Bank of Louisville.
» * n w . J- CHAPPELL. Jr.
R. F D. No. 6 Louisville.
pCR SALE.—Beat selected Improved Moeby
Seed Com. Least subject to damage by wee
OT ®belled at i>2 00 a bushel: over ten
bushels $176. T. R. BARBER, Arnot. Miss.
Mosby Corn, Cook’s Cotton,
None Better.
S°jBeans. 5™“* Turkeys, Hereford Bulls, at
auctiofi. April 21st. Every farmer and stockman
should write for valuable circular.
Lambert Stock end Seed Farm,
_Darlington, Wilcox Co.. Ala.
Caail For 25c In postage stamps
free oBBO to pay coat ol mailing, we
■ a vv WWWM will mall you postpaid 1-2
pound Johnson's Improved Prolific Cluster
Cotton Seed, and 1-2 pound Johnson's Pedi
greed Six-Ear Com. and our 60 page seed and
plant catalogue describing all varieties of Im
proved Cotton. Com. Grain, Grasses, Clover.
Melon Seed, etc., also Plants, Fruit Trees.
Roses, etc., of all varieties.
L L MrsmSmI I Plait C«., p. a. Bsi <17. Istnscs. la
Square Deal Seed Com
Won gold medal at St Louis World's
Fair. The originator of this variety
offers 91000.00 for a corn that will pro
duce more per acre. :: :: ::
HKl.RCT BRED for sale at K00 per
buaheL by :: :< :: ::
S. F. EWING - Harriston, Miss.
PLANT
HENDERSON’S GREAT DROUGHT
RESISTING SEED CORN
Bom and bred in “Ole Mias." Notwithstanding
last summer's seven weeksdrought our thirty acre
seed field averaged over sixty bushels per acre.
We do not claim this com to make from 100 to 250
bushels per acre, but we know it will make.SIXTY
and this yield should be good enough for any in
telligent farmer. Price 12.00 per bushel. 6 bushel
lota 91.75 per bushel.
WILSON’S FEED STORE
Greenwood, Miss.
SELECTED SEED CORN
SOO Bumhclt Bonne Count* White.
12.00 per bushel shelled.
92.50 per bushel in ear.
».r Madrid.
91.60 per bushel shelled.
91.75 per bushel shelled.
Mexican Jane
92.00 per bushel shelled
All carefully selected. I make flne Seed Com a
specialty. Com delivered f. o. b Lake Providence.
La. J. B. ERWIN. Waddill. La
COVINGTON-TOOLE COTTON
THIS is one of the most prolific cottons on the market today. The
Covington-Toole is a great improvement on the Toole, by having been
bred and selected through breeding patches for the past lour years. The
bolls are larger, the per cent, of lint is higher and the yield per acre is
greater than the common Toole. Stood second at.Ga. Ex. Sta., last year.
It is one of the safest varieties you can plant for your main crop, for
a good crop is always made from it. Deep rooted, free from diseases and
picks good. Given up to be the best poor land cotton in the South, but
wiU make as much as any on rich land. Very early, and a boll weevil
cotton. A customer from Louisiana, writes me it made 100 bales off 120
acres, when other varieties were almost completely destroyed by the
weevils. Seed very highly selected and are worth $1 00 per bu., any
quantity. Write for catalog and testimonials.
W. F. COVINGTON, - ■ Headland, Ala.
Jg /657
f§H We Quote a Few Articles
fior Prompt Orders
Seed Oats
Extra Early Burt. 75c, 20 bushel lota or more. 70c
Genuine Texas Rust Proof, 75c per bushel.
Onion Sets
White Silver Skin <32 lbs.), *2.75; Dark Red Weath
ers field (32 lbs.), (2.50; Yellow Danvers (32 Iba )
12.25; White Multipliers (38 lbs.). *2.26
Miscellaneous
Tpnnpaaoa _ In.. ....
' ^ «£WK & Quantity^
Improved Cotton Seed
iZnt5n«riV^n<1 TR^E a cotton circular to those interested in cotton
with best vTrut CirCf ar Klve* 8UKKe»tions aB to the best fertiliser to use,
the^lu-gest y^eld—writ e* f or It** C°UOn* f°r different kind“ °f to gi"
Truckers and Those Using Seed in Quantities
We ask to mail us a list of the seed you will need with ouantitv for
our special price. Address P. O. Box 87 quantity for
k////n/■%(&&& Seed &
BIRMINGHAM. ALA.
WE SELL EVERYTHING THAT IS PLANTEC
HOW MR. FRENCH MAKES BIG CORN CROPS.
Popular Lecturer at Mississippi Institute* Last Year Telia
Methods He Uses—liarrowing Just After Planting, Four Times
With Hiding Cultivator, Then the Single Wnlking Tool*—How
He Select* Seed and Keeps I»nd Filled With Humus.
By A. L. French. R 2. Byrdville, Vs.
CTSy F MY FRIENDS of The Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette
1| teel as the buuuy Home man
does, there will be a thumping crop
of coru produced m the south this
year.
1 always believe iu giving every
man a fair shake, so have given all
the best corn growers in our neigh
borhood fair warning that they are
going to have tne lime of their
lives this season if they grow a bel
ter average crop than we grow on
our place.
To Begin With, Good Seed.
We beguu our preparations Iasi
fall when we put up our seed com.
this was gathered early, ioug helotc
utue for frost, picked lrom the very
best patch of coru ou the latut
Eurs weie picked ouiy from strong
vigorous stalks of medium height,
having an abundance of large,
uroad leaves and these ears of coru
had been fertilized by polleu produc
ed ou the same sort of a struug
plant.
A few of the very choicest of these
ears we nave in a rack by them
selves. The grains from these are
to be houored by being planted lu
an extra hue piece of ground, ahoul
two acres in extent, from which we
shall select our entire crop of seed
for mil.
This is the first move to make iu
breediug either plauis or auuuals.
select good well bred seed, theu lake
care of it so lhal it will produce as
good or better results than could
have been obtained from the pareul
stock.
->o Good Corn Crop Without iiuniu*
in the hull.
Now, It wo lake Ibis good seed
corn and plant it in a piece of poor,
heavy, water-soaked land devoid o!
humus, we will expect Just as good
results as tbe stockman obtains wbo
takes bis well bred live slock and
half starves it. We know it is not
good sense to do tbls, and we know
if our corn laud is in tbe above con
dition that tbe neighbors will have
tbe laugh on us good. So we decided
we must have humus. Wo have
been looking forward to this lime
for years, so last fall had a good
acreage of clover sod, and the bal
ance of the land selected had growu
peas two years, with a crop of rye
between. This pea and soja bean
stubble was disked last fall and seed
ed in rye again, and will be grazed
off with sheep Just before planting
lime, then plowed thoroughly.
As soon as the rains come In De
cember tbe plow- was pul into the
clover sod and Dave was told that It
wasn’t quantity but quality of work
that he was to figure on. Tbe Little
Wonder plow trucks aid very materi
ally in doing a good job of plowing.
In that they hold the plow at a uni
form depth, and also keep the width
of tbe furrow-slice tbe same at all
times. This is Important. The uni
form depth enables tbe plowman to
bring up a thin slice of the dead
subsoil with each furrow and guards
against an excessive amount being
brought up in any one place.
We know from experience that It
Is good practice to gradually deepen
our soils, both for the purposes of
breaking the hard pan—that will
form just between the upper and
sub-soli—and also to bring Into use
s little of tbe vast amount of mineral
plant food that most clay subsoils
I contain. 'llits land we have been
! working on during Ihe winter we
nave plowed sutural times since we
nate owned Ibo place, gradually
ueupuuing each lane, until mu plow
couid cul about ten Inches deep this
time aud bring up about uu inch ol
me subsoil, liy culling the lurrow
a uiiiloriu width, ol about li luches,
the slices ol soil were hot Inverted
but set at an angle of about 4& de
grees. in us thu tresh laud was de
posited between, and not on top ol
me lurrows, so we have a succession
ol strips ol dead soil aud live huinus
hiied soil lying parallel, ready when
me disk aud older harrows are pm
uu lu the spnug, to he miked thor
oughly through and through. 'Inen
me small arnouut of dead soil will
uucotne lost lu the greatur bulk of
ute upper soli, aud alt will become
alive, a Ut dwelltug place for euro
roots.
Hot* the Harrow Help*.
We are banking heavily on one
thing, and that is that this soil haa,
duiing the past years, become pretty
thoroughly Ulied with humus. Clover
roots, pus roots, grass roots, and
stable manure it has had in hot suc
cession. this humus, together with
our winter plowing, is. 1 feel, our
greatest sate guard against the July
aud August drouth that cause* so
many corn Helds to look as If they
had bveu through bankruptcy.
Uul there is another point we
must guard against in our efforts to
save moisture, and that is the spring
wiuds and capillary attraction. We
all know how soon the top of our
land dries off in the spring and how
we may very largely stop uas drjr»
1 iMM 1.0 L o.. . i _ _ a S_a-.~. as as
I”** • —-'•'*•*«* **»v Miumiifii*
ly hummed. We are fixing to lake
|iure of tnta matter in Ume. The old
disk that we bought seventeen years
ago bos been retired from busineae,
and one of tbe new longuolesa sort,
a larger machine, is coming to lake
its place, so we will be prepared lo
do more rapid work. Then we have
new blades for our Acrno harrow, and
the steel slant tooth harrows have
been pul in order, so that whatever
tool we feel will do the work best at
the right Ume will be ready to hllcb
on to.
Tile Drainage.
There were a number of places In
these fields where the drainage was
not what wo could wish It to he. The
top ten inches of soil was all right
but the subsoil was tight, heavy
clay almost impervious lo water, but
that, when once thoroughly wet, got
too wet. Those readers who have bad
experience trying to grow corn over
this sort of subsoil, know that the
business Is at most a gamble. And
us we don't believe much in garnb*
ling, especially when a corn crop la
ut stake, we made up our mind early
last fall that something had to be
done with these unreliable spots.
Tile draining Is the only remedy we
know for luud of this nature, so all
winter long, while Dave has been
plowing and haullug manure, the
writer has been digging ditches and
getting In shape so we won't have
thoBo bad spots all through the fields
that pull down the average of the
crop.
We will not be In a great hurry to
plant but will take our Ume to pre
pare a thorough seed bud conserving
the moisture as noted above. Then
as fast us the pluntlng Is done the
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