Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . yflats on which he farms and farms well. This fieldwas a grass sod plowed and fitted well for the cropin April and May. One ton of agricultural lime tothe acre sown broadcast was the only fertilizer ap-plied. The corn was planted the 20th May, the va-riety planted being Cockes prolific. It was plantedin rows 3 feet 10 inches apart and the seed dropped 1903.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 687 8 inches apart in the row?. The crop was cultivatedlevel 3 times. A gentleman who called to
Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . yflats on which he farms and farms well. This fieldwas a grass sod plowed and fitted well for the cropin April and May. One ton of agricultural lime tothe acre sown broadcast was the only fertilizer ap-plied. The corn was planted the 20th May, the va-riety planted being Cockes prolific. It was plantedin rows 3 feet 10 inches apart and the seed dropped 1903.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 687 8 inches apart in the row?. The crop was cultivatedlevel 3 times. A gentleman who called to see the cropjust before it was cut was so impressed with the quan-tity of corn on the land that he determined to ascer-tain closely Avhat number of stalks was growingupon an acre. By actual count made by himself and of land, sufficient to feed a herd of 24 cows for 8months. What a vision of prospective wealth toSouthside farmers this opens when the thousands ofacres in that section of the State now growing broom-sedge and pines are brought into subjection and prop-erlv farmed and managed. Near to this field another. ITKKD OF THE GROVE FARM. Mr. Sandy the number was found to be 14, stalks were not merely stalks, for nearly everyone carried at least one ear and many 3 and 4 ears,the average for the whole crop being about 2 ears ofgood corn to the stalk. The product when cut filledtwo Silos holding fiO ton each or a total of 120 tonson the n^ acres. Silage made from such corn as thisis worth much mere per acre for feeding milch cowsthan an equal quantity of the best hay as it containsboth long feed and grain feed sufficient to insure aheavy yield of milk. At a fair estimate the value ofsuch silage as feed cannot be taken at less than $8per ton or $1,000 worth of feed grown on 6J acres one of -iO acres has grown a heavy crop of cow peasnow made into hay with a yield of at least 1^ tonsto the acre. The wheat crop on the farm like that ofmuch of the South this yea
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