Hastings' seeds : spring 1912 catalogue . corn , per acre with-out fertilizer, while j some* on which I put aHiiiall quantity of 1 stable manure near each hill at time of planting, made 26 bushels per a<re* So you can see thatthe extra- preparation and cultivation Ipave—rinore,,than was given the year be-fore^r] rpdveed ovtr 18 bushels per 4creadditional. While the former year gavetwo bushels per acre {one-third, offr forthe .land rent), rfor breaking, planting,seed and three plowings, and only onebushel per acre rent, my plan gVbushels .rent and twelve bushels et . for, two extra plowing*,
Hastings' seeds : spring 1912 catalogue . corn , per acre with-out fertilizer, while j some* on which I put aHiiiall quantity of 1 stable manure near each hill at time of planting, made 26 bushels per a<re* So you can see thatthe extra- preparation and cultivation Ipave—rinore,,than was given the year be-fore^r] rpdveed ovtr 18 bushels per 4creadditional. While the former year gavetwo bushels per acre {one-third, offr forthe .land rent), rfor breaking, planting,seed and three plowings, and only onebushel per acre rent, my plan gVbushels .rent and twelve bushels et . for, two extra plowing*, and foiwcedings, which^.toQlc two and a halfhours work for. each plowing, and onehour for .each-weeding, or twelve bush-els of corn for .nine hours work peracre. Did it pay?iAt. the -proper time I may tell you Berkshire sow which brings two litters prope .1 broke la. Bearded Wheat, Grown on Farm of H. D. Randall, Lawtey, Fla PEAS AND MORE PEAS Land which formerly yielded 20 bush-els of corn and a half bale of cotton tothe acre, now yields 100 tmshcls corn,two bales of cotton,-or 40 bushels . attribute my success with this land toplanting cowpeas, and keeping up aper acre proper When laying by my corn I sow laying by cotton I sow pen, aod before frost have twothings to pick off the same land,there- by Increasing the profits and Improving mcr,the land at the same time. Neyer-ing atid last fall to fin averagedepth of 12. Incheswith a one - horseturner, and sowctfland to oats .as *cover crop. This spring, begin-ning, of March, -t• under . bats, and after harrowingland thorouglily-bolhways and dragging-i same Tlaid off rows\ 5 1-2 feet wide withsmall sweep, plow- ing a^r deep as mymule could pull, tthen planted threeacres ln~ .HastingsProlific eo r n onMarch 54th, crossings with a spring tooth-harro
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