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A Corn Club for Pulaski
The Editor o£ the Coehran Jour- j
V.al has requested me to discuss the j
need of n corn club for 1 u.asl.,
•count y.
Doubtless there are many who,
will u>k, “\Vb.> do we need a corn!
dub? Don’t all of us farmers grow |
corn? Haven’t we made it a life!
business? Who is wise enough to!
teach an old farmer how to grow j
corn?” —The answer is pat: Ot It- 1
SELVES SHALL SHOW OI’R.SEL-:
VES.
To learn what others have done j
is only suggestion, do learn to do
a thing ourselves, —that is educa
tion.
Haven’t we all heard that Major
Drake,-of South Carolina, several
ago, grew on one acre of soil,
in one crop, 255 bushels of corn;
that Mr. J. I*. Batts, of, Wake Co.,
Jf, C. grew last year on one acre ol
average land, 22b bushels of corn;
that here and there all over the
S ut!i, some one reports yields ex
ceeding the 100 bushel mark?
No, many never hear of it. Oth
ers hear and forget in the hour.
Others smile and say, I have
heard fish stories liefore. Still
others, "It is impossible, it’s only
a sensational newspaper story.
Yet others, more charitable, “Well,
he might have done it, hut it was
only a pet patch, costing far moie
than the corn was worth.”
And so we go bn from year to
year, letting our prejudices rob our
'pocket books, cultivating 10 acres
of land to get 100 bushels of corn,
saying of some neighbor’s 30bu-to
the-acre-field, “Thay’s the best field
of corn I’ve seen this year. 111 bet
he put a thousand pounds of fertil
izer t<f the acie.” Well, suppose
lie did. We used 2001 bs to the ac
re and got Bbu. above the co3t of
the fertilizer, with but little more
work to the acre. Which was the
gainer? .
Here i,s a little experimental fail
ure of the writer on a pet acre”
corn patch, that may prove interes
ting to the doubter.
Early in the year, I resolved to
try at least one acre well prepared,
well fertilized, and well cultivated
to test the profit over the average
treatment of the corn field. I had
ho convenient acre, especially adapt
ed to the experiment, except where
it wovdd make a patch in a field.
So I took an acre, in a corner,
shaded on the East and South by
pines growing over my land line,
the larger part being exceedingly
stiff red clay, one corner deep sand
washed in, and another corner a
wet sour spot, the whole covered
with a jungle of briars, with the
briar roots as thick as sweet pota
toes in the row —conditions not _at
all favorable for a large yield of
corn, the first year especially.
The land was broken as deeply
COCHRAN. 1M .\;>KL COUNT ;V. !«!•;< ; R 1, 1010.
as possible in early winter with a
3 horse disc plow,again in March
and yet again just before planting
in late April.
The last turning covered 2 barrels
of air slacked lime on the wet cor
neal ,000 pounds 10-1 acid phos
p! :ti.--potash broadcasted, and 18
loads of very inferior burnt out ma
nure, good only as litter for some'
slight inoculation of the soil —this
manure scattered at the bottom of
every other disc plow furrow. Even
with these three plowings the soil
wiis in places left in large clods.
Late in April, rows were opened
4 1-2 feet apart, and the grains
dropped as nearly as possible 8 to
12 in. in the drill, and covered
lightly without any fertilizing in
the drill.
As I have said, this acre was a
complete failure as an experimental
test, for the rains began soon after
the corn was old enough to be
ploughed and the ground remained
soaked either in whole or at the
ends of the rows, till it was in tas
sel. Not a plow or hoe was put
into it from planting to harvest,
except in the first three or four
rows where an unsuccessful attempt
was made to side the corn.
When the corn was in tassel, it
had scattered along the rows 2001bs
of nitrate of soda and 2001bs of ka
init. Then came draught, making
it extremely doubtful whether these
last applications of fertilizers ever
reached the corn roots during the
earing period.
Were there no witnesses to the
field ami the harvest, I should hes
itate to say that this entirely uncul
tivated acre of corn turned out ex
ceeding 00 bushels of corn, but
such is the fact. /
One may not doubt that with
proper cultivation, and with rain
during the earing time, the yield
would have been much larger, for
these are the life of a corn crop.
I relate this personal experience
merely to answer the following
questions:
Is heavy fertilizing justified in
money returns?
Did I lose by somewhat unusual
fertilizing, and by the triple break
ing of the land, even though the
latter part of the experiment was a
complete failure? This table will
show.
To breaking 3 times $1.50
To 1000 lbs 10-4 ae. pot.
mixture delivered $9.50
To spreading same and lime .40
To 2 bbls air slacked lime
delivered $1.40
To 18 loads of inferior
manure at 30cts. $9.00
To hauling and spreading
same 4.50
To 200 lb 3 nitrate of soda,
delivered 5.20
To 200 lbs kainit del. 1.40
To spreading same .50
To ham.-ling cmn and
fodder 6.60
Total „ $ll.OO
By 1500 lbs folder $15.00
By 60 bushels cord 60.00
Total $75.00
leaving me s3l to tia: good, and an
acre of land goo ! for several line
crop yields v, knout any further fer
tilization,if one eh* ise. At 10 per
cent profit wh.it is a.i acre worth
that nets s3l ?
Why do we need a corn club in
Pulaski? Because 100 many of our
corn cribs are located in lowa and
have been since, the war.
We send to the West every week,
several thousand dollars for corn,
corn meal, meat and lard, all of
them corn field products. This
\ylien individual farmers of the
South, have for many years held
the world’s record in corn growing
casts a slur on our capacity, both
as farmers and as business men.
1 have been told that a former resi
dent of this county grew last year
on 14 acres of piney woods sandy
soil, over 15U0 bn. of corn, atacost
of less than $lO per acre for fertil
izers.
Don’t believe it? Well, that is
not blameworthy, for “seeing is be
lieving.” His neighbors, however,
will doubtless grow better
corn hereafter,
And because we rigidly doubt
that which v e do not see and do not
understand —that is why we need
a corn club:
To stimulate by prizes, and by
the spirit of emulation, some farm
ers in each community to try at
least one acre under high prepar
ation, fertilization, and cultivation
to prove to themselves and to their
near neighbors that it is more
economical to make one acre to pro
duce 50 bushels, than to get that
amount from 3 or 4 or 5
That farmer prize-winner, and
his competitors will get a new edu
cation out of their acre in the econ
omy of grewing corn, and they will
try more acres to keep that com
pany.
Other farmer neighbors will see
results, will he filled with the
spirit of emulation to grow as good
corn as their bretheren, and so the
missionary work will go on from
the top to the very bottom of farm
life improvement.
There is not in life any reward so
highly regarded by man in every
walk of life as the contemplation by
himself and by his fellow man, of
a work well and nobly done.
That is the ultimate badge of
merit sought by all, lying behind
and above all other earthly rewards,
whether the immediate object be
the growing of fine potatoes, the
accumulation of money, literary,
political, industrial attainment, or
attainment of any kind soever —rec-
ognition by self-approval, and by
Shot by Own Relative
Special to Macon News.
Eastman, (la., Nov. 28- —Mr. \V.
W. Taylor, a farmer living at Leon
Ga.,seven miles from hew, on the
\V. and T. Bailroad, Eastman di
vision, was probably fatally shot
Sunday morning by. (.'lmles Stuckey
a relative. Mr. Tky.lor was shot
five times.
It seems that c buries Siuckey and
his wife quarreled; Saturday and he
told her to leave howie. She did,
and he would' not let her take the
baby with her.. She spent tlicc
night with Mir.. Taylor, her uncle*,
and Sunday morning, ap insl the
advice of Mrs. Stuckey and bis fam
ily, Mr. Toy lor went to the Stuckey
home to get the child from its. fa
ther. A quarrel ensued between
Stuckey and Taylor, ending ki a
pistol duel, Taylor fired at Stuck
ey four times, none of the.- shots
taking effect, while stuck<sy hit
Taylor five times.
West Taylor,.as he is kimm, is.
a man about fifty years of age and
has a large family. Chark-s Stuck
ey is about 25 years old.
As soon as the shooting, was.over,
Stuckey left the neighborhood, hut
he later telephoned the- sheriff at
Eastman to come and get him.
Both families are well known and
well connected in Dodge County
Mr. Wiley Jones and his son
were eye-witnesses to the shooting,
having gone there with Mr. Taylor.
It is claimed that Stuckey is at
fault, drawing his pistol and firing
first.
Mr. Taylor was carried to his
home and the best medical atten
tion from Dublin and Eastman
summoned. An operation was
performed. It is not thought that
he can live.
Eastman, Ga., Nov. 28 —W. W.
Taylor died Sunday night. The
funeral will be held today. Inter
ment will be made at Middle
Ground Cemetery. Taylor leaves a
large family.
approval of one’s fellows.
“Virtue is its own reward.”
And the boys must not be left
out of the contest. They are young
farmers to be educated in farming,
but they are interested in a multi
tude of things that keep their minds
off the father’s crop.
Education consists in doing.
Not all the corn crops that father
has ever grown, or will ever grow,
can so completely capture a boy’s
attention n 1 e Lie ite him in the
mysteries of corn growing, as one
single acre, all his own, on which
he in contesting for the honor with
other boys, of growing the finest
corn crop in his community or
county.
Let us by all means have the
corn club, let us investigate the
statement that we can grow more
Corn at smaller cost, by trying it
ourselves. The corn club will be
the nucleus where we cair gather
and talk over and profit by one an
other’s successes and mistakes.
Joel T. Deese
Boh Mims Killed
hy His Wi r i
c Cr ugeclif Qcxured am the IVh ,'&~
h.urst Pkmtaivm Near
hongskraeL
Bob. Mime was-shot and a-, .mart,
instantly kUJed at his home ’\uur;
Lyngstiiieet. .on Mir. Joel W sjAe-i
■burst’s pkiilatiion, at ten o',-}*<&•
:last Sunday night by his wife, JjjJJit-
Muy Mims*.
Mim.%. who was a colored tenant
on the Whitehurst plantation*, had.
been delinking nearly ail dey v - Sun
day,. auil„ aceonhag to bis,, wife’s
statement, had been gone ear
ly in the afternoon, coming* home
about ten o’clock Sunday night in
a quarrelsome mood. Thu-. woman
•states, that Mims had bran, home
but a short while when ly* drew a
pistol from his pocket, saying lie
was going to kill her, bqfc befom he
could fire, if he so bdcj.uled, the
woman wrenched the weapon from
his hand and shot hi>u< live times.
Dr. J. G. Slappey, who. made the
post mortem examination, is of the
opinion that either, o,t‘ the shots,
would have prxlujsd death.
Mims’s body was,discovered Mon
day morning and. an inquest w&s
held. The corners jury, after
hearing the wojaan’s statement -yqd
making a careful investigation., de-'
cided that it was a jutifiable homi
cide. —Twiggy County Citizen,.
Special Services
at Baptist Church
Mr. Stukenbrok, a returned mis'
sionary from China, no;«y conduct
ing The Seamen’s Mission at the
(Brunswick port, will preach at the
Baptist church Sunday morning.
All are cordially invited to attend
the services.
Wesleyan Orchestra
Macon, Ga., Nov. 28. —The Wes
leyan symphony orchestra, its mem
bership comprising 50 of the lead
ing musicians of Macon, was or
ganized here last night, the first re
hearsal being held. l)r. Dingley
Brown, director of music at Wesley
an, is leader of the orchestra. He
will devote his time and energies
absolutely without recompense.
This is the first symphony orches
tra ever organized in the state. The
first concert will be given late in the
spring.
Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in
action, quick in results, and restore
the natural action of the kidneys
and bladder. They correct irregu
larities. Sold by Taylor & Ken
nington.
NUMBER 27.
Industrial Society
‘ Jt Loiter from Prof, l Browning
j;
The- teachers, trustees-, and far
;iiwts of Pulaski county are urged to
die at the Cochran Opera House
.Saturday 'morning,. Dec. 3rd, for
the purpoi-e-of organizing an Indus
trial Society.
Teachers, we are in an agricultu
ral community,, where people are
making their daily bread as well as
their luxuries,from the fertile soil;
and yet we are not teaching the ris
ing.gene,y#.tjon that the profession of
their fathers is one of the noblest
profession* iirGotl’s- universe. My
sympathy is with the great mass of
farmer,* upon whom rests the future
development of our glorious SouD’
land I.", love to recall the h.-chh
in Roman history referring to Cin
cinna.Ais. He, it was, who ploughed
his cabbage patch and, when the en
emy, threatened bis country, put
away the implements of agriculture,
apa .grasped the implements of war
tn-jjd his native land of the inva
eii*/; after wnieh he retired to his
farm, and made the.soil resppnd to
his magic tovweh.
We have farmers around Cochran
and Hawkinsville who are just such
men as old Cincinnatus was, and we
should hold their hands up and aid
them in every way. We want to
stir the hearts of our boys and girls
and make them understand that
they are living in a land of un
bounded prome. Let them know
that if a 15 year old boy,—Jerry
Moore, of Winona, South Carolina,
could raise 228 bushels of corn
on one acre, we of Pulaski can
raise 230. We want to raise more
potatoes, tomatoes, cotton, wheat,
sugar cane, etc. on an acre than
any one has ever raised before.
We may also add an athletic and
oratorical contest at the same time
that the exhibits are prepared and
judged. We will have prizes for
everything.
Let every teacher, trustee, and
interested farmer meet with us at
10 o’clock Saturday.
Yours tor prosperity,
/ I.eo 11. Browning.
Millcdgeville Man
is Shot to Death.
Millcdgeville, Ga., Nov, 28 —Eli-
jah Simmons, 21 years old, was shot
to death by a negro near here at an
early hour Sunday morning.
It is said that Simmons vfent to
the home of Buckner, the negro,
for the purpose of protecting his
brother. Buckner is at large.
Simmons was a native of this
county, and leaves two brothers,
both of whom reside at this place.
S. Q. Segars spent Thanksgiving
in Atlanta and Stone Mountain.
