How Some Oconee Corn Club Boys Made Their Crops
The report details two Oconee County corn experiments by local club boys. One describes a Prolific corn crop with detailed planting, fertilizing, hoeing, and harvesting steps, yielding 78 bushels 12 pounds per acre with net profit around 887 dollars. The other recounts another grower’s sequence from soil prep to harvest, noting side applications of guano and nitrate, final yield about 6,222 pounds in shock, and a net cost per bushel of 28.5 cents with profit 360.96 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Didty
Farm record of Robert Davis at Kiehland dates and crops
Robert Davis of Kiehland provides a dated farming log from March to May detailing soil work with a plow and harrows, broadcasting 175 bushels of barnyard manure, applying fertilizer, planting corn, and noting worm damage reducing yields by about 40 percent by May 25. The entries reference ground breaking, disc harrowings, row spacing, manure, and guano application.
Richard Lewis Record of 56 Bushels on an Acre at Clemson College
Richard Lewis at Clemson College details a year of corn farming from March to November. He notes land preparation, planting Mosby's Prolific corn, acid and manure applications, weeders and harrowing, weather setbacks, and eventual yield of 56.18 bushels per acre, sold around one dollar per bushel, with a final note of profits including a ton and forage sold for $15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Lewis
Clemson College
Acre
Mosby
Weeder
Joe Harrow
Joe
Corn Yield Report by Bruce Stribling of Richland Ohio
Bruce Stribling reports on a dark colored post rock bottom field in Richland County Ohio. He describes land preparation from 1910 oats and peas to manuring phosphoric acid and guano applications, row spacing 30 feet, Marlboro Prolific corn, multiple cultivations, rains, a hail storm, and final shelling yielding 68 bushels per acre with 3838 pounds shelled corn from 4,083 pounds in the shuck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
King Mt CM
Acre
Hall
Ready mixed fertilizer beats home blends say experts
A speaker argues that ready mixed fertilizers from the Anderson Fertilizer Company deliver longer lasting ammonia, higher yields, and lower per acre cost than home mixed guano. He contrasts ammoniate sources, warns home mixers lack equipment, and cites crop gains and profits from using manufactured blends with nitrate of soda, sulfate of ammonia, blood, tankage, cotton seed meal, and fish scrap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Breckett
Columbia
Anderson Fertilizer Company
Anderson
W. McCarley
Mowler
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oconee Corn Club
Wilken
Richland
Qronce
Cross
Conerassa
Irk
Wiehland
Toonstaro Saas Sa
Apglat
Sesdhetey
Robert Davis
Kiehland
Bruce Stribling
Brace
Anderson Phosphate and Oil Company
Moss & Ansel
Madison
OP. Sullivan
Westminster
Breazbale
Byrd
Q. Adams
Ocon Rca
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