Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-23 | Page 34 | Alford Branch Makes High Yield for Texas

AlFORD BRANCH MAKES HIGH YiElD FOR TEXAS MAS Careful Preparation and Tilling Tilling Tilling Till Till- ing Bring 1 2 1671 67 1 2 12 2 BushI Bushels Bushels Bush Bush- I els to Acre Acrel Alford Branch Is IN a wide awake firmer farmer boy living hiving at Averton Husk count county Texas who carefully his land prepared It was In in ui the fall tall of or 19 1911 1 so that condition for Cor tho the winter rains to sink In and to be bo for or the thc use of or the plant stored during the tue following the tho Tin best season season- seed Reed w Who carefully cai selected corn that was in his section and by bj shallow grown am and constant cultivation from rom rein the time the corn cOin was a a. f few w inches hl high h until it wa iva free actually from front mature not only k pt It t weeds but kept kent tl the sur- sur surface sur face fac for Inch an Inch and a n. half haIr or two Inches so finely pulverized that it acted as fiS a mulch and prevented tho the loss of or moisture b by capillary and who has hns raised on one acre of second bottom land bottom land ln bushels bushell of or corn at a cost of ot 13 Ia cents bushel Lushel per por Rating fluting the corn at the tho low price of or 70 iO cents per bushel there was a net profit of or from this acre I Adding to thIs tills the GO prize mone money awarded him b by the Texas Industrial congress makes a total of ot which Is the Interest at 6 per cent upon T and represents represent tho the value of or an Intelligent combination of oC brains and ana work This young young- man broke hi his lard land In the early carh winter with a two horse plow cutting a about bout six Ix Inches deep followed in iii the same furrow with a A. team pulling what is known a as a tongue bull that cut ten inches fur Cur ther thor Into the earth but turned up no new soil soU and formed a reservoir to toI hol hold the moisture as well as to aerate the land and make more rood plant-rood I available 3 He lie used five hundred pounds of ot commer commercial lal fertilizer