Monday, January 27, 2014

Dwight Williams, Haywood County, Is NC's Champion Corn Grower for 1949



From Extension Farm-News, published January 1950

Dwight Williams, a Haywood County farmer who projected 141 bushels of corn on one acre, has been declared North Carolina’s champion corn grower for 1949, according to Dr. E.R. Collins.

The new champion will receive a $100 bond as regional winner for the mountains and another $100 bond as State winner. Mr. Williams won first place with an acre of Dixie 17 that was seeded May 6 with 12-inch spacing in 42-inch rows. The field was fertilized with two tons of stable manure plus 200 pounds of 7-7-7 at planting and two side dressings of 100 pounds ANL each.

Dale Gainey, 15-year-old Wayne County youth, won the Coastal Plain regional title with a yield of 139.3 bushels. The Piedmont winner was Charlie Barbee of Stanly County, whose yield was 129.2 bushels.
Gainey and Barbee will receive one $100 savings bond each. All of the prizes are donated by the North Carolina Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., and will be presented at the annual meeting of the 100-Bushel Corn Club at State College on January 26 and 27.

More than 500 new members will be inducted into the 100-bushel club at the meeting held jointly with the N.C. Crop Improvement Association and the N.C. Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.

The two-day program will include talks by L.F. Graeber, agronomist of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture; Dr. I.O. Schaub; Dr.R.W. Cummings; and disease, insect, and engineering specialists of the College staff.


Other features of the meeting will be the annual Future Farmers of America crops contest, the 4-H Club corn speaking contest, and the annual State seed exposition.

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