The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., March 12, 1910, CORN SPECIAL, Page 194, Image 18

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HOW MR. FRENCH MAKES BIG
CORN CROPS.
(Continued from Page 182.)
extra team will follow at once with
the harrow; then again, and prob
ably yet again before the plants
are four inches high. We will do
this harrowing both to conserve
moisture and to discourage any one
of those millions of little weed or
grass seeds from taking root in our
corn fields.
Then when the plants are about
four inches in height, one team will
be hitched to the spring tooth sulky
cultivator, while the other horses are
at work fitting pea land, as we must
have the peas and soja beans to feed
with the corn, so we may balance
our own rations right at home.
If the weather is normal, we will
be able to get through our corn
about four times with the riding cul
tivators. Then we must keep the
work going with the single walking
tools in order to keep the soil loose
on top and discourage weed growth.
The main purpose we have in cul
tivating any crop after it is planted
“ to conserve moisture and kill
weeds. We do not take much stock
in the theory of freeing plant food
by these late cultivations for if the
early cultivation has been properly
done and the land well filled with
humus, the plant food will have been
made available already. Anyway the
Plant roots are not getting their
food at this time from this ......_
two inches of soil, but are down
below seeing what they can find
there, while we are looking after the
dust mulch that is keeping moisture
in the lower soil and making the
plant food there present available.
Silo Best Method of Saving the Crop.
We have done considerable plan
ning, a lot of work, and are reason
ably sure of a fair corn crop. Now
are we going to save all or only a
part of that which we have been
striving for? There is probably more
waste of time and product in har
vesting the corn crop than in the
handling of any crop we grow. The
old plan of pulling fodder, one blade
at a time, is something I have never
yet been able to make myself do I
am not very fast, but as the Dutch
man has it, “I is more fast as dat”
If it is a question of getting feed we
can take a big mower into a field of
crab grass and make feed ten times
as fast as any man can by pulling
fodder.
But still we want to save the fod
der too. The corn harvester helps
us out and I believe It a good tool
for any one having fairly clear fields
not too sandy. Deep sand, like mud,
ca“8®® heayy draft In a harvester
and the machine Is of course not as
profitable on farms when these con
ditions prevail. But the writer
thinks a great deal of his Deerlng
corn harvester, and could not do
without It Especially is the har
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vester a labor-saver when the corn
is stored in the silo. This is the
ideal method of caring for the whole
corn plant, for with the silo we save
practically all the crop we produce.
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HOW TO GET IT.
(Continued from Page 179.)
the last crop should not again need
so slow and expensive an implement
as the plow, and yet, bedding and
re-bedding of the land with a turn
ing plow taking four times across
the field to complete the bed, is com
mon throughout the South.
With the one-horse farmer this
may be unavoidable; but where the
work stock is sufficient, if bedding
must be done, it certainly should be
done with a reversible disc harrow
at one trip across the field.
In short, we believe that planting
on beds should be confined to moist,
cold land, planted early and that
then the bedding should be done
with a less expensive instrument
than the turning plow.
Depth Of Planting
fThe depth of planting is generally
given little consideration, as to the
needs of different soils. Early plant
ed crops, on cold damp soils, fre
quently suffer materially from too
deep planting, and on the other hand
late planted crops on dry soils, espe
cially those recently broken that are
loose, frequently fail to come up be
cause of insufficient moisture result
ing from too shallow planting. This
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You have decided to buy a tank and
have the convenience of running wa
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will be easier. Your stock will do bet
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If you have any special needs to meet in laying
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latter difficulty is very much in
creased by our custom of planting
on high beds which have not had
time to settle properly.
Use Two-Horse Two-Row Planter.
Corn and cotton planters have
come into pretty general use; but as
a general rule the one-horse one-row
planter is used. This, again, is neces
sary for the one-horse farmer and
perhaps desirable on rolling or
broken, rough land, where the rows
are short; but there is need for a
more general use of the two-horse,
two-row planters.
They are desirable, because on
suitable land, one man and two
horses will do as much work as two
men and two horses with one-horse
planters. Moreover, there is anoth
er important advantage, In that the
rows are planted more nearly the
same distance apart, which is of the
greatest Importance when cultivat
ors and other labor saving imple
ments are used for cultivating the
crops.
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