. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. Kinds of Grain iiT-ii- c Yield per Millions of Acf/in Acres Bushels Millions of Bushels Value ? Per Cent in Millions of Total of Dollars Value 2292 660 1019 472 Wheat 871 284 Barley 130 55 Rye 29 17 .9 Rice* .5 17 13 . t Buckwheat .8 14 8 A * Average for 1904-5 Fig. 76—Fiom the Stoiy County, Iowa, Expeiiment Station. One man's corn may yield eighty bushels per acre, while that of another man wil' yield less than forty bushels when grown side by side, under the same conditions.
. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. Kinds of Grain iiT-ii- c Yield per Millions of Acf/in Acres Bushels Millions of Bushels Value ? Per Cent in Millions of Total of Dollars Value 2292 660 1019 472 Wheat 871 284 Barley 130 55 Rye 29 17 .9 Rice* .5 17 13 . t Buckwheat .8 14 8 A * Average for 1904-5 Fig. 76—Fiom the Stoiy County, Iowa, Expeiiment Station. One man's corn may yield eighty bushels per acre, while that of another man wil' yield less than forty bushels when grown side by side, under the same conditions. Each spring, samnles of seed corn ate gathered from about one hundred farmers throughout the county. These samples are taken to the County Poor Farm, where they are planted by hand, three kernels per hill, each sample being repeated three times in different parts of the field. In a test of ninety-four samples, in 1904, the average yield of the five highest was seventy-seven bushels per acie, while that of the five lowest was but thirty-five bushels per acre, and of an inferior quality. Each county should have an Experiment Station on the County Poor Farm for the benefit of the two thousand to three thousand farmers in the county. The following table shows that the value of the corn crop annually exceeds the combined value of both the hay and the cotton crops: —77—. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holden, P. G. (Perry Greeley), 1865-1959. Springfield, O. , The Simmons publishing co.
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