. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. RAKING S'l'ALKS W) PREPARATION OF THE GROUND BEFORE PLOWING. Small grain stubble lana wliich is to l)e plowed in the f:ill should be disced thoroughly immediately after the grain shocks arc re- moved. The surface will dry out less and the weeds will receive quite a setback. The moisture which would have been evaporated from the surface will be stopped in its upward passage just beneath the sub uirface strata. The soil will rema
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. RAKING S'l'ALKS W) PREPARATION OF THE GROUND BEFORE PLOWING. Small grain stubble lana wliich is to l)e plowed in the f:ill should be disced thoroughly immediately after the grain shocks arc re- moved. The surface will dry out less and the weeds will receive quite a setback. The moisture which would have been evaporated from the surface will be stopped in its upward passage just beneath the sub uirface strata. The soil will remain loose and when plowed later will injt turn up in HEAVY CORN STALK RAKE. Stirs the ground move and will work where the liay rake is too light. Where the ground is low and sul:)jcct t(i (i\-errtow, iiften weeds grow so rank after har\'est as tn necessitate their being mowed before any plowing is dune. In localities which practice the short rotation of corn and oats or corn and wheat the stubljle is often cijvered with 1:)arnyar<l manure before plowing. The heat and moisture of autumn and the freezing of winter disintegrate the soil and deci impose the straw and other material to such an extent that liy planting time the follcnving spring the humus thus added is thordughly luixed wih the ; The rolling uplands in southern Iowa lack very much in humus, hence the stalks should always be incorporated in the already sticky silty soil. Corn planted the first year following sod, may produce such an excessive growth of stalks as to make raking necessary. Where corn is cut for silage the stubble may be split up and the rows leveled to advantage by discing before plowing. Land upon which fodder shocks have stood all winter is better treated thus also. But the greater number of fields in the corn belt are stocked with cattle *In case of a ^lowLli aitp'ii'ali'Mi "i ciiaise orj^aiiic nialnial In lir plowed iimlci', it is generally recufiiiizej that the
Size: 2250px × 1111px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectcorn, bookyear1915
