. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. MAIZE MAIZE 409 ticular cases in which the application of a few elements to the soil in rather moderate quantities greatly increases the corn crop, the production of corn on impoverished soils by means of commercial fertilizers is not profitable. It is usually advisable to apply the commercial fertilizers to a small grain crop grown in rotation with corn. Such an application of
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. MAIZE MAIZE 409 ticular cases in which the application of a few elements to the soil in rather moderate quantities greatly increases the corn crop, the production of corn on impoverished soils by means of commercial fertilizers is not profitable. It is usually advisable to apply the commercial fertilizers to a small grain crop grown in rotation with corn. Such an application of fertilizers will usually assist in obtaining a good stand of clover or grass which is to follow the small grain crop. Whenever possible, the land should be kept busy growing legumes or grasses that can be plowed under, and, briefly speaking, this is the best fertil- izer for corn crops. When corn is to follow wheat, it is usually advisable to sow with the wheat or in early spring clover or some similar crop that can occupy the land from the time the wheat is removed until it is ready for corn. Some of the most successful farmers always sow clover with their winter wheat, when the land is to be planted in corn the next spring. If found advisable to use commercial fertilizers for corn, it should not be placed in the hills with the kernels. It may be injuri- ous to the ger- mination of the kernels or, at any rate, it is not at the base of the stalks that the feeding roots of the corn plant are found. At the time of tassel- ing and silking the roots of the corn plant are well distributed throughout the soil to a width and depth of three or four feet. For soils that are very porous, or when very soluble fertilizers, such as sodium nitrate, are used, it is thought best to make the application but a short time before the plants begin to tassel and form ears. (Fig. 618.) Preparing the seed-bed.âWhenever possible, and it should be made possible in most cases, it is advi- sable to have
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