. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. TIME OF PLANTING 161 draft, but leaves no flat surface to bake in the sun. The double wheel tends to cover the hill more surely. Improved methods of culture together virith the increasing preval- ence of weeds have caused the practice of checking corn to grow in popularity. Of 200 representative farmers from different parts of Iowa, 92 per cent check their corn. The reasons given for so doing were the more effective eradication
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. TIME OF PLANTING 161 draft, but leaves no flat surface to bake in the sun. The double wheel tends to cover the hill more surely. Improved methods of culture together virith the increasing preval- ence of weeds have caused the practice of checking corn to grow in popularity. Of 200 representative farmers from different parts of Iowa, 92 per cent check their corn. The reasons given for so doing were the more effective eradication of the weeds, and in some cases in- creased yield. On ground which has been well prepared and which is not too hilly, it is possible for one man to plant 12 to 15 acres per day. The objections raised to checked corn are a greater tendency to blow down in heavy summer winds and the fact that the roots are not so equally distributed throughout the soil. There is practically no difference in the yield per acre between drilled and checked corn, providing there are the same number of plants per acre. Time of Planting. The best yields and most mature corn are pro- duced by planting corn early. Years of experience has proved this fact conclusively. The length of season in a given locality determines the date of planting. In Iowa, corn must be planted at) soon as the ground is properly prepared and suffi- ciently warm, not colder than 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Very little seed is in the ground before May ist, and the northern counties are even later. On sod land, where the cut worm is quite prevalent, late planting must be practised. As better seed corn is used from ycdr to year, earlier planting will come more into vogue. Corn of strong vitality can be placed in cold ground with less risk than that of weak germinating power. Soil conditions have as much to do in de- termining the date of planting as does the weather. For example, farmers on the Missouri loess soil in northwestern Iowa,
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