For more and better corn in the Northwest .. . re-quent to warm soil, kill weeds, and conserve moisture. Fre-quent cultivation is essential to early maturity. 10. Remember that the early maturing ears selected fromyour own field between September 10th to 16th before freezingweather and properly cared for will be the best seed for yourfarm next year. CORN IMPROVEMENT IN NORTH DAKOTA Results of a Practical Elxperiment on the 1 H CDemonstration Farm, Conducted by J. G. Haney,Agricultural Elxtension Department For the purpose of further demonstrating the possibilities ofgrowing corn and alfalfa in
For more and better corn in the Northwest .. . re-quent to warm soil, kill weeds, and conserve moisture. Fre-quent cultivation is essential to early maturity. 10. Remember that the early maturing ears selected fromyour own field between September 10th to 16th before freezingweather and properly cared for will be the best seed for yourfarm next year. CORN IMPROVEMENT IN NORTH DAKOTA Results of a Practical Elxperiment on the 1 H CDemonstration Farm, Conducted by J. G. Haney,Agricultural Elxtension Department For the purpose of further demonstrating the possibilities ofgrowing corn and alfalfa in North Dakota, the AgriculturalExtension Department of the International Harvester Companyof New Jersey leased a half section farm for a period of fiveyears. The year 1912 was a poor corn year as the season wasunfavorable, especially so because of a wet fall and a killing frostwhich came before much of the corn was matured. We wereable, however, to secure enough locally grown seed to plantabout two hundred acres over which we had Gathering Seed Com on I H C Demonstration Farm CORN IMPROVEMENT 25 Weather Conditions Unfavorable Owing to the fact that we did not get the farms until thespring of 1913, there was no work done in the way of preparationand nearly all of the ground had to be spring plowed. We alsohad the disadvantage of starting with a farm that for nearlyforty years has grown nothing but wheat and to which there hasbeen practically no fertility returned in any form. The spring of 1913 was cold and backward and the rainfall forthe growing months was unusually light as is shown by thefollowing report from the State University farm, which adjoinsour f arm^: April, inches July, inches May, To August 15th, .27 inches June, The corn land was all plowed, packed and harrowed immedi-ately. As weeds had started, some of the earliest plowing wasdouble-disked and harrowed again immediately before began planting on the 12th of May and c
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