. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FARM PRACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OP CORN. 13. Fig. 3.—A stalk cutter. This implement is used, before plowing, for chopping up stalks and other vegetable matter on the land. purpose as tile drains, but occup}7 much land that might be culti- vated if tiling were used. It is probable that this land will be tiled when the relative value of the land occupied by the open ditches is equal to the cost of the tiles. Tile drainage is practiced extensively only on the most productive soils where land values are extremely high, as
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FARM PRACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OP CORN. 13. Fig. 3.—A stalk cutter. This implement is used, before plowing, for chopping up stalks and other vegetable matter on the land. purpose as tile drains, but occup}7 much land that might be culti- vated if tiling were used. It is probable that this land will be tiled when the relative value of the land occupied by the open ditches is equal to the cost of the tiles. Tile drainage is practiced extensively only on the most productive soils where land values are extremely high, as in the corn belt of Indiana and Illinois. Tillage before plowing is prac- ticed most often to break up the stalks left from the previous crop. Where the stalks (mostly cotton and corn) grow rank, better plowing can be done and this vegetable matter decays more quickly if broken up be- fore plowing. These stalks are usually cut with a disk harrow or stalk cutter (fig. 3). In a few localities tillage before plowing is practiced to conserve moisture and to prevent the land from breaking up cloddy, as in western Kansas, where the land is har- rowed with a disk in the spring and the corn is planted with a lister without further preparation. PLOWING. The choice of time for plowing, whether in the fall or spring, is governed largely by the character of the crop which occupies the land the previous year and by the type of soil. When corn follows sod, more land is generally plowed in the fall than when corn fol- lows some cultivated crop. When land is plowed in the fall it is usually broken deeper than when plowed in the spring. In some sections corn land is Fir;. 4.—A lister, or middle Luster, an 1m- plowed in the fall and replowed plemenl extensively used in the south- ju t]ie spring before planting. western com states. . - , . I his practice is recorded m Table VI under "Fall and spring ; In a few sections the land is sometimes plowed in the I'all and then list
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