. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 202 COBN CROPS the soil is in poor physical condition and needs pulver- izing. Two-rowed cultivators adapted for use with either two or three horses are now in general use. If two-row cul- tivators are to be used, the rows should be straight and uniformly equal distances apart. With the two-row cultivator it is not possible to do as careful work close to. Fir:. 60. — Lat!> rultivation of corn, with narrow tooth plow. the row as when a single row is worked at a t
. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 202 COBN CROPS the soil is in poor physical condition and needs pulver- izing. Two-rowed cultivators adapted for use with either two or three horses are now in general use. If two-row cul- tivators are to be used, the rows should be straight and uniformly equal distances apart. With the two-row cultivator it is not possible to do as careful work close to. Fir:. 60. — Lat!> rultivation of corn, with narrow tooth plow. the row as when a single row is worked at a time. On the other hand, when the corn is clean in the row it may do all that is necessary in half the time. One horse cultivators are not used much in corn cultiva- tion, except occasionally for late cultivation where the plants are too high to straddle. For listed corn a variet}^ of tools has been specially devised. A spike tooth harrow is often used to level the ridges slightlj^ when the corn first comes up. Then a tool such as illustrated in Fig. 70 is sometimes used or, more commonly, a two-row tool of the tj-pe illustrated in Fig 71. The first time over, the disk followers are usually. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Montgomery, Edward Gerrard, 1878-. New York, The Macmillan company
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