. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing;. Corn. FREQUENCY OF CULTIVATION 185 At the Kansas Agricultural College, experiments were carried on to determine the advisability of frequent cultivation with the following results: (Note the variation in yield in different seasons, which was probably due to climatic conditions. No profitable returns resulted from excessive cultivation.) TABLE NO. 40 FREQUENCY OF CULTIVATION Times Cultivated During Season Once Twice Three times Four times _. Five times _. Six times __- Rate of Yield per Acre in Bushels 1891 1895 1896 23.
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing;. Corn. FREQUENCY OF CULTIVATION 185 At the Kansas Agricultural College, experiments were carried on to determine the advisability of frequent cultivation with the following results: (Note the variation in yield in different seasons, which was probably due to climatic conditions. No profitable returns resulted from excessive cultivation.) TABLE NO. 40 FREQUENCY OF CULTIVATION Times Cultivated During Season Once Twice Three times Four times _. Five times _. Six times __- Rate of Yield per Acre in Bushels 1891 1895 1896 TWO-ROW RIDING CULTIVATOR Besides having four shovels to loosen up the soil, the front shanks are equipped with a short knife blade which cuts off the weeds next to the hill. After investigating the frequency of cultivating corn for the years i888, 1889, 1890, the Illinois Experiment Station concluded that no appreciable benefit was derived from frequent cultivation nor from cultivating after the ordinary season for cultivating was past. The soil on which this trial was made was a black, friable loam, (Bulletin No. 13, Illinois.) Kinds of Cultivators. This is governed largely by the kind of soil, character of the land, and very often by the help which may be 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 Bowman, Melville Le Roy, 1881- [from old catalog]. Waterloo, Iowa, Sold by Waterloo publishing co.
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