. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 162 CORN CROPS under the following spring. In the early days of com culture in the middle west, the corn stalks were usually burned. The common custom was to break down the frozen stalks with a log or an iron rail and later when the ground had thawed, they were raked with horse rakes into long windrows, and burned. For a week or two in each spring, the sky would be lit up every night by the. Fig. 41. — Two-row stalk-cutter. great burning fields of corn stalks. This
. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 162 CORN CROPS under the following spring. In the early days of com culture in the middle west, the corn stalks were usually burned. The common custom was to break down the frozen stalks with a log or an iron rail and later when the ground had thawed, they were raked with horse rakes into long windrows, and burned. For a week or two in each spring, the sky would be lit up every night by the. Fig. 41. — Two-row stalk-cutter. great burning fields of corn stalks. This so rapidly re- duced the organic matter in the soil that it soon became necessary to plow the stalks under, as is now the general custom, in order to obtain humus. To prepare for ploiving, the stalks are broken with a rail, as before, and then usually gone over with a sharp disk, to cut them up. The stalk-cutter is also in general use. This implement has heavy revolving cyhnders set with knives that cut the stalks in twelve inch lengths. Where the stalks are heavy it is more satisfactory than the disk harrow, although the stalk-cutter is often followed also with a 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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