. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 0 ORN 1709 About 80 pef cent, of the world's corn is grown in the United States; Argentina and South Eastern Europe being next in import- ance. It is the one pre-eminent crop of J'iG. 121. Leaming Corn, Thirteen Feet High, Grown BY George Dunham, Schaghticoke, N. Y. CULTURAL METHODS So far as soil is concerned, corn is a cosmopolitan plant; it will grow on almost any soil and it is successfully produced on soils ranging from glacial drift clay to sands that blow in the wind. The ideal is alluvial
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 0 ORN 1709 About 80 pef cent, of the world's corn is grown in the United States; Argentina and South Eastern Europe being next in import- ance. It is the one pre-eminent crop of J'iG. 121. Leaming Corn, Thirteen Feet High, Grown BY George Dunham, Schaghticoke, N. Y. CULTURAL METHODS So far as soil is concerned, corn is a cosmopolitan plant; it will grow on almost any soil and it is successfully produced on soils ranging from glacial drift clay to sands that blow in the wind. The ideal is alluvial river valley soil with good natural drainage, and plenty of plant food and organic matter, such as is found in the corn belt states of the Mississippi basin. In some sections of the West, corn is grown year after year on the same land, but it is a wiser system to grow it in rotation with. 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 New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture; New York State Agricultural Experiment Station; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Albany : State of New York, Dept. of Agriculture
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