. Corn book for young folk. Corn. 148 CORN BOOK FOR YOUNG FOLK will be no washing away of costly plant food ? Does not the luxuriant growth of stalks convince you that the soil is rich ? Do you find any crop between the rows? Just as the boy is about to decide on this field his eyes fall on a field in front of him. Such a field is pictured in Fig. 117. Do you find that this field has all the good qualities of the field in which the boy is standing? Do not fail to note the cowpeas grow- ing in this field. Bearing in mind that cowpeas en- rich soil, would this field have an advantage over the ot
. Corn book for young folk. Corn. 148 CORN BOOK FOR YOUNG FOLK will be no washing away of costly plant food ? Does not the luxuriant growth of stalks convince you that the soil is rich ? Do you find any crop between the rows? Just as the boy is about to decide on this field his eyes fall on a field in front of him. Such a field is pictured in Fig. 117. Do you find that this field has all the good qualities of the field in which the boy is standing? Do not fail to note the cowpeas grow- ing in this field. Bearing in mind that cowpeas en- rich soil, would this field have an advantage over the other? If it is just as good in all other qualities would the boy be right in taking the last field ? Would you select it ? If a 3^oung farmer is bent on raising high-yielding corn crops, will he not have to keep his land free from the drawbacks just considered? Compare the field in Fig. 118 with the fields in Figs. 117 and 119. Carelessness and ignorance have caused the soil in the first field to lose its power. Skill and knowledge have kept the latter fields full of plant Fig. 119. This Crop shows Skillful Handling of the Soil. 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 Williams, Charles Burgess, 1871-; Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1859-1924, joint author. Boston, Ginn
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