. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Pig. 26.—A corrugated roller or pulverizer, an im- plement used in Moultrie County, 111., and other sections of the Middle West. Pig. 27.—A 2-horse disk cul- tivator used in cultivating corn in Moultrie County, 111. this is followed by a spike-tooth harrow. This leaves the land prac- tically level and in very fine conditino. Planting is done in most cases with a 2-row edge drop planter in checks 3^ feet apart each way, alternating the hills with two and three grains. While the corn is coming up, or right after it gets
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Pig. 26.—A corrugated roller or pulverizer, an im- plement used in Moultrie County, 111., and other sections of the Middle West. Pig. 27.—A 2-horse disk cul- tivator used in cultivating corn in Moultrie County, 111. this is followed by a spike-tooth harrow. This leaves the land prac- tically level and in very fine conditino. Planting is done in most cases with a 2-row edge drop planter in checks 3^ feet apart each way, alternating the hills with two and three grains. While the corn is coming up, or right after it gets up, the field is harrowed once or twice with a spike-tooth smoothing harrow. If the field is cloddy, a corrugated roller is used before the harrow. After this harrowing most of the cultivating is done with a 2-horse 6-shovel cultivator or a 2-horse disk cultivator (fig. 27). Usually three or four cultivations are given in alternate directions. A type of implement known as the surface cultivator (fig. 28) is fre- quently used, especially for the last cultivation. This implement, instead of having shovels, is equipped with four long sweeps, which are very similar to the knives of a stalk cutter. These sweeps run two on either side of the row and about 1 inch deep. They are set at an angle to the soil of about 45°. The sweeps cut off and destroy the weed growth much more effectively than do the 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 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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