. Corn book for young folk. Corn. THE FOURTH STEP IN CULTIVATION 191 What are the advantages of this system ? Can you not use this method on either flat or hilly land ? Can you not run your rows around the hills and thus save washing? Can you not, in like manner, run your rows with your terraces on broken land? Does not this drill- row plan provide more space for each stalk and pre- vent root crowd- ing? Will not a plant standing en- tirely alone find a greater pasturage of moisture and plant food than threeplants stand- ing in a hill ? On the other hand, will it not be harder to keep down wee
. Corn book for young folk. Corn. THE FOURTH STEP IN CULTIVATION 191 What are the advantages of this system ? Can you not use this method on either flat or hilly land ? Can you not run your rows around the hills and thus save washing? Can you not, in like manner, run your rows with your terraces on broken land? Does not this drill- row plan provide more space for each stalk and pre- vent root crowd- ing? Will not a plant standing en- tirely alone find a greater pasturage of moisture and plant food than threeplants stand- ing in a hill ? On the other hand, will it not be harder to keep down weeds and grass with tillage tools by this method, since you can run them only one way? Hence, for flat lands will the check-row plan not be cheaper than the drill-row method ? Third, where land is so gravelly or so sandy that water sinks rapidly into the soil, or in dry regions, what is the best method of planting? In these cases do you not need to work with nature and plant your corn where it can most easily reach moisture ?. Fig. 147. Flat Preparation for Planting. 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, 1871-1947; Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1859-1924. Boston, Ginn and Company
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