. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. CULTIVATING LISTED CORN 191 In cultivating listed corn, especially where the field was only single- listed, a larger amount of dirt is moved and the shovels are set deeper in the ground. Deep cultivation when the corn is ready to lay by is less detrimental to listed corn, because the root system is much further down than in case of planted corn. Listed corn is slow in starting in the spring because its seed bed is lower down an
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. CULTIVATING LISTED CORN 191 In cultivating listed corn, especially where the field was only single- listed, a larger amount of dirt is moved and the shovels are set deeper in the ground. Deep cultivation when the corn is ready to lay by is less detrimental to listed corn, because the root system is much further down than in case of planted corn. Listed corn is slow in starting in the spring because its seed bed is lower down and not so warm. Many farmers become discouraged with the field of listed corn, because it looks yellow and spindling. But just as soon as it has been cultivated once, and especially after the second cultivation, the stalks begin to grow rapidly. The warm, dry weather of late summer pushes listed corn so much faster because its roots are drawing from a lower water table. This supply is most needed just when the ears are 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 Bowman, Melville Le Roy, 1881-. Waterloo, Ia. , Sold by Waterloo publishing co.
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