. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FARM PRJ JTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OF CORN. 65 cane are grown only on the bottom lands. In collecting the data shown in Table XXX only those farms which grow corn were visited. Some alfalfa is grown on the bottom lands and in favor- able seasons does well. Most of the land is farmed by the owners, or the farmer may own a farm and rent other land in addition. The average size of the farms visited in this county is 655 acres, with 331 acres under cultivation. These farms are somewhat larger than the average for this regio
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FARM PRJ JTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OF CORN. 65 cane are grown only on the bottom lands. In collecting the data shown in Table XXX only those farms which grow corn were visited. Some alfalfa is grown on the bottom lands and in favor- able seasons does well. Most of the land is farmed by the owners, or the farmer may own a farm and rent other land in addition. The average size of the farms visited in this county is 655 acres, with 331 acres under cultivation. These farms are somewhat larger than the average for this region. The land in this section is very fertile and productive, and the limit- ing factor in crop yields is the amount of rainfall. The bottom-land farmers, because they can grow forage crops, keep more cattle and swine than the upland farmers, and their sources of farm income are cattle, hogs, and wheat. For the upland farms the income is principally from wheat. Xot enough fruit or truck is grown to supply home demands. The tillage methods with corn here are exceptionally uniform and represent the methods employed throughout the semiarid region of western Kansas and western Nebraska. Corn usually follows corn or kafir. The land is gen- erally harrowed in the spring with a disk harrow, and without plowing or further preparation corn is planted with a 4-horse combination lister and planter. This planter has a double mold- board and usually runs about 5 inches deep, throwing the dirt in both directions, and the corn is planted in the bottom of this furrow. The rows are usually 'â '>\ feet apart, with one stalk every 18 or 20 inches in the drill. In opening up this furrow most of the land is broken, but there is a strip directly between the rows which is not plowed. This strip is broken up during the cultivation. Alter the roin is up, the first cultivation is most often given with a i-horse 2-row disk cultivator designed for cultivating listed corn. At this cultivation the dirt is
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