. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. 152 CORN. time is needed lo decompose such turf, requires that it be plowed in the fall, thus allowing the freezing to break up the furrow slice. The closer the furrow slices are laid together, the greater the retention of moisture and consequent heaving. Because the roots fill the sur- face layer of soil so full of humus and undecayed organic matter that cultivation of the crop is difficult the first year, the mat of grasses o
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. 152 CORN. time is needed lo decompose such turf, requires that it be plowed in the fall, thus allowing the freezing to break up the furrow slice. The closer the furrow slices are laid together, the greater the retention of moisture and consequent heaving. Because the roots fill the sur- face layer of soil so full of humus and undecayed organic matter that cultivation of the crop is difficult the first year, the mat of grasses on the surface is usually burned before plowing, because the sod is slow in reconnecting the capillary tubes and "firing" of the corn often results during the summer because of this condition. Because of the newness of this soil and the large amount of plant food which is available early in the season, fiax is largely used for the first year's crop, especially in the northern districts. In the southern part of Iowa, the northern part of Missouri, and over a large part of Kansas, winter wheat is often sown the first year. Rotation of crops has 1 I now come to be a perma- • ^ nent factor in improved farming. Clover and tim- othy meadow, because of a short rotation in which corn is the heavy yielder and money crop, hardly ever becomes really sod- ded. Furthermore, be- cause corn follows them directly and is expected to produce heavily the first season, a greater amount of alteration in structure in the sod is desired. Hence a plow with steeper mold board is used. Plowing pasture lands and meadows in the fall has five distinct advantages. In the first place, the work can be done at a more slack time. Second, the freezing and STEEL JOINTER. Used to tear up stiff sod just in front of the mold 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 m
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