. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. CULTIVATED CROPS count the matter of saving seed corn is likely to be neg- lected, as farmers are very busy in the fall with other duties. Were the saving of the price of seed the only advantage gained in selecting seed corn on the home farm, one might be justified in neglecting it; but this is by no means the case. Adapted to Localities.—Corn in some respects is a ten- der plant, very easily affected unfavorably by cold weather conditions or cold wet soil, and favora])ly by warm weather and warm soil. On this account corn grown under one condition for
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. CULTIVATED CROPS count the matter of saving seed corn is likely to be neg- lected, as farmers are very busy in the fall with other duties. Were the saving of the price of seed the only advantage gained in selecting seed corn on the home farm, one might be justified in neglecting it; but this is by no means the case. Adapted to Localities.—Corn in some respects is a ten- der plant, very easily affected unfavorably by cold weather conditions or cold wet soil, and favora])ly by warm weather and warm soil. On this account corn grown under one condition for several years becomes adapted to those conditions and is not well suited to other conditions. No locality is suited to produce seed corn for any very large ter- ritory. Corn that does well in the north will grow and do well far- ther south, but as a rule a larger corn can be produced on most of the well drained soils of the south, and will yield more than the comparatively small corn grown farther north. Corn suited to Indiana conditions will grow if planted in northern Minnesota, but in average years it will not mature well, as the season is too short. The same varied condi- tions may be found on different farms in the same locality. Farms with a light warm soil, or well-drained farms on which the soil is kept highly productive by good methods of cropping, manuring, etc., can grow and mature a larger variety of corn than farms in the same neigh- borhood with heavy, and poorly drained soil or soils in poor Figure 32.—Two varieties of Dent Corn growing side side and given similar treatment. That on the right is mature, as shown by the drooping ears; that on the left is still quite green, as shown by the erect ears. Both are Yellow Dent Corn, but one later than the other by being grown under different c Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appeara
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