. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . critical period of pollination there is always awant of soil moisture to be feared, since the rainfall atthe south is more variable. Consequently, land that atthe north would sustain and profitably fruit say seventhousand two hundred and eighty stalks to the acre,would at the south be taxed to the utmost to success-fully develop half that n
. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . critical period of pollination there is always awant of soil moisture to be feared, since the rainfall atthe south is more variable. Consequently, land that atthe north would sustain and profitably fruit say seventhousand two hundred and eighty stalks to the acre,would at the south be taxed to the utmost to success-fully develop half that number. Yet the gross weightof the stover from both acres would be, perhaps, prac-tically the same, although the southern plat, fertilitybeing equal, would yield a lower return in grain, anunavoidable inequality which nature has somehow seenfit to impose. For bottom land of course much greater crowd-ing than that scheduled for upland is permissible, andinvariably utilized—soil conditions more nearly paral-leling those of the great corn areas of the west. Therows are seldom or never contracted to less than fourfeet, but the hills vary from one and one-half to twofeet, and will sometimes, at the latter distance, contain CULTURE OUTSIDE CORN BELT I69. two stalks. Occasionally rich upland admits of thesame treatment as that practiced with bottoms. Regarding methods, there is one distinctive featureof difference to be marked in certain sections whereplanting in the water furrow is followed. Ordinarily,the land is broken, and with the careful cultivator har-rowed or fined, and the rows, whatever the distance,are run out with a shovel plow, on the level, fertilizerdistributed, and mixed with a scooter furrow, and thecorn planted therein, either with a dropper or by hand. But in the peculiara 1 j, practice referred to r l/\\ ^K broken by bedding to the center—toevery other row inthree feetland, or tofurrow inland. This leavesa deep water fur-row in the newmiddle. In thiswater furrow
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