. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. GUt)D PLOWING JJS years held plowing matches which have shown the skill of the younger lads of the community. At Wick and Cherokee, Iowa, similar con- tests are carried on each year, at which time speakers from a distance are invited to speak and a day is set aside for a local picnic and edu- cational outing. A clean-cut slice both on its land side and floor. Besides indicating pride and interest in plowing, a clean land side a
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. GUt)D PLOWING JJS years held plowing matches which have shown the skill of the younger lads of the community. At Wick and Cherokee, Iowa, similar con- tests are carried on each year, at which time speakers from a distance are invited to speak and a day is set aside for a local picnic and edu- cational outing. A clean-cut slice both on its land side and floor. Besides indicating pride and interest in plowing, a clean land side and a consistent flooi of even width and deptli insures a complete alteration of structure. In-. l)IA(;K.â \^r siif)WiNc; the direction of the cap- TURES AND STRUCTURE OF THE SOIL EARLY IN THE SPRINT, AFTER THE SURFACE HAS DRIED OUT AND NO CULTIVATION HAS LLEN DONE. The lubes c^ilend to the surface and convey the moisture from below to their upper extremities, where it is discharged and carried away Ijy eyaporation due to the sun and the velocity of (lie wind. stead of the furrow slice being completely inverted it should be left more or less on edge in order to permit the most effective action of weathering agencies and of implements in the preparation of the seed bed. Uniformly plowed ridges. Where a small plow follows a larger one, often the ridges are very uneven. More surface is exposed for drying out, and, as a rule, the trash is not well covered. Fully twice as much work is required to get such a field in shape for the corn planter. This uneven ridging sometimes occurs on hillsides, in which case it cannot be prevented. Complete burial of the grass or stubble is also important. Depth of Plowing. This is a question that cannot be answered definitely, but must be considered in connection with the character of the soil, the time of the season, the climate, and the purpose to which the ground is to be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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