. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. DO NOT NEGLECT FALL PLOWING 149 under, inasmuch as the simple loosening of the sod admits atmos- pheric oxygen and increases chemical action upon vegetable and min- eral matter. Fall plowing is one of the methods of combatting grub worms, cut worms and wire worms, which are often destructive to corn. Because the surface of soil plowed in the fall is dryer at plant- ing time in the spring than that of the ground not so treated,
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. DO NOT NEGLECT FALL PLOWING 149 under, inasmuch as the simple loosening of the sod admits atmos- pheric oxygen and increases chemical action upon vegetable and min- eral matter. Fall plowing is one of the methods of combatting grub worms, cut worms and wire worms, which are often destructive to corn. Because the surface of soil plowed in the fall is dryer at plant- ing time in the spring than that of the ground not so treated, it does not necessarily follow that there is less moisture in fall plowed TWO SECTION. 60 TOOTH. 10 FOOT SMOOTHING HARROW The teeth are adjustable by the use of the levers. In fact, fall plowed ground should contain more moisture for the growing crop the following season than that land plowed in the spring. With fall plowing the rain and moisture may better penetrate the sub-soil. Because of the rough surface much moisture is held which might otherwise be lost. Not infrequently poor management of fall plowed ground causes in the spring a very serious loss of moisture. Ground plowed in the fall should be thoroughly disced early the following spring to prevent heavy loss of moisture by evaporation When the ground is left in a rough condition not only will the stirred portion of the soil be readily acted upon and dried out by the winds and sun of early spring, but there is ready access to the sub-soil as. 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 may not perfectly resemble the original Bowman, Melville Le Roy, 1881-. Waterloo, Ia. , Sold by Waterloo publishing co.
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