. Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants). Agriculture. 172 80UTBEBN FIELD CROPS across the rows, though the direction is not always im- portant. 161. Usual tilling or cultivating implements. — The implements most generally used in corn tillage in the South are such as can be drawn by one horse or mule. Among these are the following: heel scrapes, sweeps, cultiva,tors. Fig. 86.—A Weeder. with many small points, and one-horse spring-tooth culti- vators (Fig. 87). Too often the cultivating implement is a scooter, shovel or other implement tilling or cultivating but a narrow strip of gr
. Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants). Agriculture. 172 80UTBEBN FIELD CROPS across the rows, though the direction is not always im- portant. 161. Usual tilling or cultivating implements. — The implements most generally used in corn tillage in the South are such as can be drawn by one horse or mule. Among these are the following: heel scrapes, sweeps, cultiva,tors. Fig. 86.—A Weeder. with many small points, and one-horse spring-tooth culti- vators (Fig. 87). Too often the cultivating implement is a scooter, shovel or other implement tilling or cultivating but a narrow strip of ground and running so deep as to cut many of the corn roots. The general rule should be to till corn shallow, that is, to a depth of 1^ to 2\ inches, unless there are special reasons for deeper tillage. Sometimes comparatively deep tillage may be justifiable while the corn is less than one foot high, especially on land that contains much clay and. 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 Duggar, J. F. (John Frederick), 1868-. New York, The Macmillan company
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