Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . (Courtesy Kramer) Fig. 76. ROTARY DISC ATTACHED TO it pulverizes the soil right off the mold board there is no chancefor the formation of clods. An Ideal sures perfect germination of viable seeds. Second. There should alsobe plenty of available plant food. This is dependent upon air and. (Courtesy J. W. Dunham & Son) Fig. 77. SMOOTH STEEL ROLLER. moisture as well as bacteria. Third. Freedom from weed the Disc. Experien
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . (Courtesy Kramer) Fig. 76. ROTARY DISC ATTACHED TO it pulverizes the soil right off the mold board there is no chancefor the formation of clods. An Ideal sures perfect germination of viable seeds. Second. There should alsobe plenty of available plant food. This is dependent upon air and. (Courtesy J. W. Dunham & Son) Fig. 77. SMOOTH STEEL ROLLER. moisture as well as bacteria. Third. Freedom from weed the Disc. Experience and experiments have proved the val- DISCS. 163 ue of the disc. The agricultural press has been urging the corn grow- ers to use it freely. Because the blades cut deeply into the newlyturned-up mold, the spaces between the larger lumps of earth arereduced and the whole mass settles down more closely to the sub-soil. The full-bladed disc harrow for the general purpose of pulverizingand loosening the ground is the best tool yet devised. It has the ad- ^^^^^adedvantage of being suitable for use on either sod, stubble or corn stalklands. The cutaway and spading discs are also used in a more limited Cutaway way, the former being adapted for cultivating hay lands, the latter spadingmore especially for corn stalk ground.
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