Show CULTURE OF KAFFIR CORN ReeomnuotUd In a Hullvtln of the Irma sae SUU ArleaUur toUfe Button Kaffir com cu bo grown in regions too dry for corn It Is possible to grow It In semiarid regions where corn rarely succeeds This tenacity of life is also manifested by its sprouting again from tho roots und producing a second and even a third crop after it Ins been cut From tho Kansas station cornea Ibo following fol-lowing directions for cultivating tbW crop t The seed bed should < bo prepared all respect ns for corn Tlio finer tho i tilth the better It can to planted either I In hills or iu drills Irefereueo is l given to tho latter method It can stand thicker thick-er than corn but there la a limit to the crowding process which should not ho passed when a maximum crop is do sired Aa to methods of feeding vo have adopted the plan of seeding with u grain drill mlth press wheels Dud it Works satisfactorily It is ui eight shoo dtlU with the shoes eight inches apart By leaving tho first and tho fifth feed open and closing nil tho others In Ibo seed box MO plant two rows nt a tlmo 03 inches apart noel by experimenting with the amount discharged it will soon bo seen how to net Ibo fqcd bar in order to sow the right quantity Six to seven pound to the acre is I nn abundance anti If the need ia f clean mid not cracked in thrashing less will answer Tho richer Ibo soil tho larger the plants will grow and tho moro room they most havo Rows S3 inches apart allow sufficient space for cultivation and the stalks should stand from 4 to 0 Inches apart in the row according to tho richness of tho sell If listing Is f practiced at all it should bo very shallow Tho plants arc of slow growth during the first elx weeks and deep lister furrows do not admit of proper prop-er cultivation for BO email plants Surface Sur-face planted feed should bo harrowed with n smoothing harrow soon nIter it is I np In order to kill tho weeds just germinating In other respects cultivate as for corn Cultivate shallow especially especial-ly near tho row Wo use n spring tooth cultivator iu preference to tho old fashioned fash-ioned largo shovel plows Cultivate enough to keep tho weeds down and tho surface mellow until it begins to head In uu nverago season Red KafQr corn will mature in about 13 to 14 weeks Planted Ibo mlddlo or latter part of May Ibo seed Is I ripe by the middle of September audit should bo harvested at once Tho fodder will remain green until frost but this fact should not bo raadn an excuse for putting oft the bar I listing Tho earlier it is cut after tho seed Is ripo tho more time will there bo for the stalks to core which is an essential essen-tial point especially If the fodder Is stacked Any of the funny good corn cutters now on tho market will do tho work When the seed has dried out fiuffleieiit Iy so II call ho stored which condition it will not rpnoh until tho end at No member It should bo thuicd It is I tmo that marry growers feed tho crop as it comes from tho hock geed and all but it la I n Wasteful Way of handling it though of cornso the cost of thrashing and grinding must bo taken into consideration consid-eration and doubtless there are conditions condi-tions under which this cost will exceed tho value of thownsto incurred by feeding feed-ing without thrashing or grinding Ono way of proceeding ift I to gather the heads in the Held as corn la I gathered before the crop is cut A better way is to cut the heads off in the shock after the seed is dry and thrash them at once |