Show essential in corn culture A speaker at an ail iowa meeting of farmers remarked that there are four essentials sen to the production of first class corn proper preparation of the soil booi gooi good seed uni uniform distribution and thorough cultivation if the scurf surface ace soil is properly cared for the subsoil will A ill take care of itself it is a question whether summer plowing is good A n hero here land must be subject to action of if mud and rain drill planting is preferable putting kernels 12 to IG 10 inches apart in the rows drilled corn will vill mature 10 days sooner than hill bill planted and is easier to the objection to drill cultivation ol 01 corn ought not to be considered iio now v that improved tools exist for tending it in hill culture there can be no uniformity of cultivation its as regards time between pl owings while with drilled corn all can bo be treated alike the planted field should bo be gone over once in four days before the corn is up arid and as often after that as is poc possible Asble the assertion was made that tile lays daya of long pointed shon h els cis are numbered and they ahou 10 be done away with altogether the increase from shallow cultivation was avas equal to 20 per cent the ad advantage vanta e of 0 klu shallow illow cultivation is more noticeable in a dry season than in a wet one |