Show corn culture abo lapse of time 19 rapidly bringing us to the planting ami it is liine that wo were thinking of what shall bi dolp the seed corn procured the next tiling to demand our attention as alio planting will alio record of last years failures fresh in our minds il will hardly bo necessary to repeat the frequent warnings planting in wet soil un tho soil h naturally dry it ii a most business to plant corn unless drainage is adopted drainage il alic one matter clial coin growers must not shrink from the crop cincot browin a soil saturated with water the wafer must be evaporated ami if is a largo quantity to be evaporated the sun may not be able to accomplish the work in time to give the crop a stait before a drouth shall set in that was alie trouble with thousands of acres of corn last la st summer if however drainage is resorted to on low wet lands they make tho best corn land in tho world alio yield of corn in alii s country is only about thirty bushel and it ll 11 not much if any above that even in illinois this is a ridiculously low av crage and is tho result of keeping alic laud in corn 5 car after year poor cultivation and the failure to properly drain land cannot bo kept up by cropping to corn every year and artificial fertilizing will not remedy the evil cither on our western lands there is really no such thing as exhausting the fertility but tho soils become disorganized by keeping them under cultivated crops and there is no crop grown will disorganize alio llio soil as much as corn there must bo rotation in which grass shall eliy 1 very prominent part it wo would bring and keep our lanil in tho highest condition adopt such a system drain thoroughly prepare the ground well anil cultivate the crop thoroughly and on all such land as there is in lui nois at aca st there would be raised a hundred bushela of corn to tho acre corn should be planted as early as a s the ground 13 warm enough and to say the leat it is useless to plant it before it will not grow and it may lay and rot and tho ground will not be warm enough as long as it is full of water machinery has bacomo so perfect eliat hundreds of acra 3 can be planted now when but a fuw could be formerly on a farm of any size tho coin coi n planter will of course bal found blural i 11 jl i i ai |