| Show corn and buckwheat E L holden nolden describes in the country gen aleman fleman the results of two years when uben ho planted corn afier buckwheat and calls calla upon his brother farmers for a solution oi of the difficulties encountered he lie says 1 I 1 planted a piece of corn last spring on land part of which was buckwheat the year before the remainder sward swara land that bad had been mowed but one year and all treated alike as nearly as possible A fair coat of manure was under then a slight dressing spread oil on top and harrowed hat rowed in the corn was ras as all planted at the same time thile the rows rowa both ways but planted arloss both parts the result was where the buckwheat was v as laired the corn was much smaller than on tle the sard land not only in the growth grov gros th of stalk but in the size and number of ears in fact there was a great many hills bills on the buckwheat ground that never st bet an ear car chile all on n it the he ward va r I 1 part was well eared and wel wei q e I 1 fi led now what caused this ibis great difference en ce the tiie grou drou rou 1 d I was all alike a sand loama loam a and d was as all seeded with ith i clover and timot liy uth ith patst oats two years berdies and that part that had the buckwheat was not mowed at all but grass grasa turned under bedfor sewing tha the buckwheat thi thio o was the second time that I 1 had planted corn after buckwheat and the tha result resi rest it the same both times I 1 would like to understand the reason rason brother farmers please give us y ur experience in this matter |
