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Show CORN IB KING. Successful Farmer Telia How Ha Raises Hundred Bushels Per Acre. I have railed more than 100 bushels of corn per acre three times during the last four years, and expect to have mora than 100 bushels per acre this year. I did It In this way, explains I. F. Andrews, In Farm Journal. I take my hay crop off and then let the second crop grow unpastured until It Is at Its best, then I plow It down and sow to rye; In the spring I manure ma-nure the rye and let it grow until almost al-most the first of May, when the rye Is coming Into head. I plow rye and manure down, put on 26 bushels of lime per acre, and sow It to corn, putting put-ting 125 pounds of rock fertilizer to the hills per acre. I mark out the corn rows three fept eight Inches each way, plant four grains to the hill, and later pull out the smaller plants to two to the hill. I cultivate the corn both ways until you can see neither horse nor man over the top of the corn. When the corn is ready to cut I haul it off; and seed the field to wheat and grass. I never leave the grass crop more than one year, so I need only three fleldB for my rotation. I select the thickest, longest-grained corn that I can find for seed earB that will shell about one quart of shelled corn per ear. Some critics say that thick cobs are a waste; but grains one inch In length around a thick cob will shell more than twice the quantity that short grains around a thin cob will shell; and I raise corn for the corn, the cob going In the bargain. bar-gain. I always mix my seed corn, that Is, I put one peck of the best corn I can buy to each bushel of my own selected seed, and mix well. When the corn comes Into tassel I take a broom handle with a knife at the end, and pasB through the corn, clipping off the tassel of the weaker one of the two stalks In each hill; and If the difference In the stalks li not too great, the clipped stalk will have the larger ear. I like a strong stalk to furnish the pollen, and one tassel to each hill Is amply sufficient to fertilize fer-tilize all the corn. I can clip the tassels tas-sels off two acres of corn In one day. If smut appears on the tassel or any part of the corn stalk, I clip off with the knife, and those stalks make full ears; while If the smut was left on, they would not produce any corn, or at best only shriveled amall ears. I seldom sel-dom have six hills missing per acre, as I replant as soon as the bladea peep above ground. And If birds or something some-thing else destroy some hills when too late to replant corn grains, I replant with corn stalks, and raise full ears on such replanted stalks. Thoroughness Thorough-ness pays. |