Show GROW A BIG CROP WITH LESS LABOR Federal Specialists Make Sug Sug- Suggestions gesti ris on Economizing With Man Power o. o INCREASE CORN PRODUCTION Tf N I Il l- l I I Trac Tractors or and Larger Implements Implement Will Help Farmers Farmers Machine Machine ne Harvest Harvest- 1 J pr ers rl Rather Than Hand Cutters Cut- Cut p r- Are Advisable Another big guru Com m Crop Is needed Last years year's planting of ot acres yielded the largest hugest crop ClOP ever eyer harvested har har- vested vested ested bushels There seems to be ever every reason to believe in fa the opinion of officials of ot the United Uniti Unit Unit- i ed et d States department of agriculture that our own welfare and that of ot the We shies allies ns as well as neutral nations make d desirable an nn even greater grenter production I of corn in 1918 1018 on an acreage approximately r mutely equal to that planted In 1917 1017 I increased production may be accomplished pushed In a number of ways and in a n recent publication of ot the United States department of agriculture The AgricUltural AgricUltural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural Situation for 1918 Part VIII Corn specialists of the department make lUIke suggestions regarding better methods The more extensive use of ot saving labor Implements will make it easier this year to approximate the record breaking acreage of last year ear especially when e employed In sections where corn is now grown rown profitably but on a more limited scale than is desirable because present methods require a large amount of man labor The more gen general r i use of recently developed lev lope an and l improved l ro Cd tractors that I ate are adapted to the uses of ot tb small farm as well weIl as ns the large farm would tend to increase the acreage and to effect a favl saving in n In lal labor or The use of ot larger plows pows harrows I and other Instruments instruments I ments used In fitting flUng the land lantI would 1 make It i possible to n accomplish more mor work per man Similarly the substitution substitution tion lion of two-row two plant planters rs and two-row two double cultivators In place of smaller and less efficient implements would make it possible to do the same amount of work with I less s expenditure of t labor Replant Missing Hills In some growing corn-growing sections It Is the practice t to replant missing hills bills as ns soon Eoon as ns the corn is up t to a n stand Frequently this Is done by dropping kernels Shy hy land hand and covering with a hoe A saving labor and mid quicker method Ie would o be t the use I C of sm small lI hand planters These inese could como oe De used to nd- nd advantage ad ao- vantage e for Cor the first planting also In sections factions here where comparatively small areas 4 S I are are planted and antI where It Is at nt fires nt the custom to drop the corn by IW hand and cover with the hoe It is I the Ih practice In some localities to plant a much larger number of ot kernels than the number of ot stalks desired and to thin to the desired stand litand when the corn plants are about six to eight inches tall This method may be satisfactory r where plenty of ot Jabor Is available but where It is desirable de de- to economize labor It would be advisable Ild to plant tested seed at about the same rate as the stand desired and do no thinning A more general use of efficient harvesting harvesting har bar vesting machinery would permit a amore amore more more economical use of ot In labor or A corn com binder with an attachment for elevating elevating ing trig the bundles of ot corn corn Into a wagon should Be lie use used I much more extensively than it is for im harvesting ensilage corn There is also en on the market marlet a n machine that converts the corn Into ensilage in the Ule field elevating ele It Into a wagon from which It Is la suCk sucked d or lifted into the silo The use of oC either of these machines especially the latter Hitter would do away with the necessity of much laborious work Work V Done by Hand A large percentage of the cutting and md shocking of oj corn corn cornIs Is done by hand hantI tabu In In some sections because of unfavorable topography or other reasons It is not practicable to use nse machine cutters However the greater part of ot the of-the the Ule corn that Is now cut by hand labor could be I harvested t tI by machinery economizing l b r and antI doing the work it Ir a less Jess Jess' laborious manner Much of the corn com that Is now husked from th the shocks could be handled more economically and with fth a saving In feed value of stover stover by substituting machine machine ma mn- chine huskers buskers and shedders she tIel's for hand labor The use of ot corn com pickers would accomplish similar results In the case of corn husked from the standing stalks Unloading and elevating machinery machinery ma mn- chinery at the crib should be Introduced Intro Intro- introduced and antI more generally used In Inmany many sections where It Is now unknown unknown un un- un known or not commonly used Where such facilities are not are Snot not available a cribs should hould be constructed in such a manner that they can be tilled filled cd and emptied with the least possible labor For level ground double cribs with I an elevated driveway wa and approaches that will enable the loads to be driven through the cribs and antI dumped or scooped out of the wagons without an any high pitching are very ery tory It Is not too late Inte in most sections to test seed corn Five or six days s 's are ample for the the- test Never before has hns hasit it been of such Importance to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the germination of at seed corn before before before be be- fore planting Because of ot unusual conditions conditions conditions con con- last season eason much of ot the seed seel held over o will not be fit to plant at least at the regular rate of seeding The germination test will show V how much of ot the seed will grow V. Let the rag doll tester make this determination tion for you Your Tour county agent or your agricultural college or or If It you have time to write to Washington tilt this department of agriculture will describe the use of ot this simple device It willbe will willbe be he well specialists of the department of ot agriculture say soy to retain all ears cars showing a germination of GO CO per cent centor or more The poorer germinating ears will have to be used If It the supply of teed seed germinating SO 80 per cent or better I Is not sufficient Keep heep the poorer pooler seed separate and If It must be bp used usell plant It thicker than the rest |