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Show CORN ON DRY FARMS Land for This Crop Should Be Plowed Very Deeply. Fall Plowing Will Accumulate More Moisture Than Disking snd Harrowing Har-rowing Listing Is Considered Consid-ered Dangerous. Many of onr states have awakened to the fart that their yields of corn average far below what they consider fair crops, and to encourage deeper plowing and better work generally have been offering prizes for heavier production. In Georgia, the prize for tho beBt acre ol corn was won by n boy of eleven, Joseph Stone of Chester, on eight-year-old land. He plowed ten inches deep, then cross plowed 14 Inches deep, then subsolled where the rows were to be planted, 22 Inches deep; used shout ten dollars' worth fertilizer to the acre; cultivated so as to leave three cultivator furrows, then again leaving only two furrows, after that with other implements, and rained 102 bushels per acre. I quote the above to show the necessity of deep plowing for com. All the other records for corn this last year yere made by deep plowing methods, writes K. R. Parson In the Dry Farming Hulletln. The land for .bis crop should be plowed as deeply deep-ly as possible, but not packed, for the reason that packing favors top growth, and If we have a wet spring, followed by dry weather, the corn Is liable to overgrow Itself and produce a crop of baggy ears all husk and no corn. On the other hand, loose ground favors fa-vors root growth. The top does not grow too rank, and as soon as the dry weather comes, the corn, having plenty of root and not weakened by a top of heavy foliage, goes to making ears, and we get a much better crop than If tho plant Is allowed to overgrow over-grow at the start. Fall plowing will accumulate, as a rule, more moisture than disking and harrowing, but to secure good results, the land must be plowed again In the spring, before planting. Where the precipitation does not fall below 14 Inches, corn can bo rained every year by plowing ten Inches or more and planting one grain In a hill from 24 to 30 Inches apart, according to the corn; but the land should be kept rough cultivated Or plowed during the winter tionths, or as soon as the cattle are taken off. Many farmers list In their covs) In bard land without any plowing at r.H, and consider It hard luck when their Lfiifsfall 'n dry years. In many of' in ay"rVglonB, CO-bushel crops have been raised by good plowing. Liming Is dangerous for another reason; wel sometimes get an extra heavy stonuf1 which will fill the lister furrows nrfd completely bury tho corn. , I The wheels of the corn planter will usually pack the land sufficiently for seed germination In the row. The cultivation cul-tivation should be deep and rough, and always across the slope when there Is any. We are fully aware that level cultivation prevents evaporation, evap-oration, but In the "cloud burst" states It also favors run off, and experience ex-perience shows that we gain more than we lose by saving the run-off at the exiense of some evaporation. The ground should be cultivated as 1Mb in the season as possible In order or-der to put it In a receptive condition for the heavy summer rains which often make the crop. It Is a mistake to continually cultivate corn during a drought; It creates too fine a muk-h. makes mud, and stops penetration when finally the rain comes. All that Is necessary Is to break the crust and maintain a good three-Inch mulch. In times of severe drought, a crust mny form under the mulch; but If the mulch Is Intact, there 1b no more evaporation than before, and the deep plowing and the moisture in the subsoil will bring the crop through. |