Show GROW A BIG CROP WITH LESS LABOR federal specialists make suggestions gest ions on economizing with man power INCREASE CORN production tractors Trac tort and larger la implements will help farmers farmer machine harvester ers rather than hand cutters are advisable another big corn crop Is ner ded lost last years planting of acres yielded the largest crop ever harvested bushels there seems to be every reason to believe in tile the opinion of officials of the united ed states department of agriculture that our own welfare and that of the allies as well as neutral nations ronke desirable an even greater production of corn in 1018 1918 on an acreage equal to that in 1017 1917 increased production may mav be accomplished in a number of f ways ns and in it a recent publication of the united states department of agriculture ille ilie agricultural situation for 1018 part VIII corn specialists of tile department make suggestions regarding better methods the more es ashe use 0 of labor implements will wake make it easier tills year to approximate ill record breaking acreage or oc lust last year ear especially when employed tn ili sections ft where here corn is now grown profitably but on a more limited scale than Is ig des desirable tab e because present methods require it a large amount of man labor the more general use of recently developed and improved tractors lint flint are adapted to the uses bitses of tile the dinall sin ill farm as well vell as the large farm would tend to increase thoe acreage and to ti effect R n saving sang in imbor the use of larger plows plow sli barrows arrows and other instruments used in etting the land goulf vo ulf make it possible to accomplish moro moie work per ninn similarly tile the tion of two row planters and two row double cultivators in place of smaller and loss less ethelc nt implements would make it possible e 10 do 0 the id saine amount of work witt less expenditure of labor replant missing hills in sonie some corn growing sections it Is 19 the practice to replant hills as soon as the corn Is up tit to it hhand frequently tills this Is ilone 10 lie by dropping kernels by hand and coveting with n hoe A labor and quicker method would be the use of small tin liand I 1 planters these alese could he be used to nd ill vantage for the first planting also in sections where comparativo ely ly small areas are planted and where it Is nt it present the custom to ernp imp the corn by hand anti and rover with life line hoe it Is 19 tile the practice in some localities to plant if much larger lir er number of kernels than the hie number of stalks desired and to thin to tn tile the desired stand when the corn plants ore are about six to eight inches tull tall tills this ine method may be satisfactory where plenty of labor Is available aval lable lint where it la Is desirable to economize labor it would he be advisable to plant tested see seed nt at about the same rote rate as the stand desired desire mill all do no thinning A more general use of ed lelent hur har vesting veri liiK would pernile it more economical use of labor A corn hinder with nn for elevating the bun bundles lies of corn into it wagon should be used much more extensively than it ts is for pit age corn there Is also algo on the market a machine that converts we the corn into ensilage e in tile the lorld bield elevating it into a WIL 1901 front froin willell tt it Is sucked or alf lifted t ed into ohp silo folio tit the of either cither of these ill machines achin pt specialty tilt latter would to awny with the of f much laborious work work wor done by hand A large e of it the hie cutting and al locking of corri la 19 flone by hand labor in some sections because of unfavorable or other reab reasons ons it Is not practicable to t use time machine macli lne cutters however Ilo wever tile greuter breuler port of nf the corn that la 10 now low rut by hand labor could be harvested by bj economizing labor and doing the work la in a less laborious manner anner ni much 0 of O f the corn that Is now husked fro from althe the shocks could be handled more economically and with a saving in feed valtie vallie of stover by substituting ma inn chine buskers and sli edde for hand labor the use of corn pacers an aers would accomplish similar resul ti in the case of corn husked from tile hie standing stalks unloading find elevating machinery clit nery lit at the crib should be introduced tin and more generally used in many sections where it Is now unknown or riot not comin commonly used where such facilities are not available cribs should ile be constructed tit in such a manner that they can be filled and emptied with tile tho least possible labor for level ground double cribs with nith tin an elevated driveway and approaches that will enable the loads to be driven through the lie cribs and dumped or scooped out of the wagons without tiny any high pitching are very satisfactory |