Manti Messenger | 1944-09-29 | Page 5 | Shallow Cultivation

I Shallow Cultivation Corn cultivation should should always be just as shallow as possible to avoid root injury Since roots cannot develop in the dry loose layer which constitutes the soil soils mulch shallow cultivation gives the growing crop a chance to use more of the plowed soil as a feeding zone Where the seedbed has been well prepared there is little or no value of cultivating cultivating cultivating ing corn more than is necessary in order to kill weeds except possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly in case of heavy soils which check badly Cultivation may be necessary on these soils to fill fiU large cracks and thus stop the direct loss loas of moisture from the deeper soil GOU la ors w J