| Show corn objects Object sto to too much water soil should be well drained with plenty of humus or plant material corn wont grow well it it has wet feet this means according to a recent bulletin issued by the new york college of agriculture that soil needs to be well dral drained ned yet jet have plenty of moisture an abundance tor for litmus or rotten plant material likewise seems nn an essential tor for successful stul corn culture corn Is likely to do well in plowed over sod land especially where clover has been grown too stilt stiff clay soils are not advised added for corn plant Is if heavy feeder corn Is a heavy beavy feeder explains it at adams author of the tha bulletin on some soils its as much as ten or twelve tons of stable irk inn nure anure together with pounds of a fertilizer fertl ller rich in acid Is used to each here acre it would be interesting for you sou to fertilize til ize one half of your plot at this rate and the rest with onell one halt alf ns as much you can then determine whether athe the increased yield on the hie part more cheav lly fertilized paid for the cost of the extra fertilizer in figuring the mt coat of the extra fertilizers you should charge only half the value of the manure against your corn since much fertility Is left in III the soil for later crops the commercial fertilizer may be charged at full value anlue though on many soils especially clayey ones much of the plant tood food remains more than one year sear in the soil fall plowing best unless your sour soil tends to wash or run together it 11 Is usually best to plow in the full fall there are several good reasons for this first there Is more time to spare second plowed land unless very sandy retains for the use of summer crops more moie of the water from winter rains and snows third organic material decays better it plowed under this Is especially important if sod land Is used Hs as it commonly Is for corn fourth inserts insects are exposed to the winter w weather outlier and ninny many perish this also Is especially important in the case ot of sod land witch which 1 Is likely to harbor many injury ous insects fifth most clay soils soll sare aie made more loose and mellow by exposure to freezing ond and thawing after plowing the amount of further preparation which you sou hlll III need to make depends upon the kind of soli soil and the season you must mike make your our seed bed loose enough so that flint corn coin roots can readily penetrate it yet et compact enough to retain and you sou must keep it tree free from froin weeds professor adams new bulletin Is entitled corn growing for boys and girls it Is known n as JB S 8 while it Is intended especially for junior project workers it will be of value and interest to anyone who grows corn |
