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Show Tillage Is Manure. The old maxim that tillage is manure ma-nure has been shown to be true at Cornell university farm, where ei-periments ei-periments were made In that direction. direc-tion. Some plots of potatoes wera cultivated as many as eight times, and in every case the greater - tha number of times the plants were cultivated cul-tivated the larger the yields compared com-pared with plots on which fewer cultivations cul-tivations were given. The level culture was better than hilling. Two lots, cultivated eight times, left perfectly level .through the season, produced at the rate of 384 bushels and 357 bushels per acre, and three lots cultivated Ave times, produced 349 bushels, ,325 bushels and 2S8 bushels, the last lot being hilled at the final cultivation. |