| Show about growing Grow iii corn A speaker at a famous institute said in raising a crop of corn it Is as a rule economical to use three horses abreast abi east to the plow even with a twelve inch plow for one man will drive them as easily as he will two and they will do one third more work to the hand a matter of no small importance in the outcome the same may be said ol of harrowing it if the ground is not trashy requiring the harrow to be constantly lifted three or tour four horses abreast attached to double harrows will save nearly halt the manual labor in harrowing it if the ground is reasonably clean and correctly checkrowed check rowed the crops may be harrowed twice once preferably just as the corn is fairly sprouting and again the other way just as it it is fairly out of the ground so the rows lows may be seen it it gets higher a a hand should follow each harrow with a narrow garden rake to uncover any upon which clods may have fallen in cultivating a good jocia hand will cover but little corn and this he will uncover with the toe of the boot and generally without stopping the team covering the corn the later cultivation when the soil becomes pretty well filled with roots need only be shallow but here again the operator must be guided by circumstances As a rule early planting gives the best crop but a good crop need not be expected it if the land is either plowed planted or worked when wet it sometimes requires considerable sid erable courage to decide to wait when weeds are pressing when it is ia a question of having the crops smothered by weeds or of waiting we should take the chances on wet land rather than to wait |
