Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-18

great mass of corn cultivators understand
this, and consequently one, two and even
three borrowings are often given with q
light harrow, besides the rolling to smooth
the land, up to the time the corn gets from
four to six inches high. Before the seed
appears above ground and until it begins
| to form leaves, there is no danger of moving
the crop, unless the harrow is run excess
sively deep or clogs with the distractions
from trash that may be left in and on the
land. After the corn gets fairly up more
care must be taken that the young blades
be not covered.
The weeds having been kept clear of
the hills until the corn gets strong enough
to bear little earth from the blades of
the cultivator, the crop is half made, and
| all that is then necessary is that they be
kept going to keep down weeds and lit
little earth added from time to time to the
hills, and the soil kept in good filth and
permeable to air and moisture till the crop
be two feet high. The last three years of
drOuth in the West have proved that a
heavy crop can be made although there be
but little rain succeeding.
Farmers sometimes make a mistake by
| supposing that the crop cannot be planted
| until the whole field be plowed, but the
soil should be fitted and planted as soon as
| sufficient land is plowed to enable the
planter to work economically, since, with
little calculation, the planter may be
made to meet, pretty accurately, the rows
| previously made.
From the first to the middle Of July the
| cultivation should be finished in the re-
gion of the West that is most especially
adapted to the culture of corn, but the
present season it may extend well on
towards August unless June should be I'M
usually favorable to growth, and in this
case it would render itstill more necessary
that particular diligence should be used in
the cultivation, for, as before observed, If
the weeds once make Roadway, the crop is
not only lessened but the cost of cultiva-
| ton is seriously increased.
| It was estimated early in the season that
| there would be old corn enough in the
country to more than supply the ordinary
consumption of the West even
although none were raised this year.
Our advices go to show that on
account Of the depression in price very
much less will be cultivated than usual
| We do not believe in intermitting the cul
tivation of crop because it happens to be
low. On the contrary it is a sagacious
policy, on this account, to use every en-
|
low, since a reaction in price is sure to
follow, and those farmers who continue tc
cultivate corn, the great fallow crop of the
West, and feed it out to meatproducine
animals on the farm, thereby enabling
them to attain increased results from the
cultivation of other moneyed crops, are
those who in the course of years reach the
best results in farming.
We do not want less corn IN the West
but we do want more stock to turn this
crop into manufactured products of fat
sheep, pork, and mutton. In other words,
the corn should not be sent to market in
its raw state, but in condensed form; in
bags Of hog skins, hides of ripe bullocks
and the pelts of fat sheep. Thus we may
see one way to circumvent high railway
tariffs, and make these living packages
hold ten times the amount that those OF
cotton, jute or linen would contain, and
at the same time save a large amount OF
fertilizing material, the want Of which is
already beginning to be felt in the West
-Wester7a Ru7az moss