The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-04-27

should be plowed in November ana
December, as deep as the soil will
admit of, so as to receive the beneht
of the winter freezing and thawing i;
but l have been prevented from
blowing my land in the above men
toned time on account of my wheat
crop. which was seeded unfortunately
very late. In the spring, the land
should be reiallowed, and as deep as
it was plowed in the fall, SO that the
young corn may get the benefit OF
the decayed vegetable matter which
was turned under in the fall, and the
harrows should follow closely after
the plows, as this will pulverize the
soil more finely and get the ground
! in much better condition Tor pant
ing than if you wait several days
after the blowing. Thorough pre-
paration is half the battle in making
a crop of corn, and the land should
be planted when freshly prepared
and free of grass. 1t the land has
been prepared before the weather is
warm enough to plant, the barrows
should be run over the land every
few days to kill out the young grass.
With us, we consider from the 10Th
TO the 18th OF May is the best time
to plant low grounds, as the soil does
not get warm enough, as general
thing, before that time; and II we
plant before the ground gets warm
enough we are sure to be troubled
with cut worm and bud worm, and
the corn does not grow off well when
the land is too cold. l think from
18th to Goth of April is time enough
to plant our high land. In planting
l use corn planter, and plant quite
thick to insure good stand, as that
is very important. Replanted corn
with me has always been trouble
some in the cultivation Of the older
corn, and hardly ever makes any
thing more than nubbins.
1t have bad stand, | would pre-
fer blowing up the whole and plant
ing again. l did few years since
pillow up twenty acres OF low grounds
upon which had bad stand, and
planted the 18th of June, and made
fine crop OF co1n-twice as much,
l am sure, as l would have made if l
had let the first planting stand.
/ use for seed a mixture of the old
gourd seed and flint corn, which is
very large and heavy-have raised it
to weigh ftty-eight pounds to the
bushel. l shall this year raise some
yellow corn, as / think it will make
more per acre than the white. 1t
natures sooner and is much stronger
and more nutritious for stock than
the white corn. | think it would
pay our farmers much better in this
section of the country to iced all
their corn to stock and sell the stock
instead of the corn, thus saving to
the land large amount OF fine
manure, without which we are not
able to keep up our farms.
My plan, in the cultivation OF corn,
is to commence as soon as possible,
after the corn has come up, with the
single pillow, running the bar of the
plow about five or six inches from
The corn and following Immediately
alter with the Malta plow, running
the Golfer attached 10 the Malta plow
as close TO The corn as possible, with
the bull tongue in the turrow made
by the plow. This mode Of cultiva.
ton leaves the ground loose and tria-
bic, and very little is lett for the
hoes to do, which should lmmedl-
ately follow the plows The dirt
thrown to the middle OF the row
etfectually kills all of the young
grass, and this ridge thrown up i'll
the middle OF the row will keep soft
and moist underneath, and will not
get so hard but that it can be thrown
back to the corn, even if it is in very
dry weather. II. M. DIETRICH.
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