The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-04-20
for the farmer.
CORN CULTURE.

An acre of corn planted in hills four feet apart
each way contains z, ~ hills. u 0ne stalk De
left 10 the hill and each stalk yields pint,
which any ordinary ear viii DO q bushels 10
the product. -Four feet is altogether too wide.
and one stalk to the hill is not enough, and one
mint TO the stalk very low yield, yet Az bushels
is not bad crop to average. II two stalks;
however be left TO the hill, and each stalk yield
a mint. the number of bushels will be ~, and if
three stalks he left, yielding the same l26 bush
els is the product. Three stalks are too many
in the hill, but this number is not large num-
her 10 put upon an acre by making the hills
closer together or drilling in the rows:
Planting 81 feet each way, there VIII be j, isO
| hills. If each hill yield a pint, the acre will
Weld "a bushels. If each hill yield quart, the
| acre will produce los bushels. Extra line ears
| of corn will shell nearly quart, and ears have
| been known to exceed that amount. With two
stalks in n hill yielding three pints, the yield for
| an acre planted in this manner VIII be loo Dush
| els. ,
| stalks left Is inches apart in the rows, there
will be $50 stalks. With one pint to the stalk,
| This nIantin1 will give $50 bushels TO the acre,
| and with one pint and half to the hill, the
| Weld TO the acre will be 225 bushels. Rut the
rows of this planting will be too close for easy
| working, air and sunlight.
Three and a half feet distance for the rows,
and Il inches for the drilling, has been tried and
proyes 10 be about the best planting for the lar
rest Weld. everything averaged.
This will give STAG hills TO the acre With
one pint to the HILL the yield Will be rs bush
els: with /; pints the hill il will be 1872 bnsh-
els: with one quart TO the hill, the yield VIII be
| 256 bushels.
This amount probably has not been reached,
vet the GunpOwder Agricultural Club in Mary
land reports 223 bushels raised in that State on
Indian corn will stand an indefinite amount of
manuring and fertilizing, provided It have plen-
| ty of water, air and sunlight If 1t could be
supplied with these latter essentials, and could
| be got at for cultivation, it could be planted
much closer than any plan We have spoken OF IN
this article. Then, the largest number oil stalks
| that can be grown to the acre, yet letting each
one not encr0ach upon its neighbOr's earth, air,
sunshine and water, is the object to aim at. Soil
NAV be made SO rich, that nutriment becomes
| secondary consideration with the plant IN Its
| economy. So that planting for that matter
alone. might be indefinitely close. The thicker
| the planting the more air, sunshine, and water
| it will take for the supply, and could they he
secured and the ground reached to stir the soil,
| simple root space might be put down as a second
| or third rate consideration, for the plant, IN a
thoroughly s..rtilized soil, will lind plenty OF
| those elements that are taken from the ground,
| and the rootlets intermingle with each other
| without any more apparent encroachment below
| the earth than the blades experience above IN
| the air.
| To raise two hundred bushels of corn upon one
acre will require close planting and no ordinary
season will supply it with enough water upon
| upland. by artificial fertilization and cultiya-
| ton the production becomes so stimulated IN one
direction that other essentials must he increased
artifically to keep up proper balance, hence the
| more demand for water upon rich, thIckly-
| PLANTED soil Of course there are seasons when
there is sufficient rain for the dTyest soils plan
ted ever 50 closely.-HRorriiie Tribune.