Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-23
How TO Plant Indian Corn.
From the Mass. Ploughman.I


From the Mass. Ploughmln.I
The question as to what particular
method of planting corn, so far as relates
to the arrangement of stalks, is best, has
long been discussed, and there is to-day
quite as wide difference of opinion as
there was twenty years ago. While some
believe in planting in hills others believe
1t best to plant Ill rows, ana while some
believe in planting the hills two and one
half feet apart with three or four stalks
in hill, others believe it best to plant
four feet apart each way, with five stalks
In hill others who plant in rows differ
rs to the distance the rows should be
from each other, varying from three and
one-hnlf feet to five or six feet. Each
claim to have the best way.
In deciding the best method it is well
to keep in view the fact that the best way
is that which will produce the corn the
cheapest. Because more corn can be
grown by any particular arrangement of
stalks, 1t by no means follows that it is
best. Some years since great variety
of ways was tried to test die question us
to what arrangement would produce the
most corn to the acre the result was that
where single kernels were planted one
foot apart each way there was the most
corn but the additional labor was more
than the value of the increased product
When planted i'll hills ut equal distances
each way. 1t very much reduces the labor
of cultivation if the right system be
adopted very little hand work is needed
to keep the field perfectly clean. Aftei
many experiments the following has been
adopted as the best method by one who
hires nll the labor, and grows corn ut less
than fifty cents per bushel. AS soon u.
the corn is up SO it can be seen in rows,
small horse plough is run through tn,
field turning the earth from the corn OF
each side Of every row in this condition
the corn should stand ten days, when the
field should be ploughed the other way
turning from the corn as before, thus
leaving each hill of corn standing on
small square hill where it receives tn,
heat Of the sun at season when mos
needed. Nothing more is done to the
field until near the first of July, when
if the weather be hot, the corn will hav
got heat enough as soon rs this is evi
dent cultivator should be run through
the rows both ways, and the ground mad
level thus all of the soil will be strre,
except what is III the hill. All Of tn
hand work necessary is to pull the weed
out of the hills. BY this method corr
can not only be grown with very littl
labor but II larger crop can be grown thai
by the ordinary methods of cultivation.
Careful experiments indicate that twcn
, ty-five hills to the rod and four to tiy
, stalks in n hill is about right.
, Noirs
Don't begin to worl, the soil until ther
is some warmth in it,
Don't uncover the strawberries to
|, early. Let them ha protected until W
have bright, sunny day
Don't get afraid of seeds unless ther
is pretty good ground for it, Good see
will often not sprout because it does nc
l receive moisture enough.
= If our farmers could see and realiz
the marked advantage which produce i
: nice, new, neat, uniform packages po!
: sess in the city markets, there would be
d revolution in packing butter, poultry an
T fruit. Consumers are inclined to iudg
g the quality of farm produce by the chal
. acter of the package.
', The weeds found on our farms con,
:, largely from the grass seeds. with whic
Z weed seeds ARE mixed The mcroscor
!; not only reveals to the eye the worthle
!, seeds OF the grasses, but by careful III
~ =. it detects the weed seeds. Bad seeds a
!, n source of great injury to the farmer
II and the subject should not he neglecte
,e DR., Sturtevant, director of the Ne
IN York agricultural experiment at Genev
,e says: "That broadcast feftilizing lisa be
70 ter way for corn than hill fertilizing seen
is i'll accordance with my own observation
j. | have known many farmers to pass fro
ia hill manuring to broadcast manuring f
id corn, but have never known farmer
l. change his practice from broadcast ma
H. uring to hill manuring. after once hayil
p given n fair trial,
r The following recipe for corning be
OF is said by reliable authority to be goo,
at For 100 pounds of beef take eight poun
le Of salt, two quarts Of molasses, Oh
ID fourth pound OF soda, the same OF sa
no petre. Heat until it needs skimming
of nearly boils, skim, put upon meat h
h and let it remain. In the spring or SUI
in mer scald, or make new brine, say
No. June. This pickle makes beef tend
Ill and just right for drying, For hams a
tn shoulders put ON cold. Let animal h,
er be out OF meat.
OF The Chicago Inter- Ocean says; "Nobo
H. ever heard of au absconding editor. The !
Va son may he obvious, but the fact is nevert
less true This is not true, Within