Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-05

Prepared Exclusively for the Central Press Assoc
iatlon, Of Columbus, o., by the Ohio Agriculturs
Experiment Station.
The farm occupied by the Ohio Ex.
pertinent Station Is chiefly bottom
land, lying in the valley Of the Olen.
tangy, 9ne of the largest branches oi
the Scioto. On this farm the large
growing varieties of dent corn have
given the largest yield as a rule, though
occasionally the medium variety yield
almost or quiet as we'll as the larger
ones.
Generally the yellow dents have
yielded a little more grain than the
white dents. Among the most salts
factory Of the varieties treated at the
station are the Leaning and Clarage
yellow dents, and variety generally
known as Hess White. The flint va.
rieties have in no case proved worthy
ofcultivation on this farm.
METHOD OF PLANTING.
The results from planting at differ
ent depths are somewhat contradictory
in different seasons, but a safe rule
seems to be to plant about two inches
deep. The largest yields have been OBJ
tanned from planting in rows nearly
four feet apart, with the stalks three to
six inches apart In rows, but such close
planting produces a large proportion of
understandable corn, so that, taking
quality as we'll as quantity into consid-
Grafton, the best results have followed
planting so that the stalks will average
about twelve inches apart In the rows.
1t has not seemed to make any mater
ial difference whether the stalks stood
singly, or every twelve inches, three
every thirty-six inches, or four every
forty-eight inches. In other words, as
between planting In hills or drills, no
great difference has been manifested in
favor of either method.
WHEN TO PLANT.
The answer to this question depends
upon the peculiarities Of the season. In
collecting the experiments of several
years, it appears that the best result
followed April planting one year, June
planting another, with intermediate
dates for the remaining seasons. On an
average, corn planted about the middle
Of May or later has yielded the best re-
suits.
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS ON CORN.
In experiments made at the Ohio Ex-
pertinent station, no profitable increase
of crop has followed the use of COM
mercial fertilizers on corn, the soil be-
ing sufficiently fertilized to produce 60
to 80 bushels of shelled corn per acre
and upward, with good husbandry
alone. At the Experiment station of
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at Lexington, In the midst of the fa-
nous Blue Grass region of that state,
and on soil which has been formed
by the decomposition of limestone
rocks, a different result has been reach
ed, as shown by bulletin twenty-six of
that Station, issued in April, 1890.
From this bulletin it appears that the
natural yield of the soil was from 25 to
A bushels per acre; but when fertili-
zers In proper combinations were ap-
piled the yield rose to 80 bu. per acre.
In these experiments potash increased
the yield in every case, and seems to
have been really the one element need
ed-a result In harmony with one ex-
pertinent in Ohio, made on a spur of
this same limestone formation, but
quite at variance with the results at
tanned in Ohio on other soils.
The Kentucky station, like the Ohio
station, has instituted a number of CO.
operative farm tests of fertilizers on
corn, and these experiments, like those
made in Ohio, indicate that soils rich
enough naturally to produce forty
bushels of shelled corn per acre and up
ward, and even some poorer soils, will
not yield profitable return for the ap-
plication of commercial fertilizers to
the corn crop.