The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-01-25

The mulching was done with rather
strawy manure. the object being &c
check evaporation of the water from
This was not done because it w; S
thought it would be practical fan IN
method, but to demonstrate the reason S
for cultivating corn. If corn is cu..i-
yated for the purpose of stirring the
soil, we would get poor crop. If,
however, we cultivate to kill weeds
and kill weeds to check the loss of wx-
ter. the mulched plats should yield at
least as well as any others. This sta-
son, which was very dry one, the Lest
yield was obtained from the mulcht d
plats. They received no cultivat tior,
other than the narrowing above meE-
toned.
The Gould harrow is home made af-
fair. 1t is made Of light 2x4 in the shal e
of an A harrow. each side of which is Z
feet inches long. Eighty GO penny
wire nails were driven in two rows
around this frame and the nails after
wards bent slanting SO that the harrow
is drawn from one side instead of from
one corner. One horse pulls this and
goes over two rows at once. This im-
plement being light and having lorg
teeth can be used with but little injury
10 the corn. after the ordinary could
not be used. 1t is intended to prevent
the weeds from starting rather than
to kill them after they have started.
The five shovel garden cultivator Ct
hn "
stick little shorter than the width Of
the row alta ched to the hind shovel ly
means of longer bolts than those which
usually hold the shovels in place. The
wheel in front is set to make the front
shovel run shallow and the stick in he
rear accomplishes this purpose and.
also, pushes some of the loose diIt
around the ends of the stick and abol
the corn plants. This was drawn 10y
one horse and drawn but once in a row.
Thus with one horse the ccrn was cul-
tivated as rapidly as is done by two
horses and it will be seen from tie
table that excellent results were oi.
tanned This materially reduces tie
cost of corn culture.
The Tower cultivator is one of class
of machines which has two gangs If
knives mounted much like that OF II g
ordinary four shovel cultivator. TIL
class of machines scrapes the ground
to depth of an inch or two. They
keep good surface mulch of stir, d
soil. and to be especially commended be.
cause there is no danger of the operator
going too deeply because he thinks
he knows more about it tEan
the man who employs him to do the
work. This class of machines do net
especially reduce the cost of culture
but it will be seen from the table that
the yield is materially increased over
that of deep culture.
The spring tooth cultivator. havfrg
five teeth on side. was used 10th rs a
deep cu.tivator and a shallow cult.
rntor. 1t will be seen that wherever
this w as used to the depth of four
inches there was decided decrease N
the yield over any form of shallow cu:-
ture. As shallow cultivator this I'M
plement did not give as good results as
other forms of shallow culture, prob
ably due the d ifficulty of keeping the
shovels from going any deeper than
the depth desired.
The experiment here given and
many others which havs been made In
dicate that corn should be cultivated as
often as is necessary to kill the weeds
and need not be any oftncr and should
not be any deeper than is necessary to
kill weeds. The best depth will usual
" be from one to two inches