Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-05-14
OUR FARMERS.
CORN PLANTING TIME.

Although the weather is still cold
in the natural order of the seasons
the time for corn planting is not very
far distant, says LiUe Stock Indicator.
just when corn planting time is, is a
matter of varying opinion, and two
or three seasons having unusual
weather conditions in common may
change the opinion. We have known
seasons where the early planted corn
had to be very largely replanted. 1t
is very hard for a farmer to possess
his soul with patience and wait when
he hears the click of his neighbours
corn planter on an adjoining field,
even though his Judgment tells him
he ought to wait. Energetic farmers
don't like to be behind, and the dis
position that makes them feel this
way is praiseworthy one. Still, the
time when corn should be planted is
when the ground is ready, and its
readiness depends upon two factors,
the one being when it has been prop
erly prepared by the farmer, and the
other when nature has warmed it up.
When spring seems somewhat back
ward corn is often planted in cold
ground, much of it fails to terminate
and another large portion of it ger
inmates only in weak half-hearted
way, making a field that brings to
mind the saying of the lad in the old
school reader of our boyhood: s'Dad
planted the little yellow kind" Corn
planted ten days Or two weeks later
often beats it badly. We believe in
early planting when it is possible and
yet one does not want corn "mudded
in" The rule for planting must con-
tinue to be when the ground isIready.
The most that the farmer can do is to
see to it's early and thorough prepare
tion,so far as it depends upon nature,
he must now and always trust in
Providence and do the best he can.
But still while early planting is de-
sirable, it is never we'll to allow ones
self to be pushed into the work of
corn planting before he is ready and
against his Judgment, by the sound
of neighbours corn planter.
Pillow the soil as deep as its charac-
ter will permit. A shallow, impover-
ished soil cannot be plowed as deep
as a deep, fertile one. A good seed
bed is necessary and the deeper the
blowing, when the soil permits, the
better the preparation for planting.
If soil is shallow, gradually deep
en- it by subsequent plowings. By
going an inch deeper, for instance,
each blowing, the soil can be deepen
ed and improved and enriched. If
the deepening process is attempted
at one blowing in a soil too shallow,
it will be ruined for some time and
the crop destroyed for the first season
at least. After the depth of blowing
has once been established, vary it
slightly from time to time, otherwise
layer at the bottom of the furrow
will be formed of .compacted and
hardened soil, due to steps of man
and horse.
Destroy the weeds. This necessi-
tates cultivation, which should be
done as often as necessary to keep
out the weeds. The harrow, if used a
few days after planting and again
after the corn is up, will do much to
put the corn ahead of the weeds.
Follow this with the weeder and cul-
tivate often enough to destroy weeds.
Where a soil is badly infested with
weeds, plant corn in hills and rows SO
as to be able to cultivate both ways.
Cultivate the soil. This is done not
only to kill weeds but also because
tillage is manure. The stirring of the
soil is one of the means of changing
unavailable plant food into the avail
able form.
Cultivation also makes a mulch of
the fine dry soil that contributes in a
degree to consume the moisture in
thes old.
j. Q. Hood, Justice of the Peace, Crosby, MISS,
makes the following statement: 81 certify that
One Minute Cough Cure will do all that is claimed
for it. My wife could not get her breath and the
first dose of it relieved her. 1t has also benefited
my whole family 1t acts Immediately and cures
coughs, colds, Group, grippe, bronchitis, asthama
and all throat and lung troubles
III Pierce, Barton; Fl Webster, Barton Land
ing; G W Russell, Irasburg; r French, Glover
Whether level or hill culture is the |
best for potatoes depends on local
conditions, and general rules cannot |
be formulated. More than that, sea-