Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-05-16
CORN CUL TURE.
Preparation of Soil, Planting,
Cultivation, Harvesting and
Care Generally.
DISCUSSED BY
I 7. A. HOVERSTAD
OF the State Experiment Station at
CrOOkston.
Continued from last week.
SUMMER CULTIVATION.
Continued from last week.

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CONTINUED from last week
SUMMER CULTIVATION.
AS soon as the corn is planted and
until it appears above the surface a
common peg tooth harrow can be-
used. From the time the corn is four
or five inches high until it is foot
or even more, weeder with rather
long teeth will be found very SER
viceable instrument. These weeders
will do good work only if the soil is
in right tilth, containing the. right
amount OF moisture, and the weeds
not having too much OF start.
From this time on the two horse cul-
tivator should be used very frequent
ly. Once week is none too much.
Any cuitivator with four to six small
shovels on each side will be found
good. These will stir. the soil to
depth OF three inches which is as
deepa as the corn should be cultivated.
Avoid deep culture for fear the roots
may be destroyed. After the corn is
too large for the two horse cult
vator, a single horse hoe should be
used. This will destroy the weeds
starting later in the summer, and
will prevent any weeds from going
to seed. The corn field should now
be so clean that it will be unneces-
sary to pillow in the fall. If the culti-
walton prior to planting and the
narrowing while the corn is young is
thoroughly done, there will be no
weeds in the slaH space between the
drills in the double row. The shade
caused by the thick planting will
also have the tendency to keep the
weeds back. ~
I HARVESTING THE CORN CROP.
Cut the corn before or Immediately
after frost. We usually start the
cutting not later than Sept. 1. Cut
ting by hand is impracticable here.
Labor is very expensive and very
few la borers are found who are
skilled in corn cutting. The corn
harvester is so perfected now that it
seems to solve the question of corn
cutting. The common standard
harvesters are capable of cutting the
double rows easily. .~- 49,.
CURING AND STORING CORN.
Corn can beput into large shocks
and left in the fields until dry. They
can be left in the fields and hauled
home when needed for use, or if dry,
it can be stacked. Care must be
taken to see that it is thoroughly
dried or it will heat and spoil
Stacking corn and alternating a
layer OF corn with, layer OF straw
has been tried and reports are favor
able to that practice. Corn and
oats have also been threshed to-
gether. This experiment will pro-
baby be more extensively tried, and
will probably be a successful prac-
tice. Probably no method is supe-
rior, if equal, to SLIDING the corn.
Fodder can be cut and put into the
silo Immediately. 1t can be allowed
to stand in the field if the season is
too busy, and put into the silo later
In the Red River valley silos are few,
but they will probably be more
numerous in the future. Ready made
sllos can now be bought, and their
expense is not beyond the reach of
any stockman with a good sized
herd. ,
CORN VS.. SUMNER FALLow.
}, The method often practiced is to
crop the land until it refuses to grow
a good crop, then the land is sfallowed
for one season. Many farmers doubt
the wisdom OF this practice. Many
authorities recommend the growing
OF q corn crop instead of summer fall
low. Prof. Snyder, in Minnesota
Bulletin No. 65, says as follows:
in many cases the loss of nitrogen
has been hastened by the extensive
practice OF summer following, which
temporarily increases the yield OF
succeeding crops, but in the end re-