Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-17

hogs are pastured in the stubble fields
on the catch crops of clover.
Mr.. Funk is one of the men who
sometimes practice July and August
cultivation of corn when necessary to
save the moisture in the ground. Last
summer he used a one-horse cultivator
In one field and a planter wheel drag
ged fatwise in another field in August.
Rape sown at the last cultivation in
12O acres Of corn provided him an i'm
mense amount of sheep feed.
New England Saving VS.. Illinois Waste.
A Bloomington man who took trip
through Vermont, New Hampshire and
Maine a few weeks ago, says that
New England farmer would make
fortune out of what an Illinois farmer
wastes, and he was particularly at
tracted by the neatness of New Eng
land farms. White paint, looking as
fresh as though just applied, is in evil
dence everywhere, covering any piece
of wood or metal exposed to the
weather. On my trip did not see
loose fence board, a gate hanging by
one hinge, nor any machinery housed
III nature 5 Dig SuSQ.
But returning through Illinois over
the Alton railroad from Chicago to
Bloomington this man observed the
farms closely and was struck with the
contrast to New England methods. He
saw a great deal of farm machinery
under worthless old apple trees and in
dilapidated fence corners, disreputable
1nnlrinr y,f,Y nj
shacks of hay and straw. In the north
east all forage is housed; none was
seen out in the weather. ut seems to
me that the lesson which the Illinois
farmer needs to learn most of all is
that of preventing waste. The Illinois
farmer, with his rich soil, certainly
can learn much of profit from the New
Highlander with his stony land and
short season"
Yield Shows Stand of Corn.
AS corn husking proceeds and yields
ere known, it is a good time to figure
back to the stand of plants and the
doing of each hill The university ex-
hibit at the state fair contained a new
chart of the results of such figuring.
This chart was headed, What Is Your
Stand of Corn? The Yield Shows"
With hills 31a feet apart each way
there are 1856 hills per acre. With
one stalk per hill and an S-ounce ear
on each stalk the yield would be 2324
bushels Fer acre worth SLABS A 70
ounce ear per hill would make 351a
bushels per acre-equal to the average
yield for the state of Illinois. a pound
ear per hill would yield Az bushels
per acre worth $3.50
But if each hill had two ears of only
II ounces each the yield would be So
bushels per acre, while three 12-Ounce
ears per hill would yield 1864 bushels
per acre. Many other items We're
shown in the table. as that pound ear
and a 6-ounce nubbin per hill would
make 65H bushels per acre worth
S39.15.
Our corn lacks much of being per-
feet stand or else the production per
hill is low. Some careful work this
winter selecting seed corn, testing the
seed, grading the kernels. and the
careful adjustment of the planter next
spring to drop just the desired number
of kernels per hill, will add greatly 20
the stand and yield of the next crop.
1t is the missing hills, hills of one
stalk, barren stalks and nubbins that
cut down the yield, and most of these
factors are largely under the farmers
control.-Reported by Arthur J. Bill
for tho Illinois Farmers, Institute