The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-10-21
CORN ON DRY FARMS
Land for This Crop Should Be
Flowed Very Deeply.
Fall Flowing viii Accumulate More
Moisture Than Disking and Har-
rowing-Llstins Is Consid-
cred Dangerous.

Many of our states have awakened
to the fact that their yields of corn
average far below what they consider
fair crops, and to encourage deeper
blowing and better work generally
have been offering prizes for heavier
production.
In Georgia, the prize for the best
acre OF corn was won by boy of
eleven, Joseph Stone of Chester, on
eight-year-old land. He plowed ten
inches deep. then cross-plowed IA
inches deep, then SUBSIDIZED where the
rows were to be planted, 20 inches
deep; used about ten dollars worth
fertilizer to the acre; cultivated so as
to leave three cultivator burrows,
then again leaving only two burrows,
after that with other implements, and
raised 1925 bushels per acre.
| | quote the above to show the
/ necessity of deep blowing for corn.
| All the other records for corn this
last year yere made by deep blowing
methods. writes e. R. Parson in the
Dry Farming Bulletin. The land for
his crop should be plowed as deep
~ as possible, but not packed, for the
reason that packing favors top growth,
and If we have a wet sr-ing, followed
by dry weather, the corn is liable to
overgrow itself and produce crop
of baggy ears-all husk and no corn.
On the other hand, loose ground ia
vors root growth. The top does not
grow too rank, and as soon as the
dry weather comes, the corn, having
plenty of root and not weakened by a
top of heavy foliage, goes to making
ears, and we get much better crop
than if the plant is allowed to over
grow at the start.
Fall blowing will accumulate, as q
rule, mere moisture than disking and
narrowing, but to secure good results
the land must be plowed again in the
spring, before planting
Where the precipitation does not
fall below IA inches, corn can be
raised every year by blowing ten
inches or more and planting one
grain in a hill from "a to SO inches
apart, according to the corn; but the
land should be kept rough cultivated
or plowed during the winter months
or as soon as the cattle are taken off
hard land without any blowing at all
and consider it hard luck when theil
crops fail in dry years. In many o
these regions, 60-bushel crops have
been raised by good blowing LISTING
Is dangerous for another reason; W,
sometimes get an extra heavy storm
which will fill the lister burrows an(
completely bury the corn.
The wheels of the corn planter will
usually pack the land sufficiently TO
seed termination in the row. The cul
tivation should be deep and rough
and always across the slope whel
there is any. We are fully awar,
grafton. but in the "cloud-burst
states 1t also favors run off, and ex
: perience shows that we gain NOR
: than we lose by saving the run-of
at the expense of some evaporation
The ground should be cultivated a
der to put 1t In a receptive condition
for the heavy summer rains whic
4 often make the crop. 1t is mistak
to continually cultivate corn during
+ drought; 1t creates too fine a mulch
; makes mud, and stops penetration
9 when finally the rain comes. All tina
y is necessary is to break the crust an
+ maintain good three-inch mulch.
: In times of severe drought, a crus
i may form under the mulch; but If tn
mulch is intact, there is no NOR
evaporation than before, and tn
deep blowing and the moisture in tn
}. subsoil will bring the crop through.