The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-12-15
fore the Mississippi democratic pri
mary to succeed Percy.


The following essay on How Grow
Good Corn" written by w Allen Tan.
nehil. son of Frank Tannehill, took
first prize at the recent corn show:
First OF ALL have good seed Take a
stalk cutter about the last of March
and cut the old stalks. The stalk cut.
ter will cut them up I'm little pieces
so they will not bother in listing and
blowing. Along about the first of May
or a little later, take the lister and
| list the corn i'm, dropping a grain about
every sixteen inches on common land
| a little bit closer if you have extra good
land. Just as il begins to come up
take a float or harrow and drag over
| it so as to smooth the dirt down
around the corn, and mash the Clods
| up. In about a week take the two row
lister cultivator and set all the disks
and shovcls to throw the dirt out
away from the corn. DO this about
every week for three weeks, and then
set all the disks and shovels to throw
the dirt i'm around the corn. plOw with
these set this way just once. Then
take the harrow again and set the
| teeth straight up and down, so as to
level down the soil around the corn
After you have narrowed this way
once, it will be level as any land
Then take a four shovel cultivator
and cultivate it twice with this, the
! last time very shallow by this time
the corn will be too big to pillow any
more.
About the first of September 90
through the corn and pull all the
cookie burrs and sun flowers out of
the corn. And then you will have your
corn raised. ! will guarantee you a
good crop, barring unfavorable
weather conditions.
w. Allen Tannehill.
- years. Route No 4, Norfolk, Neb.
The following essay on Corn Grow
ing" by Ira W. Hepperly, took second
prize:
Corn is a native of America 1t is
grown in nearly all the states, in
South America and in many foreign
countries, although the United States
produces three fourths af all the corn
raised, which is about $4,000 ,00O
bushels annually. The Importance of
the seed corn which one plants can
hardly be estimated, because it takes
just so much time to cultivate a half
stand of corn as good stand, and be
sides the stunted stalks which bear
little. A good stand can generally be
had by selecting the seed one wishes
to plant the following year from the
field early in the autumn and have it
stored in a dry airy place.
Corn grows best on fairly heavy
soil where the larger part OF a rain
fall of from twenty-seven to thirty
five inches falls during the summer
months, and where there is plenty OF
sunshine and warmth.
There are different ideas as to the
depth and time of blowing for corn
Fall blowing is good, because it loos
ems the soil so as to retain the mois
ture which falls during the winter and
spring and kills what cut worms and
corn root worms which may be de
structive if not killed.
Listing is practiced on dry ant
light soil for the purpose of gettins
the roots well down into the soil, ant
it also prevents blowing down of the
stalks.
Corn is generally planted by ;
check-rower planter which plants 81
that it can be cultivated both length
wise and cross-wise. Drilling is no
generally practiced on plowed land
because it is inconvenient to clear
out the weeds.
The time of planting varies will
the year and location, but in the cen
trail states between the first and tif
teenth of May is good time.
The depth of planting must be gov
erned by the quality of the soil. If i
is clay or other moist ground one o.
two inches are sufficient, but il
sandy, loose and dry soils three inche:
: is more nearly correct.
AS soon as it terminates cultivation
should begin, the harrow and weede'
are good implements to kill small
weeds and to break the crust.
Early cultivation is important, be
cause if the plants are subject to un
favorable conditions the yield vii
not be as good as possible.
: The depth of cultivation is con
= trolled entirely by soil conditions
There are few times when deep cult
walton is needed. If extensive rains
have packed the soil and kept it waite
soaked. deep cultivation will help t
dry and aerate the soil. Shallow cul
; tivatiOn does not break the roots al
does deep, but kills weeds and forms
a soil mulch.
The frequency OF cultivation is regu
lated by the growth of weeds and sol
conditions. 1t should be often enough
, to kill all weeds which may start ant
keep a good soil mulch of about thre
inches to prevent evaporation afte
, the corn is too tall for double cult
walton a single one should be use'
which will increase the yield consider
ably by keeping a good soil mulch.
This with good seed selection ant
attention as TO cultivation and sol
i, , conditions we will always say Corr
is King in Nebraska.
. Ira w. Capperly.