Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-01-25

10 plant the corn deeper in these
spots than ON the other land.
''On the fri Of June We had
wet spell which lasted several days.
The corn turned yellow. and then
il turned hot. and l put one horse
on one section II the harrow, and /
went down one Tow and hack UP
the other. 1t looked ike | was Just
tearing that corn out A. fast a.
could with that horse, but | wanted
Ia hold the moisture a. well a. to
break up that crust ON the dobe
spots.
All the corn came up and after
it was all up and looking fine,
there vas $50 Of a perfect stand,
but still l didn't know Just how |
was going To irrigate that com.
ION the sth Of June | started
my one-horse cultivator-a common
5-tooth cultivator-going-
on the 18th Of June crossed
the field with a 2-horse hitch on the
same harrow that | had been using
one section Of, having added the
other section 70 il. | had one Of
the boys follow on behind and rake
the soil Of what corn had been COW
cred up too deep.
4 kept the cultivator going over
it every five OF seven day., for it
was growing an inch day in Ida
no, and the weeds l killed when
doing that cultivating.
"On the 1t Of July it had not
Yet been irrigated. | ran water in
some Of the burrows and a soon a.
it got through | moved the water
over to the other lows. Some 81
these rows that had received a little
more water than the others, when
it got down L. the far end, by plant
ing this corn in checks could han
de it both way, for there were a
few rows not wet enough.
Ten days later that , acre plat
II corn was the talk Of the neigh
bOrhood. Where the plat had for
merly been raising weeds, here was
corn like that raised in Iowa.
When it had been planted g.
days the average height Of the entire
five acre tract was 90 inches.
The last Of July and August
gave this corn all the water it would
take, and kept ON cultivating. On
the 18th Of August shut the watel
of because the corn was ready Il
mature.
In September the leaves had be
gun to turn that yellow color, indi
eating maturity, and also the ear
had begun to turn yellow and SOM
ears were very well matured even t.
their very tips. The average heigh
Of this corn was 9 and ten feet, an,
l some few stalks were II feet.
was very even all over the tract
t even the dobe spots producing ex
cellent corn.
As a result, 3 acres Of this corr
filled a silo ten feet in diameter am
thirty feet high, according to tn
silo estimate, holding about 10 ton
of ensilage, or in other words ther
was enough ensilage to feed te
dairy cows almost eight months
The remainder Of the corn shucke
which averaged me 60 bushels t
the acre.
- Il kept track of the cost of grow
= ing that corn and found it ran 81 )
= per acre, counting soc an acre fc
water. 1t cost 75c a ton to cut tn
y corn up and put it into the silo, NJ
; counting our own labor. Countin
our own labor at the same wag,
7 we paid other help it cost s1.25 pt
7 ton to put this corn into the sil
~ after it was grown.
Il had some worms in that corr
r If the land had been plowed in II
r fall there would have been pract
+ cally no worms, because the larv
il eggs would have been turned u
and exposed to the weather, and
II large part of them killed"
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