The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
In Orchard and Field
gHappenings Of Moment to the Man Behind the Pow
GROWING CORN AND PEAS


The State College of Washington
has just published two posters on
the growing of corn and field peas.
The posters are written by Professor
Severance and embody the essential
principles to be followed in growing
these crops as follows:
GROW CORN
Washington is well adapted to
corn. High lands, low lands, non
irrigated lands, irrigated lands will
grow corn if proper seed, proper
soils. proper cultivation and properly
selected locations are used. Avoid
frosty spots.
1. Secure acclimated seed.
2. Select warm, rich, we'll drained
soil.
8. Where rainfall exceeds eighteen
inches, pillow deep in fall and harrow
in early spring.
4. When rainfall is less than
eighteen inches, summerfallow rs
for wheat.
5. Cultivate shallow frequently in
! spring to conserve moisture, kill
weeds, prepare good seed bed, de-
velop available plant food.
Note-Moisture cannot be con-
served after it has escaped. A good
seed bed cannot be prepared from
dry, cloddy ground.
1. Plant early, but so as to es-
cape late spring frosts. The date
will vary from early April to the
middle of May.
2. Plant in hills 81 to 4 feet apart
each way, 8 to 5 kernels per hill, or
same amount of seed in drills. Cul-
tivate with harrow until corn is 8
or 4 inches high. Always catch
weeds when small.
4. Keep soil clean and surface
loose throughout summer. Level
shallow cultivation is best.
Do not cut corn until it is fully
| glazed (unless frosted) whether for
silage or for grain.
Select next years seed from stand
ing corn.
The agricultural college wishes to
cooperate with the farmers in test
ing this crop. It has matured sue
cessfully on the college farm for the
past ten years.
GROW FIELD PEAS
Field peas are one of the best crops
to grow where adapted. The crop
makes rich hay or soiling food !;
makes rich grain, especially for hog
feed, and enriches the soil.
Peas do best in q cool climate
with considerable moisture. AT
home all over western Washington !;
do well in eastern Washington
where rainfall exceeds eighteen to
twenty inches, except in wet draws
or on clay points.
j. Pillow deep in the fall, if posi-
BILE, leaving the ground rough; or, if
it is impossible to fall pillow, pillow as
soon as the soil if fit to work in the
spring, medium depth, narrowing
at once.
2. Work up deep mellow seed-bed
as early as the ground is fit to work.
3. Seed as early as seed bed can
be prepared, using grain drill to
set seed deep-four or five inches.
4. Seed two bushels of peas per
acre, if seeded alone. Seed four to
six pecks of peas and one busbel of
oats if mixture is desired for feed {.
Pea vines are less likely to lodge
and be damaged for feed when
seeded with oats. Seed the oats
about ore week after seeding the
peas. setting the drill to seed the
usual depth for oats. When seeded
on same date, oats are apt to hold
down the peas.
5. Make very rich hay if cut
when oats are going into the
dough" stage and the first peas
are full grown. Cure like clover
hay.
6. May be fed off profitably by
hogs, turning in when first peas are
full grown, combining the hogs to a
small patch at a time, to avoid
waste.