Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-03-27
HOW TO GROW CORN AND PEAS
Agricultural College Man Tells Just
How to Get Away From One
Crop Idea and Improve Soil.


Agricultural College Man Tells Just
How to Get Away From One
Crop Idea and Improve Soil.
The State College of Washington
has just published two posters on the
growing of corn and field peas. The
posters are written by Professor Geo.
Severance and embody the essential
principles to be followed in growing
these crops as follows:
Washington is we'll 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 To-
cations are used Avoid frosty spots.
1. Secure acclimated seed.
2. Select warm, rich, well drained
soil
8. Where rainfall exceeds IS
inches, pillow deep in fall and harrow
in early spring.
4. When rainfall is less than
Is inches, summerfallow as for wheat
5. Cultivate shallow frequently in
spring to conserve moisture, kill
weeds, prepare good seed bed, develop
available plant food
Note-Moisture can not be con-
served after it has escaped. A good
seed bed can not be prepared from
dry, cloddy ground.
l. Plant early, but so as to es-
cape the late spring frosts. The date
will vary from early April to middle
May.
2. Plant in hills three and a half
to four feet apart each way, three to
five kernels per hill, or same amount
of seed in drills.
3. Cultivate will harrow till corn
is three or four inches high. Always
catch weeds when small
A. Keep soil clean and surface
loose throughout summer. Level
shallow cultivation is best.
= 5. 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 Il
cooperate with the farmers in test
: ing this crop. 1t has matured sue
CSSSAuliy vi lhS SOAlS6S ldA III LUZ IN
last ten years.
T. Field peas are one of the hes
f crops to grow where adapted. Th'
. crop makes rich hay or soiling food
E makes rich grain, especially for hot
q feed, and enriches the SOIL
+ Peas do best in a cool climate will
considerable moisture. At home al
q over western Washington; do we'll il
q eastern Washington, where rainfall
. exceeds 10 to 20 inches, except Ia
q wet draws or on clay points.
: /. Pillow deep in the fall, If possi
BILE, leaving the ground rough; or,
= it is impossible to fall pillow, ploy
. as soon as the soil is fit to work Il
- the spring, medium depth, harrowin
at once.
2. Work up deep, mellow seedbe
v as early as the ground is fit to worl
/ 3. Seed as early as seeded can b
9 prepared, using grain drill set to see
> deep-four or five inches.
4. Seed two bushels Of peas pc
acre, if seeded alone. Seed four t
six pecks of peas and one bushel {
oats if mixture is desired for fee,
i Pea vines are less likely to lodge an
3 be damaged for feed when seede
with oats. Seed the oats about on
\. week after seeding the peas, settin
" the drill to seed the usual depth fC
- oats. When seeded on same dat
= oats are apt to hold down the peas.
:. 5. Make very rich hay if cut whe
~ oats are going into the dough" stag
- and the first peas are full grow
IL Cure like clover hay.
6. May be fed off profitably /
hogs, turning in when first peas al
/ full grown, combining the hogs to
al small patch at a time to avoid vast
al, 7. If cut for seed, the best result
- are usually secured by cutting whe
!, the first pods are beginning to she
If cut earlier, too large q percental
= will usually be quite green.
IL 8. Yields on the state farm ha'
or ranged from two to four tons, our,
re hay per acre; s25 to $50 in pork, c
Oh 20 to 40 bushels per acre, usually
lie threshed.
OF The state experiment station, Pu
at man, Wash. desires to co-opera
OF with a certain number of reliab
il farmers in testing this crop. Wri
ct for particulars and for bulletins {