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kernel every ten inches and would plant the corn, two and one-half 

 inches deep. The rows were about three feet four inches apart. 



"When the corn was two or three inches high I harrowed it, 

 and June 3rd I plowed it deep with a six-shovel cultivator. June 

 10th I gave it the second plowing, this time allowing the shovels 

 to go only two and one-half to three inches deep. I plowed this 

 corn again June 17th, and gave it the final plowing July 2nd. For 

 this final plowing I used a garden, plow with the three back shovels 

 removed and a long four-inch blade bolted on in their place. The 

 front shovels worked up the ground and the loose dirt would shoot 

 over the top of this blade and leave a perfect dust mulch. The 

 corn came in tassel about July 25th, was ripe by September 25th, 

 and from the measured acre we harvested, November 5th, 105 

 bushels and 30 pounds of corn. 



"It cost me $20.95 to grow this acre, and as the total value 

 of the crop was approximately $50, I had a profit of nearly $30 

 from one acre alone." 



MAINTAINING SOIL FERTILITY UNDER SYSTEMS OF 



TENANCY. 



(M. F. Miller, Professor of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Missouri.) 



The maintaining of soil fertility under the system of tenancy, 



common to Missouri, is no simple mat- 

 ter. In fact, it is no simple matter to 

 maintain, the soil fertility under any 

 system where one is making a profit at 

 the same time and it becomes doubly 

 difficult where one must work through 

 a tenant. We often hear men talk about 

 keeping up land by a crop rotation, or 

 by growing an occasional crop of clover, 

 or by feeding on the land, but, as a mat- 

 ter of fact, unless all of these things 

 are practiced, fertility is actually rare- 

 ly maintained. Rotation helps, manur- 

 ing helps, clover growing helps, but 

 any one of these alone is rarely suffi- 

 cient to keep a soil permanently fertile, 



Prof. Miller. 



