CULTURE OF MAIZE 



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is coming, but after it is well up. When planted in drill? it is 

 best to harrow crosswise of the drills instead of with drills. 

 When harrowing with the drills a harrow tooth will sometimes 

 get started down a row and 

 drag out the plants for some 

 distance. In place of the 

 smoothing harrow, the 

 weeder or Gould harrow 

 (A) may be used. 



300. Depth of Planting. 



— Maize may be planted 

 from one to four 

 inches deep. The 

 average yield dur- 

 ing six years at the 

 Ohio State Univer- 

 sity has been as fol- 

 lows : One inch 

 deep, 57.9 bushels; 

 two inches deep, 

 51.2 bushels; three 

 inches deep, 46.8 

 bushels.^ Four 

 seasons the re- 

 sults favored 

 one inch deep, 

 while during two 

 seasons, when 



r 11 Tools for stirring soil before or soon after maize is up. A, homemade 



rainiall W^aS ^^^„^^^ consisting of three pieces of 2 x 4, each seven feet four 

 about two-thirds inches long, and eighty sixty-penny wire spikes. Tracesof one horse 

 1 , ^ to be hitched directly to flexible attachments indicated in order to 



n O r m a J , two ^.^^^ harrow vibratory motion ; B, weeder • C, adjustable smoolh- 

 incheS gave the ing harrow. 



best resultSc At the Illinois Station the average yield during 

 1 Ohio Rpt. 1890, p. 87. 



