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the farmer to be satisfied with three cultivations. Some years 

 three cultivations are sufficient, but more often four or five 

 will pay when corn is worth from fifty to sixty cents per> 

 bushel. The practical farmer realizes too well that he can 

 hardly expect to have a loose mulch between his corn rows 

 in August and September unless he works these rows after 

 they are shaded. The great question at this busy season of 

 the year has been to find the time and a method that would 

 not injure the roots or break down the corn. 



Our first built-up cultivator has been in use four years. 

 It was raised sixteen inches at a cost of three dollars. The 

 work was done by the local blacksmith. We believe this was 

 the first cultivator made to plow tall corn that straddled the 

 row. Our new cultivators are more satisfactory since they 

 were built up at the factory. There was no additional charge 

 made for this and they can be used as low cultivators. A 

 disc cultivator built up to plow tall corn might be an im- 

 provement over the gophers for some sections. 



ADDITIONAL BEADING ON CORN CULTURE 



The Farmers Review. March 15, 1913. "Some Corn Expe- 

 rience." A. W. Sarty. 



Twentieth Century Farmer. February 22, 1913. "Han- 

 dling Soil for Production." 



The Breeders' Gazette. May 7, 1913. "Seed Bed a Factor 

 in Corn Fields." J. C. Hackleman. 



Prairie Farmer. April 1, 1913. "Getting Ready for the 

 Corn Crop." W. T. and Ralph M. Ainsworth. 



Prairie Farmer. May 15, 1913. "Methods of Corn Culti- 

 vation for Bumper Yields." Ralph M. Ainsworth. 



"Corn Cultivation." Farmers' Bulletin 414. C. P. Hartley. 



"How to Grow an Acre of Corn." Farmers' Bulletin 537. 

 C. P. Hartley. 



