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the ground is in. I run the disc directly ahead of the planter. With 

 an average season this method gives me a good seed bed. 



I plant three feet eight inches by three feet six inches, and drop 

 three grains to the hill. The corn is planted deep enough to place it 

 in moist ground. I harrow as soon as the corn is planted and again 

 after it is about through the ground. I seldom harrow corn after it is 

 all up, since a number of hills are broken off and otherwise injured. 

 I use a surface cultivator altogether and use the drags or floats the 

 first time over. I cultivate from four to five times, depending on the 

 condition of the soil. I consider the surface cultivator the best. It 

 holds the moisture better and if it is properly set it will move every 

 inch of the surface soil. I plow my corn until it is so tall that I 

 cannot get through the field without injuring it. 



Yours for success, C. C. PAUL. 



Mr. Paul is a grower of pure bred Chester White Hogs. 



Pimento, Indiana, April llth, 1913. 

 Mr. W. T. Ainsworth, Mason City, Illinois. 



Dear Sir: Our land is a heavy, cold clay and very level. We 

 always plow the stalks under in the spring, since it makes the ground 

 looser, adds fertility and makes the crop more easily tended. The 

 ground is broken six to seven inches deep. Our method of working the 

 ground depends entirely on the season. On dry, cloddy ground we use 

 a wood drag, on nice loose soil, a harrow, and on sod, a disc harrow. 



We get our ground level and smooth before planting, and plant 

 from two to two and one-half inches deep. If the weather is dry, we 

 harrow before the corn comes up. If it is wet we leave the field alone 

 until we can plow the corn, which is done as soon as it is possible to 

 plow and not cover the hills. We cultivate from two to three inches 

 deep straight through the season. We use disc cultivators altogether, 

 and consider them the best in our soil. We cultivate three to four 

 times, and stay with it until the corn is too tall to plow with cultivators. 



E, F. D. No. 1. GEOBGE M. CUTINGEE. 



Girard, Pa., April 28th, 1913. 

 W. T. Ainsworth & Sons, Mason City, Illinois. 



Gentlemen: In. answer to yours of recent date, as to culture of corn 

 will say that for corn I prefer a one-year-old clover sod which has been 

 manured the previous winter and plowed as early as possible after oats 



