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ordinary conditions on May 10, the farmer 

 usually finds that on July 4, or 54 days from 

 planting, the corn is up 18 to 24 inches, commonly 

 termed "knee-high", or one fourth to one third as 

 high as shown in this field at Orleans. This field 

 was carefully spring tilled from early spring to 

 time of planting. Do you understand the sig- 

 nificance of this fact? 



Now we do not use Cut No. 12 to establish as a 

 rule or principle that July 1 is the proper corn 

 planting time. But it does show the truth of our 

 previous statement as to the time it takes to make 

 the same growth after the soil has been well and 

 timely tilled and becomes warm, and the seed bed 

 has been put into a more perfect condition by 

 the tillage and the liberation of plant food by 

 certain chemical action is under way, as against 

 earlier planting with less preparatory tillage and 

 colder soil. 



The same field is shown again in Cut No. 13, 

 but the photograph was taken 30 days later, or 

 84 days from planting, showing the ears which 

 matured. The corn in this case was not an early 

 variety, but the common yellow dent. 



Four other fields were planted the same year, 

 on June twenty-ninth and thirtieth, at points 

 some 50 miles apart, not expecting, however, to 

 raise finished corn but to obtain a better and more 

 tender ensilage; but strange as it may seem every 

 field not only matured corn, but at no time did 

 the foliage show the ill effect of the prolonged hot, 

 dry weather. 



It must be remembered that the season of 1914 



