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thin appearance of the corn field. It is well to 

 add that this same farmer, Mr. W. W. Cockran, 

 with only 7J inches of rain during the growing 

 season in 1914, raised 540 bushels of good corn on 

 30 acres, also 700 bushels of wheat from 20 acres 

 and 120 bushels of potatoes per acre. 



In connection with these three pictures and the 

 brief facts given, don't fail to recognize that 

 tillage of the right kind at the proper time and 

 planting when the soil conditions had been made 

 more favorable by this tillage, were ruling factors 

 in the wide difference as to these results. The 

 same weather conditions prevailed over both fields, 

 as there was a distance of only 3 feet and 6 inches 

 between them. 



OTHER RESULTS OBTAINED 



A field of corn at Holdrege, Nebraska, is shown 

 in the illustration, Cut No. 17. This was in the 

 dry year of 1914. The ground was disked early 

 and kept clean of weeds with a loose surface layer 

 maintained, corn listed June thirtieth, photo- 

 graphed August 7, or 38 days after planting. The 

 average height of the corn at the time the photo- 

 graph was taken was 46 inches, or about double 

 the height of the average corn on July fourth 

 that had been planted May tenth. In other words, 

 this corn made twice the growth in 38 days 

 that the average early planted corn would make 

 in 54 days. The ideal seed and root bed brought 

 about by careful tillage, the warm soil and in- 

 creased available plant food were the ruling 

 factors in this remarkable growth in so short a 

 period. 



