140 PIKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



twenty-fiflh of September), when one bushel of wheat to the 

 acre is drilled in. 



THE FULTZ "WHEAT HAS PROVED TO BE VERY PRODUCTIVE, 



hardy, and flj'-proof. The cost of putting in sixty aeres of 

 wheat has averaged about as follows : 



IGt} days Plowing-, 3 horse plow at $3 00 - 840 50 



7 " Harrowing, 3 horses 



8 " Rolling, 2 horses 

 5 " Drilling, 2 horses 

 GO bushels Seed Wheat 



Total §5lG7 GO 



Cost per acre $2 70 



Twenty-two acres of this were plowed with a three-horse 

 plow. On the same land with same culture, one year's crop 

 (1878) yielded about 1,750 bushels. 



(;ORN GROUND IS PLOWED 

 as early in the Spring as the condition of the soil will admit, 

 ear& being taken to avoid plowing while the ground is wet. 

 Hbrace Greeley's advice is taken when we are plowing for corn, 

 and the plow is put down nine or ten inches deep; the ground 

 is put in good tilth by harrowing. I have not seen as good 

 results as have some farmers, from harrowing small corn. As 

 soon as the corn is up, the wheel double-walking cultivators 

 are used, by changing' the plows or cultivators so that the hind 

 shovel will be next to the row of corn ; the fenders have to be 

 adjusted to the hind sliovcl by boring an extra hole in the 

 beam of the plow. The shovels are turned slightly from the 

 corn, and as the result of this the forward shovel breaks the 

 ground away from the corn, making a furrow for the hind 

 shovel to turn its furrow into, and leaving the J'oung corn 

 standing on a ridge. By this method it is hard to cover it up, 

 the clod naturally rolling off the ridge into the furrow, so that 

 the corn can be very closely cultivated at the time that such 

 close cultivation is needed the most; and at no other stage of 

 its growth can it be done so well. After the corn is large 

 enough to stand the dirt, the cultivators are changed back again, 



