CROP GROWING PROJECTS 



1. Growing a Field bf Corn for Profit. 



Project Work Plan 



Select a variety. 



Select seed ears in your father's or a 

 neighbor's field 



Store seed 



Select ground 



Manure and plow (fall) . . . 

 Test ears for germination. . 



Select fertilizer 



Fit the ground 



Plant 



Fertilizing 



Cultivate. 



Select and store seed as at the begin- 

 ning of the project 



Harvest 



Husk and weigh up ears. Select 

 exhibit ears while husking 



Sell or store crop 



Compute costs and profit. . . 

 Summarize project. 



Study Involved 



Important varieties and their characters. Home grown vs. for- 

 eign seed. 



Corn improvement. Qualities of best plants from which to select 

 ears. Field trip. 



Principles of seed storage. Devices for storing seed corn. 



Corn soils. Effect of poor drainage on corn. Signs of good and 

 poor drainage. Rotations which include corn. Nearness to other 

 corn fields. 



Use of farm manure. Rate of manuring. Mechanics and adjust- 

 ment of plows. Fall vs. spring plowing. Depth of plowing. 



The sawdust box and rag doll methods. Signs of good and poor 

 germination. Effect of poor ears on yield. (Compute.) 



Computing fertilizers. Corn fertilizers. Rate of fertilizing. 



Tilth and tillage. The fitting program. Tools to be used and 

 their effects. 



Planting machinery. Method, time, depth and rate. Grading seed. 



Methods of applying. When seeding and later. 



Cultivation program. Weeds which infest corn. Depth and fre- 

 quency of cultivation. 



Harvesting machinery. Handling corn fodder. 

 Corn judging. 



Prevailing prices of seed corn. Value of fodder. Shrinkage of corn 



in storage. Grades of corn. 

 Farm accounts. 



Demonstrations with Projects in Corn Gorwing 



2. Grow several promising varieties of corn and compare them as to yield 

 and maturity. 



3. In a corn-growing project try, on several rows each, a different fertilizer. These 

 may vary in amounts or in the relative amounts of nitrogen or phosphate, or potash. 



4. Make trials in like manner to compare the results with and without barnyard 



manure or green manure. 



References on Corn Growing 



Montgomery, Productive Farm Crops (LIPPINCOTT) . 

 Montgomery, The Corn Crops (Macmillan). 

 Duggar, Southern Field Crops (Macmillan). 



Bowman and Crossley, Corn. (Published by authors, Ames, Iowa.) 

 Holden and Waggoner, Seed Corn, (International Harvester Co., Chicago). 

 Bussell, Improving the Corn Crop, Cornell Reading Course Leseon 129. 

 Burlison and White, Selection and Storage of Seed Corn. Illinois Circular, 225. 



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