CHAPTER VI 



A REVOLUTION IN CORN- GROWING 



Before proceeding to discuss Continuous Cropping 

 rotations further it is necessary to study in detail the 

 actual cultural and other operations in connection 

 with the growing of the individual crops. 



At the outset, it may be remarked that, whilst it 

 is possible, in a small volume, to give much 

 information in connection with the growing of 

 Continuous Crops, there remain certain features 

 involved which the writer feels entirely incapable of 

 dealing with, either by the medium of spoken or 

 written language. 



This is true, as all practical farmers are aware, of 

 all crops. Often the writer has been called in to 

 inspect a crop which for some reason or other 

 unknown to the farmer was not making headway. 

 Immediately the writer has been able to diagnpse 

 the cause of the stagnant growth. In other words, 

 one acquires a subtle, innate knowledge in connection 

 with the growing of any crop which it is not possible 

 to put into words, or, perhaps it would be more exact 

 to say, to put into words few enough to be contained 

 in an ordinary book. 



Of necessity, therefore, the reader must be content 

 with a few general principles, and must acquire his 

 knowledge in exactly the same way as the writer 

 acquired his — by actually growing the crops over a 

 succession of years, and by facing the many problems 



