80 FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



Let it be clearly understood that in advocating a 

 change in the time of year for corn sowing, the 

 writer does not recommend that no corn should be 

 sown at the usual time of year. In recommending 

 the sowing of summer and autumn corn, he does so, 

 not with any idea at present of inducing any 

 decreases in the ordinary corn area, but with a desire 

 to show how the amount of cereals and other crops 

 can be increased by a combination of the existing 

 and by new methods. 



The new method, in language easily understood, 

 offers an extra string, or several extra strings, to the 

 farmers' bow. 



THE TIME FOR CORN SOWING 



The necessary conditions for success for summer 

 and autumn-sown corn,~ so far as the writer's 

 investigations have gone, are: — 



i. A sufficiency of moisture in the early stages 

 of growth. 



2. A sufficiency of available plant food. 



3. Grain of a hardy nature, with a good tillering 



capacity. 



As regards moisture, it will be seen at the outset 

 that the very weather conditions which are con- 

 sidered to be the most unsuitable for the ordinary 

 system of corn-growing — such as heavy spring and 

 autumn rainfalls and paucity of sunshine in August — 

 are the very conditions favourable to the new system, 

 or to the Continuous Cropping generally. 



