Food for How Deep in the Ground to Plant Corn. 



Plants 

 The following is the result of an experiment with Indian Corn. That 



194 which was planted at the depth of 



1 inch, came up in 8)4 days. 



i^ inch, came up in g}4 days. 



2 inches, came up in 10 days. 



2% inches, came up in Il^ days. 



3 inches, came up in 12 days. 



3^ inches, came up in 13 days. 



4 inches, came up in 13^ days. 



The more shallow the seed was covered with earth, the more rapidly the 

 sprout made its appearance, and the stronger afterwards was the stalk. The 

 deeper the seed lay, the longer it remained before it came to the surface. 

 Four inches was too deep for the maize, and must, therefore, be too deep for 

 smaller kernels. 



Amount of Barbed Wire Required for Fences. 



Estimated number of pounds of Barbed Wire required to fence space or 

 distances mentioned, with one, two or three lines of wire, based upon each 

 pound of wire measuring one rod (16J feet). 



I Line. 2 Lines. 3 Lines. 



I square acre 50% lbs. loi^/^ lbs. 152 lbs. 



I side of a square acre. . . 127^ lbs. 25^3 lbs. 38 lbs. 



I square half-acre 36 lbs. 72 lbs. 108 lbs. 



I square mile 1280 lbs. 2560 lbs. 3840 lbs. 



I side of a square mile . . 230 lbs. 640 lbs. 960 lbs. 



I rod in length i lb. 2 lbs. 3 lbs. 



100 rods in length 100 lbs. 200 lbs. 300 lbs. 



100 feet in length 6yi6lbs. 12% lbs. i8%6 lbs. 



How Grain will Shrik. 



Farmers rarely gain by holding on to their grain after it is lit for market, 

 when the shrinkage is taken into account. Wheat, from the time it is 

 threshed, will shrink two quarts to the bushel or six per cent, in six months, 

 in the most favorable circumstances. Hence, it follows that ninety-four 

 cents a bushel for wheat when first threshed in August, is as good, taking 

 into account the shrinkage alone, as one dollar in the following February. 



Corn shrinks much more from the time it is first husked. One hundred 

 bushels of ears, as they come from the field in November, will be reduced to 

 not far from eighty. So that forty cents a bushel for corn in the ear, as it 

 comes from the field, is as good as fifty in March, shrinkage only being taken 

 into account. 



In the case of potatoes — taking those that rot and are otherwise lost — 

 together with the shrinkage, there is but little doubt that between October 

 and June, the loss to the owner who holds them is not less than thirty-three 

 per cent. 



This estimate is taken on the basis of interest at 7 per cent., and takes no 

 account of loss by vermin. 



One hundred pounds of Indian meal is equal to 76 pounds of wheat, 83 

 of oats, 90 of rye, iii of barley, 333 of corn stalks. 



