FIELD CROPS. II 



four beans every six to eight inches in the row ; cover one 

 to two inches ; cultivate and keep clean. Ground rich 

 in potash and phosphoric acid is best suited to the 

 bean crop. Therefore, wood-ashes, or those from the 

 cotton seed hulls, and ground bone would be good fertil- 

 izers to use. 



CORN. (Zea mays.) 



This important crop may be divided into three classes : 

 The common, or late field kinds, the early kinds, or the 

 green corn varieties, and the sweet or sugar corn, of 

 which there are many kinds. 



FIELD CoRisr. The large, late corn, such as is usually 

 planted throughout the Southern States for the main 

 crop, should be given a greater distance between the 

 plants than the early and sugar varieties. Corn needs 

 a rich soil. Do not plant it unless you have either a rich 

 soil, or plenty of manure. Commercial fertilizers act 

 finely on corn crops. The richer the land, the more the 

 corn can be crowded, but the most appioved plan for 

 planting large, late varieties, is : to lay off furrows six 

 feet apart and four inches deep, then drop the seed eight 

 to ten inches, covering two or three inches deep so as to 

 leave the corn plant a little below the surface when it 

 comes up. Thin out the corn sixteen to twenty inches 

 apart ; after the first working cultivate shallow and level. 

 Corn will very well bear crowding in the furrow, provided 

 it is given sufficient distance between rows. Leave the 

 land level when laid by. Plant a row of beans between 

 the rows of corn in June. Another plan is, to check 

 the land off three and one-half to four feet each way, 

 according to the strength of the soil. Drop three or four 

 kernels in each check and cover two or three inches deep. 

 At the first plowing thin out to one stalk in a hill. 

 When planted in this manner, plowing may be done both 

 ways, thereby avoiding hoeing. The yield, however, will 



