harrow, puts the land in nice condition. It is also well to run Food for 

 a small-tooth harrow across corn rows about the time the plants 

 plants are coming up, and even after they are several inches I0 3 

 high, slanting the teeth of the harrow backward. Harrowing 

 in this way saves after-cultivation, and is a quick way of get- 

 ting over the land. The land being thoroughly broken before 

 the corn is put in the ground, only shallow, level cultivation 

 with some one of the considerable number of good cultivators 

 need be given during the growing season. The one-horse 

 cultivators cover corn rows in two to three furrows, and the 

 two-horse ones at a single trip. The cultivation should be 

 frequent about every ten days and if possible just after 

 rains, so as to break any crust formed by showers, leaving a 

 dust mulch to retard the loss of moisture added to the soil in 

 the previous rains. Toward the end of the growing season 

 the cultivators should only be run one to one and a half 

 inches deep, so as to disturb as little as possible the roots of 

 the plants, which, by that time, are well into the middle of the 

 rows. 



The experimental work on the sandv 



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soils of the east, reports of which have been . ^ 



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made previously, has progressed tar 



enough, we feel, to draw some conclusions in reference to the 

 best amounts and proportions of Nitrogen, phosphoric acid 

 and potash for corn. As the results of the past two years' 

 work have not yet been published, the following formulas, 

 based on the result of the first two years' tests and tests in 

 other States with similar soil and climatic conditions, are 

 given as good ones for corn : 



FOR CORN ON LAND IN FAIR CONDITION. 



Acid phosphate, 14 per cent, phosphoric acid 1,045 Ibs. 



Cotten-seed meal, 6.59 per cent, nitrogen, 2.5 phosphoric 



acid and 1.5 potash 520 Ibs. 



Nitrate of Soda, 15 per cent, nitrogen 225 Ibs. 



Kainit, 12.5 per cent, potash 210 Ibs. 



2,000 Ibs. 



In this formula one-half of the Nitrogen is supplied by 

 Nitrate of Soda and the other one-half by cotton-seed meal. 

 This mixture will contain: available phosphoric acid, 8.0 per 

 cent.; potash, 1.7 per cent.; nitrogen, 3.4 per cent, (equal to 

 ammonia, 4.0 per cent.) . 



