CORN LETTERS FROM THIRTY FARMERS 149 
seeding. The ground should be plowed to a depth of about six inches, 
rolling down every evening what, has been plowed that day and follow- 
ing up with a spring-tooth harrow or disc pulverizer. The field should 
be gone over with these implements until a perfect seed bed is obtained. 
I use a light roller immediately before planting and follow with a 
two-horse planter with an open wheel planting about twelve inches for 
silo and sixteen inches for husking. 
The third day after planting I use a smoothing harrow with teeth 
set slanting and go over the field again about the sixth or seventh day 
after the corn has the second leaf. Next I use a flat-tooth round point 
weeder, going over the field about twice or until the corn is large enough 
to use a two-horse cultivator with shields to keep dirt from rolling on 
the corn. I follow the first plowing with the weeder, running cross- 
ways, after which I cultivate about three times more during season with 
the shields removed from the cultivator. The first cultivation may be 
about three inches deep, after that from one and a half to two inches 
is deep enough. I also use from two to three hundred pounds of 
fertilizer analyzing about 1—8—4. We harvest with a corn binder 
previous to silo filling, leaving it lay as the machine drops it for two 
days. If it is husked it is set up in shocks a second or third day 
after it is cut. In our latitude we like to plant between the twentieth 
of May and the first of June, if corn is put into the silo. 
Yours truly, JOHN A. BAUSCH. 
Mr. Bausch makes a speciality of selling butter, eggs and pork 
direct to the consumer. 
Greenfork, Indiana, April 15th, 1913. 
W. T. Ainsworth & Sons, Mason City, Illinois. 
Dear Sirs:—In this community most of the land is a white and red 
clay, except where the ravines course along, but there is a good deal 
of black ground, too. The land lays practically level, although nearer 
the river it is a little rolling. 
I do not plow my stalk ground at all in the fall and do not want 
much for spring plowing if it can be helped. With the exception of 
new land we follow mostly a rotation of corn, wheat and clover. I like 
to plow my ground five to six inches deep. If I had the machinery 
I would always cut the cornstalks and plow them under, because I 
believe it would loosen and enrich the land; as it is I find it necessary 
