INDIAN CORN. 



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third to two-thirds of an acre. Plats 4, 5 and 6 received a 

 dressing of fresh stable manure, applied in winter and spring, 

 before planting. Plats 1 and 6 were broken up in the usual 

 way, two to three inches deep. Plats 2 and 5 were trench- 

 plowed in addition to this breaking, that is to say, a com- 

 mon turning plow followed the breaker and threw about 

 four inches of soil over the inverted sod. Plats 3 and 4 in 

 addition to the plowing received by plats 2 and 5, were also 

 subsoiled, the subsoiler following the trenching plow and 

 loosing the soil to the depth of ten to fifteen inches. The 

 land was harrowed and planted immediately with yellow 

 corn. Cultivators were run through the rows during the 

 season to keep the surface open. The season was an unu- 

 sually unfavorable one. Corn stood the drought well, and 

 was cut and shocked in September and husked in October, 

 both grain and stalks being very dry. 



The following table gives the result in shelled corn : 



Ph 



PREPARATION OF SOIL. 



Common breaking alone 



Common breaking and trenching 

 Same as plat 2 and subsoiled. . . 



Same as 3, with manure 



Same as 2, with manure 



Same as 1, with manure 



rH ax 



5^ 



1,000 

 1,40/i 

 l,6aS 

 1,224 

 1,816 

 1,026 



One well marked difference is, the soft corn is reduced 

 and the amount of stalks increased on the manured. 



Mr. John W. Murray, of Carroll county, Maryland, re- 

 ports in the Agricultural Report of U. S., that in 1873 he 

 raised thirty and a half barrels (152J bushels) of shelled 

 corn per acre. The lot was below the road and the barn- 

 yard, and received the washings from both, and had been in 

 grass for fifteen years. In 1872, he broke and put it in corn, 



