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vested by husking in the field I drag down 
the stalks with a cutaway harrow and 
then split the ridges with a sulky disk 
cultivator followed by a middle burster 
thereby listing all the stalks, pea vines, 
etc., into the furrows and ridging the 
land for the coming winter’s Irish potato 
crop. There is a marked improvement 
in the fertility of land where trash is con¬ 
served as humus instead of being burned 
off. After the corn has dried out several 
weeks on a floor, I keep it in old straw¬ 
berry refrigerators which are rat proof 
and as warm weather comes on about 
once a month pour in a little bi-sulphide 
of carbon to kill the weevils. I expect to 
shell, sack and sell more than enough 
corn each year to pay for making the 
crop. 1 estimate my average yearly yield 
at thirty bushels of shelled corn per acre 
chough sometimes the best land will run 
as high as fifty bushels. Several south¬ 
ern experiment stations have proved it 
does not pay to pull corn fodder, the loss 
in weight and solidity of the corn costing 
more than the fodder is worth. After 
leveling the potato land crab grass comes 
in plentifully, and two cuttings, August 
and October, average at least four tons 
of hay per acre. 
With home grown corn and hay as ro¬ 
tation summer crops for the winter veg¬ 
etables, the Florida farmers have a great 
advantage for the acreage cultivated over 
their northern brethren. 
