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THE RURAL N EW-VORKER 
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THE STORY OF A CANADIAN FARM. 
The Round of the Seasons. 
Part II. 
Fodder Crops. —The first sowing of 
peas and oats, about three-fourths acre, 
was made the first week in May. The 
second sowing was two weeks later, 
on about one-half acre of land. These 
two small pieces, used as a supplement 
to pasture, helped our herd of 15 cows 
to keep up their flow of milk during 
several weeks of the drought, leaving 
quite a bit to ripen as well. When the 
last of these sowings became too ripe 
to feed, we had access for a few days 
to a small late-sown field of oats, which 
bridged over the interval until corn 
was fit to cut. About one-fourth acre 
of Soy beans were planted in drills 
as an experiment, but the best of them 
only reached a height of about three 
feet. They were cut and fed green to 
cows, pigs and calves—all kinds of "ani¬ 
mals eating them readily. These beans 
were planted very late—the middle of 
June, and were not given the best of 
soil or the best of cultivation. Under 
more favorable conditions I think they 
would be a profitable crop to grow for 
fodder even in this climate. 
Corn.— Our first field was planted on 
May 24. This is a gravelly hillside with 
a slate rock bottom, and in some places 
the rock is not more than six inches 
below the surface. The planting was 
done with a one-horse machine, drop¬ 
ping a small amount of fertilizer close 
to the hill. This field had received a 
good dressing of manure two years be¬ 
fore, so was not in poor condition. 
A native yellow flint eight-rowed variety 
was used, the seed being tarred and 
dried with wood ashes before planting. 
We have found that thorough tarring 
will discourage crows and blackbirds. 
If some kernels are left untarred Mr. 
Crow is pretty sure to find it out and 
will keep on pulling with the expectation 
that each new hill attacked may contain 
a palatable kernel. Every kernel should 
be as black as your boot. The field of 
corn in question was near a strip of 
woods, and was visited every day by 
crows, but very few hills were pulled. 
The planter we used, however, proved 
to be a poor affair. It dropped both 
corn and fertilizer "satisfactorily, but 
failed to cover deeply enough. On ac¬ 
count of shallow planting on this light 
soil, followed by a dry hot Summer, the 
crop was scarcely above the average. 
Part of the field was fairly well eared, 
but the stalks were small and short. 
A family of raccoons from the neighbor¬ 
ing woods must have had a number of 
successful picnics here during the early 
Fall, to judge from the numbers of 
empty cobs found on the ground when 
this field was cut. I doubt if one family 
of “coons” could do so much mischief— 
probably some of the neighbors and 
friends were invited as well. This corn 
was shocked, cured in the field and 
husked out in the barn on rainy days 
when we could not dig potatoes or plow. 
The stalks were dry enough to pack in 
a mow with safety, and were fed out 
in the early Winter—the cattle eating 
every particle. The last to be fed, how¬ 
ever, had been slightly damaged by 
mice and rats who were after the small 
nubbins left at the time of husking. We 
find this the great objection to curing 
green oats or other grain for fodder. 
Unle. s it is fed out early in the Winter, 
these rodents will destroy a lot of it and 
make the whole unpalatable. Our flock 
of laying hens are making good use of 
part of the corn, from this field, turning 
it into Winter eggs, which pay about 
as well as anything these days. 
Fodder Corn. —The fodder corn was 
planted on the 10th of June, missing 
about three weeks of growing weather. 
Part of this field had to be cleared of 
stones, part was too wet, and part had to 
be manured before it could be planted. 
When the land was at last ready, we im¬ 
provised a two-horse corn planter by 
using the grain drill. Two of the drills 
were used, three feet apart, a temporary 
hopper for each one being made by 
tacking wide shingles—shaved to fit the 
slanting sides of the box. This worked 
all right, but the corn had to be thor¬ 
oughly dried after tarring, otherwise it 
would come out in lumps and not feed 
evenly from the drill. By tilting the 
draw-bar down the seed could be planted 
as deeply as necessary, and was all well 
covered. The land was rolled immedi¬ 
ately after planting. A little of the 
White Cap yellow dent variety was 
sown, but most of the field was planted 
to .Sanford, a small but quick-growing 
early white flint variety. Some of the 
long kernels of the dent variety were 
broken in passing through the feed 
wheel of the drill, but not enough seri¬ 
ously to affect the stand. The smaller, 
round kernels of the Sanford, passed 
through uninjured. Sanford was used 
on account of the lateness of planting. 
W e wanted a variety that would mature 
ears if possible before frost. As it turned 
out this corn was just in the boiling 
stage when frost struck it slightly on 
September 18. It was cut soon after and 
put whole into the silo. By the way, 
other fields of corn not three miles dis¬ 
tant, but lying on higher ground, were 
uninjured by frost weeks after. One 
or two fields were still standing green 
after the middle of October. So much 
for atmospheric drainage. 
Commercial Fertilizers on Corn.— 
The cornfield of a neighbor, lying just 
across the road from ours, afforded a 
good illustration of the effect of a small 
dressing of commercial fertilizer com¬ 
pared with stable manure alone. His 
field, which has received no manure for 
many years on’ account of its distance 
from the farm buildings, was given 300 
pounds per acre of a commercial corn 
manure. This was applied in the hills by 
the machine at the time of planting. The 
soil is the same as ours—a good sandy 
loam—with better natural drainage on 
his side of the road. Our field received 
10 tons of stable manure per acre, the 
last of four dressings in a period of 12 
years. It was planted a week later than 
our neighbor’s, and for the first month 
did not compare with his. On his side 
of the road the readily available plant 
food in the fertilizer started the corn 
at owce. It fairly jumped for a few 
weeks and was of a rich dark green 
color, showing the effect of the available 
nitrogen. At the same time our field 
showed a sickly yellowish green color 
and grew very slowly. But its root sys¬ 
tem was developing and fibers reaching 
out in all directions for that manure. A 
few underdrains through this field would 
undoubtedly have warmed this soil, 
thereby promoting' beneficial chemical 
changes which would have rendered the 
abundant plant food in that well-stocked 
soil more readily available to the young 
corn. However, in a few weeks the scene 
was changed. As the weather became 
hotter and the soil dried out our corn 
quickly changed color, taking on a dark 
healthy green, and now growing very 
rapidly. Across the road the conditions 
were exactly reversed. That small dress¬ 
ing of fertilizer was coon exhausted, and 
then the corn had little to fall back on; 
consequently it changed from a beautiful 
green to a sickly yellow, and grew very 
little during the rest of the season. An¬ 
other 300 pounds per acre of that fer¬ 
tilizer sown broadcast and worked into 
the soil at the first or second cultivation 
would probably have doubled the yield 
of corn on that land. On the other hand, 
if our field had been underdrained it 
could have been planted earlier, the soil 
would have been warmer, the plant food 
in it more readily available, and the corn 
—instead of standing still for a couple 
of weeks—would have grown steadily 
from the start. It would have paid, I 
think, taking conditions as they were, 
to have used a small amount of fertil¬ 
izer in planting the corn to help it over 
the early period of its growth, when it 
was reaching out underground for that 
manure, and nearly forgetting that it had 
stems and leaves to develop above the 
surface. c. s. moore. 
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