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TFiLi i^'JRAL NEW-YORKER 
December 8, 
the Winter the snow drifted down over 
the hillside, so that we could not get up 
the hill at all, and we then drew it as 
far as we could and piled it up. When 
there came a thaw and the drifts shrank 
in size we shoveled out and that pile of 
manure went up the hill. In all we drew 
about 200 big loads of rich stable manure 
on to the “worthless” 10 acres, but we 
had applied it so thickly that still about 
an acre was left when it came time to 
plow for corn. The field was then plowed 
just as lightly as would do to cover the 
manure and furnish dirt for tilling the 
corn, and the land roller went right after 
the plow to firm down the sod and leave 
no air holes to dry it out. The harrows 
—'both disk and spring-tooth—followed 
the roller, and the corn was immediately 
planted with the grain drill, using but 
two hoes, which drilled the corn thinly 
42 inches apart. The land roller went 
right after the drill to pack the soil 
around the corn, and the weeder followed 
the roller to mulch the top and keep 
back the moisture. Those who have con¬ 
sidered how much water there is in a 
ton of silage corn and wish to raise 20 
tons per acre, are very careful to keep 
a good lot of water back in the soil for 
the use of the growing corn. I forgot to 
say that I used 300 pounds commercial 
fertilizer per acre this year just to start 
the corn before the roots got a good hold 
of the stable manure. This made the 
corn come up looking good, and we got 
the cultivator right after it just as soon 
as old Dolly could follow the rows, and 
a horse that can see a row of young 
corn any sooner than Dolly can is a 
dandy. She dragged the weeder right 
up and down the hill crossways of the 
rows, and this shook tTie dirt around the 
corn in fine shape. We kept the corn 
pretty well worked up until about June 
25, and then let it alone. After the roots 
get to reaching out all through the soil 
one would better keep out of the field 
with cultivators. I was taught this by 
looking at a portion of a cornfield that 
had been badly washed by a hard rain, 
and I was greatly surprised at the mass 
of fibrous roots, and could not help see¬ 
ing how a whole lot of them would be 
cut off if the field should be cultivated 
late in the season. 
It has been very dry here all Summer, 
yet this field of corn lying on a steep 
side hill and sloping to the south has 
not shown a wilted leaf to my knowl¬ 
edge—and I have kept a pretty good 
THE WORTHLESS FIELD. 
Six years ago, when I bought Laurel 
Farm, there was one field of 10 acres that 
some people said was not worth paying 
taxes on. This field was at the extreme 
end of the farm, and was mostly rather 
steep side hill, running back from the 
road, which made it very hard to get 
stable manure on it The land lay slop¬ 
ing to the south and east, and I could see 
no reason why it should not raise good 
crops if properly handled. It had been 
in pasture for a good many years, but 
grew little but weeds, until the year be¬ 
fore I bought the farm, when it had been 
plowed up and a crop of that “poor 
man’s blessing,” buckwheat, taken off. 
I plowed the land in the Spring, and 
immediately sowed it to oats, and at the 
same time seeded it to clover and Tim¬ 
othy, using about 400 pounds of com¬ 
mercial fertilizer per acre. I got a good 
crop of oats, about 40 bushels per acre, 
and the next year I cut a fair crop of 
hay—as hay goes in this section, about 
V /2 ton per acre. But the next year the 
clover was gone, and most of the Tim¬ 
othy, a wild grass locally known as 
“poverty grass” having taken their places. 
Of course this would not do, so I plowed 
the field again, and that time I hauled 
quite a lot of stable manure on to the 
hill. It was hard work, and I did not 
get as much up there as I ought to have 
done, but what I did draw did a lot of 
good, both to the first crop of corn, the 
following crop of oats and also the grass. 
The clover caught better and stayed 
longer. 
But I again saw that the grass was 
not going to stay with me, so I did not 
wait to take the second crop, which ex¬ 
perience had taught me would be none 
too good. So last Fall as soon as the 
cattle were stabled I began to haul on to 
this side hill again. We had a very big 
l«ad every day, but as we could not get 
up the hill with the whole of it, part 
was dumped in a pile at the foot, and so 
we drew what we could. Then later in 
watch over it too. Well, T cut this field 
of corn, and I wish I could weigh it as 
we drew it to the silo. The variety is 
“Iowa Gold Mine” and it stands from 
eight to 10 feet tall on an average. Of 
course there are shorter stalks, and my 
man found some that measured 12 feet. 
This is excepting the acre left without 
stable manure, but with an extra dose of 
fertilizer, which is much lighter and 
shorter. The corn is pretty well eared 
and I think will weigh out about 15 tons 
per acre. There is a good deal of corn 
this year, planted on rich river flat land 
that has not been properly managed so 
far as conserving moisture is concerned, 
that will not cut over five tons per acre. 
In conclusion I will put in my say 
about the corn harvester. I think that 
D. P. B., on page 854, looks upon corn 
harvesters with very friendly eyes. But 
on the other hand, the man who wants to 
have all farmers prosper and not spend 
their money for harvesters seems so 
anxious to do so that he garbles his 
statements worse than the other. He 
says that a man can cut an acre of corn 
one inch from the ground in a day, and I 
will bet him the price of a harvester that 
it can’t be done. Just walk up to a hill 
of corn, place your sickle flat down on 
the ground and cut the hill. You will 
find that the sickle draws up as you cut, 
and if there be four or five stalks of corn 
in the hill, the stalk cut last will be at 
least three or four inches from the 
ground—unless you lie flat down on the 
ground and saw the hill off straight 
across. I cut this steep hillside with a 
harvester that binds the corn lying down. 
I have had no trouble with the machine 
slipping, but a portion was so very steep 
that 1 could not cut going up the hill 
with three good young horses weighing 
about 1100 pounds each, and was obliged 
to draw the machine up and cut going 
down. This was on only a small part of 
the field, and on the whole 1 have aver¬ 
aged 2J4 acres per day of from seven to 
eight hours. I can cut the corn closer 
to the ground with the harvester than I 
can hire a lot of men to cut it. 
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Grand Sweepstake Prize—New England Corn 
Exposition at Worcester 
BEST 10 EARS FLINT CORN- OPEN TO ALL NEW ENGLAND 
Raised on Hubbard’s “Bone Base” Soluble Corn and General Crops Manure by George E. Taylor, Jr., Shelburne, Mass. 
The half acre from which this lot was selected yielded 54 bushels of Shelled Corn or 103 bushels per acre. 
Mr. Taylor describes his crop and methods as follows: 
“ Shelburne, Mass., Xov. 17,1910. 
“We had 2R acres of Flint Corn. Two acres were manured at rate of 18 
40 -lmshel spreader loads stable manure per acre, plowed in with 400 lbs. Slag Meal 
ami 150 lbs. Sulphate of Potash, broadcasted on the furrow and harrowed in. 
“The other Y acre was a timothy sod, plowed. Fertilizer used, 1.000 lbs. 
Hubbard’s ‘Bone Base’ Soluble Corn and General Crops Manure, broadcasted and 
harrowed in. NC) MANURE OR OTHER FERTILIZER WHATEVER used, nor 
had the land been top-dressed with anything for three years except an applica¬ 
tion of 300 lbs. of Nitrate of Soda TWO YEARS AGO. No Fertilizer was used in 
the hill, as I have reached the conclusion that on well-fitted laml the greatest 
benefit of Fertilizer is obtained by broadcasting. 
"The Corn on both pieces was planted in checks, 3x3 feet, cultivated both ways 
frequently, as long as we could get through it. 
“As to results— On the y< acre with fIuboard's ‘Bone Base’ Soluble Corn and 
General Crops Manure ALONE, we harvested 54 bushels Shelled Corn, figuring 70 
lbs. of ears to the bushel. 
“ From this Y, acre we selected the 25 ears that won 1st in Zone Class and 1ST 
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•• I went to Worcester before the other lot was husked and iui accurate account 
was not kept of that, hut THE YIELD WAS NOT SO LARGE AS ON THE LOT 
R VISED WITH HUBBARD’S ‘BONE BASE’ SOLUBLE CORN ANI) GENERAL 
CROPS MANURE ALONE. “Yours very cordially, 
“GEORGE E. TAYLOR, Jit.” 
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