8 HINTS ON RAISING FARM CROPS 
Corn is generally grown in what farmers 
call a rotation of crops. This simply means 
that corn is grown one or two years on a cer¬ 
tain piece of land, then perhaps oats the next 
year, and clover for the next two or three 
years. The manure for land in such a rotation 
as just described, is best put on before the 
corn crop. One method that is used by a great 
number of farmers is to plow up the land that 
is to be put into corn the following year. This 
land, unless composed mostly of sand, should 
be plowed in the fall of the year, and then 
manure hauled on before spring, at the rate of 
ten to fifteen tons to the acre. This manure 
should be disced in, in the spring, so that it 
may be thoroughly incorporated in the soil. 
This gives the corn a good start in the spring, 
because the manure is where the young plants 
can reach it, and there will be no clogging of 
the moisture from below. 
Different types of soil will demand different 
operations for preparing the soil in the spring 
for the seed. When land is worked up to a 
good tilth in the spring, so that the seed will 
have the best opportunity of sprouting, we call 
such a condition of the soil, “a good seed bed.” 
In general, however, it is advisable to disc and 
then drag the land after it has been plowed. 
Fall plowing is generally to be preferred, but 
sometimes this cannot be done, so early spring 
plowing must be resorted to. After the plowed 
land is disced, and then dragged with a smooth¬ 
ing harrow, it is ready for planting. 
Corn is a plant that needs fairly warm tem¬ 
perature to germinate, or spout, so it is always 
