74 Good Start for a Profitable Coru Crop 
RECOMMENDATIONS 
FOR GROWING CORN 
. Corn yields best when a good sod is well manured and 
plowed under at least two weeks prior to Corn planting. 
- Weed control is most efficiently attained by successive 
seed-bed operations prior to planting. 
. For silage, select a medium tall, leafy, erect, productive 
Corn that will reach hard dough stage by harvest. 
. For grain, select a Corn that is productive, has sturdy 
stalks and will get fully ripe. 
Plant May 10 to 25, soil and weather conditions per- 
mitting. Follow fertilizer recommendations. 
For grain, Corn in 36-inch rows should average one 
stalk per 10 inches of row, and for silage one stalk 
per 9 inches of row. 
Round or small kernels produce as much Corn per acre 
as flat kernels, provided the proper planting rate is used. 
Test for accuracy of planting. 
- Weeds should be controlled when small by shallow 
cultivation. Deep cultivation prunes Corn roots and 
reduces the yield. 
9. For maximum yields postpone harvest of silage till ears 
are at least in hard dough stage and of grain till ears are 
fully mature. 
FOR DIBBLE’S SEED CORN 
EXT to hay, Corn is the most important crop on crop should be at the proper maturity before frost, 
the livestock farm. The dairy farmer is mainly whether for silage or for grain. Naturally a later-matur- 
interested in Corn for his silo, while many other ing variety can be planted for silage than for husking. 
farmers need a Corn to husk and crib for feeding. It is We list below the varieties of Hybrid and Open- 
important to select a variety that will mature for the pur- pollinated Corns that we recommend for various con- 
pose for which it is to be used. If for silage, it should be ditions on Northeastern farms. They are listed in 
in the hard dough stage when put in the silo; if for grain, order of maturity as tested on our own farms. The 
it should be mature enough so that it will keep in the crib maturity dates are average and, of course, will vary 
without danger of molding. In other words, the Corn with the locality and the season. 
Ee ae Mainly for grain production in New York State above eleva- 
EARLY Wise, 335 tions of 600 feet and early to medium seasons of the Nous 
100 to 110 days ) CemeiL Mel east. eee for early silage producers, Cornell M-1 
Mam. 8-rowed Yellow Flint J eS eEy: 
For grain in the good growing sections of western New York 
MEDIUM Cornell M-4 State and similar seasons of the Northeast. Excellent yields 
110 to 115 days 1 Cornell 29-3 for silage at elevations around 800 feet in New York State 
Ohio M-15 and similar seasons of the Northeast. 
( Extremely heavy silage producers for the good Corn-grow- 
: ing dairy sections in New York State and the Northeast. 
MEDIUM LATE Ohio K-62 For grain in the best Corn-growing sections of the Lower 
115 to 125 days 1 Ohio K-24 Hudson, Long Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 
Connecticut. 
West Branch Sweepstakes 
Leaming 
Lancaster County Sure Crop 
LATE 
130 days 
Open-pollinated varieties that produce high yields of silage 
in the best growing sections of the Northeast. 
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