Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1911 — Fowler Man Says Deep Plowing Is Responsible for Corn Moisture. [ARTICLE]

Fowler Man Says Deep Plowing Is Responsible for Corn Moisture.

Fowler Republican-Leader. Billy Van Natta was talking that he would never give another dollar for the corn shows. The farmers were growing corn so big that it never ripened. Then Mr. Carson talked. The model ear is but about nine inches in diameter and is not very large. But the trouble was that the farmers were plowing deeper and tending the corn later than formerly and thereby kept the corn green longer than formerly. Hie learned this a few years ago by watching a neighbor. The neighbor did not plow very deep; got through planting in a hurry, and did not plqyv the corn after July Ist; and both had the same seed, but the neighbor’s corn was dry as a bone at husking time, while his was not. This story has no moral.