Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — Drilled or Hilled Corn. [ARTICLE]

Drilled or Hilled Corn.

Drilling corn—». e., raising it in continuous rows about jhree and onethalf feet apart, and a,stalk once in about si* inches in the.row—undoubtedly gives, more corn and more stalks to the acre) than planting in hHls, thiec ieat apart &aoh was, for th© very simple fetfipntbftt

inches apart we*iil have as many on an acre as wv would if we planted seven kernels in hills. .Seven kernels are too many in one bill, but when six inches opart in rows the roots have a much If thetf-iind is Mod or much infested hills are more convenient a s being susceptible of cultivation both ways by horse power; the land can be amah more perfectly tilled. High farming admits of drills, and two of the best this country ever had—John Johzison, near Geneva, and A. B. Dickinson, formerly of Steuben County, N. Y.—both practiced raising their com crops in drills. Bat they were in the habit of planting corn on clean land, preferring to kill weeds while raising crops that required less manual labor and admitted of mote horse work.—if. Y. Tribune.