Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — ABOUT CORN RAISING. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT CORN RAISING.

Bulletin 43 of the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station contains information of interest and importance concerning corn and sugar beets as grown in Indiana. The following are some of the important points regarding corn, brought out in the bulletin; The earliest planting of corn has given an average yield of about two bushels more per acre than any other planting, and over 12 bushels more than the last, planting. The highest average yield has been obtained from the thickest planting, (stalks about eleven inches apart in the drill-row); but if the crop is to be husked it will be better to have the stalks twelve to fourteen inches apart. The average results of a two years’ experiment indicates the desirability of deep plowing for corn. Shallow cultivation of corn has given better results than either medium or deep cultivation. Shallow running corn cultivators have produced higher average yields than those which deeply stir the soil.

A judicious rotation of crops, involving grains and grasses, lias produced average yields of corn 18 per cent., of wheat 37 per cent., and of oats 41 per cent, larger than continuous grain growing. Stable manure has produced far better, and far more lasting effects on the yield of corn than commercial fertilizers. In experiments thus far, applications of commercial fertilizers to corn have generally proved unprofitable. Moderate applications of stable manure to corn have produced almost as good yields of corn for the first year as heavy dressings. Stable manure has seldom returned a profit from its use the first year, but the aggregate increase in yield of the several crops benefitted has generally been sufficient to insure handsome profits.

Ten different makes of Sewing machines, At Steward’s. Bargains in HATS, Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Mrs. Lecklider’s. Thirteen-stop, full Walnut case or. gan, $35. C. B. Steward. Warner and Shead, the new grocery Arm. Give them atrial. Call on C. B. Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from §25 to $l3O. Remember Busliey, the butcher, i when you want good meat. ID is here to stay , and sells nothing but the best. Grand opening of new and elegant j spring millinery at the Misses Meyer’s, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of this week. Clarence Lecklider has just received a full line of new installment goods. Lace curtains, bed spread sets, tabla and stand covers, portiers, rugs and sweepers, which are sold on weekly installments from 1 ct to $1 per week. The Misses Meyer’s grand opening, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 13, 14 and 15. AU are invited.

Wantfd —Ladies to assist me in selling ihe famous “Gloria Water,” for the complexion. Terms liberal. Address Mrs. Mary H. Watson Pleasant Ridge, Ind. Manager branch office. Austin & Co., composed of W B. Austin, A. 11. Hopkins, Geo. K. Hollingsworth, willQloan you money on personal,mortgage, or chattel security, for long or short time at local bank rates. These loens can be paid back at any time, and are more desirable than bank loans, because interest is rebated. We have udlimited capital and can accomodate everybody. Persons who are subject to attacks of bilious colic can almost invariably tell, by tbeir feeling, when to expect an attack* If Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is taken as soon as those symptons appear, they can ward off the disease. Such persons should always keep the Remedy at hand, ready for immediate use when needed. Two or three doses .of it at the right (imo will save bbem much suffering. For sale by Meyers, the druggist.