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Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886
Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886, Page 41
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39 in the cornfield near enough. Time and money are saved and made by harrowing the ground before the corn comes up and again when it is three or four inches high. The harrow should be light and have the teeth slanting back. There will be some plantlets destroyed, but not many. If there is what most farmers call a good stand, it will bear some thinning. We have seen corn harrowed when it six and eight inches high. The harrow tears out the grass and weeds which have started to grow since the plowing of the ground, besides breaking up clods, and evening the ground.
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39 in the cornfield near enough. Time and money are saved and made by harrowing the ground before the corn comes up and again when it is three or four inches high. The harrow should be light and have the teeth slanting back. There will be some plantlets destroyed, but not many. If there is what most farmers call a good stand, it will bear some thinning. We have seen corn harrowed when it six and eight inches high. The harrow tears out the grass and weeds which have started to grow since the plowing of the ground, besides breaking up clods, and evening the ground.
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