16—Lancaster Fanning,
Saturday. August 26, 1961
• Youth Aims
(From page 1)
field lies at the bottom of a
long senes of contour stops,
Richard felt he might have
enough water for the big
yield he was going for.
He plowed down 1,200 lbs.
of ammonium nitrate and a
like amount of the super
phosphate on his plot of
slightly over an acre.
He worked the soil down
and planted the com on 40-
inch rows drilling in 200
pounds of 0-20-20 fertilizer
to get the corn oft to a good
start
He calibrated the corn
planted and found it would
not put on the rate of seed
he knew he needed for his
stand He wanted the stalks
on the row to be only about
four inches apart, but since
the planter would space the
grain only about eight inches
apart, he double drilled the
grains to get about 21,000
plant population.
Richard cultivated the
corn twice, but with the fre
quent rains of the summer
he found he was having some
weed problem The moisture
promoted dense growth of
corn which caused spindly
growth of what weeds did
survive the cultivation, but
some of the'corn stalks tend
ed to become spindly in the
fight for sunlight also
Richard, the son of Mr.
and Mrs Carson Geyer, does
not yet know if he will reach
his goal of 200 bushels per
acre In fact he has not yet
decided if he will harvest
crop for gram If the mois
ture situation does not im
prove in the next two or
three weeks, and it looks as
though the corn may not fill
out good ears, the crop may
be put in the silo and a rec
ord yield planned for anoth
er year.
Richard has not pinned all
his hopes on the corn crop
His supervised farming pro
gram includes, in addition to
the corn, a dairy heifer and
3,000 broilers which he rais
es in batches of 1,000 head
each.
If he does not make his
goal, Richard feels he has
learned much about corn
production, and he will be
anxious to try again.
There are substitutes in
some lines but none for prac
tice
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