For Top Yields, Agway Specialist Advises:
Space Corn Seed Properly
Com planting time is here
This advice from Nick Fen ant
Jr, crops specialist, in a recent
edition of Agway Cooperator,
may help local farmers attain
better yields this fall.
Mention the figure 18,000 or
20,000 or 22,000 to any coin
grower and he will shake his
head lather vigorously to in
dicate he not only knows wha*
you are talking about, but a lot
more to boot.
Check into it a little closer,
though, and you’ll find he will
back off a mite as to whethe’
this is seed to plant or plants at
harvest, and if the 15 per cent
mortality factor has been woi k
ed into the final figures or not
.With a lot of prodding, figur
in'' and thinking, and a couple
of weeks notice, most will come
up with some soit of decent,
correct answer.
And yet, in 75 per cent of the
counts I make in com fields.
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the intended and thought of
final populations are from 10
to 20 per cent in error, running
from 1000 to as much as 5000
plants low or high. Practically
all will be on the low side.
This loss in potential popula
tion can cost you from 7 to 35
bushels of corn. You see that
it pays to end up with the popu
lation you planned on.
Yet having the correct popu
lation is really not the final
answer at all; more important
is the area of growth you gave
each plant and how accurately
you planted each kernel. Kow
your individual plant stands
stress is the result of many fac
tois, but an important one is
the area available for each root
system to develop without com
petition from a neighbor mg
mot system
There are many reasons for
nauow lows, but an important
one is to give each plant moie
elbow room You see, narrow
rows do not have to mean more
plants per acre To illustrate,
22,000 plants in 40 inch rows
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That's a fact that's been
proven at state experiment
stations throughout the Corn
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will have 84 plants per 50 feet;
in 30 inch lows this will be only
63 plants or almost 25 per cent
less. This means that each loot
system will have almost 25 pei
cent moie soil area down the
row in which to develop.
But having 22,000 plants in
30 inch rows will give your root
system more growing space,
only if we have very accurate
planting. This is where most ol
you fall down badly.
To gam this extra space, each
seed must fall rather accurately
about 6 to 7 inches apart Ex
cept for some of the new speci
alty type of planters, it’s a sheei
miracle if anything approaching
this accuiacy occurs
With the noimal planter you
may get youi 22,000 seed in the
giound, but the icsult often
looks like flies on the ban
door—sort of bunched
Field cheeking will show ?
lot of gioups of two, a couple ol
inches apart, and all too many
groups of three If only 15 pei
cent fall in groups of thiee, il
means over 1000 plants crushcc
and smashed between tw<
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As impoitanl, this crowded many management factors 1
stalk is usually thin and has above is a small, but oh, so i
a poor root system. portant one.
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