Maize Growing.

Te Aroha News, Issue 166, 21 August 1886, Page 4 (Supplement)

Maize Growing.

They know how to grow maize in America If anywhere in the world, and therefore the following advice from the columns of the Rural HfeMO Yorker is worth noting by New Zealand growera of this orop : — We have advocated driiling-in corn, broadcast manuring, and shallow and level cultivation for six years, and are more earnest in the advocacy of this method now, than ever before. The advice, we believe, is sound in theory and practice, though there should never diverge, and we believe that all progressive farmers will raise their corn in this way within a very few years. Planting two, three or four kernels in a hill means crowding, and this means less crop. Manuring in the hill means a surfeit of food for the. young plants and starvation to the old plants. Deep cultivation means the severing of roots that the plants need at every stage of growth. Hilling-up me«an.s the removal of soil from where it is more needed to where it is less needed. Think over these statements. Condemn them not, unless you have tried our method as well as the old method and found jt wanting. We have tried both methods*, and would no sooner return to the old one than we would relinquish the mowing-machine of to-day, for the scythe of the past.