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it is easily understood why TOO DEEP CULTIVATION will reduce yields from corn hybrids or compared to old type corn. When a corn hybrid reaches knee height CULTIVATIONS OVER 2 or 3 inches DEEP WILL DESTROY a large number of corn roots. For this reason farmers are urged to check their cultivator plates while cultivating corn to make sure they are not cutting roots which, if they are, will be hung on the plates.
Since one year’s results are not to be taken as conclusive evidence and in view of the importance of conducting the experiment under as identical-conditions as possible, Mr. Estes has agreed to repeating the experiment' in 1951 and we hope again in 1952.
D. D. Miller’s veterans’ class assisted in checking the results of the experiment by harvesting the 1950 crop.
For tlve coming season it is recommended that our farmers continue planting the hybTid varieties they have found satisfactory.
Contestants in the 1950 “100Bushel Corn Contest’’ will dine at the Lee Highway Hotel at Sperryville at 7 o’clock tomorrow evening. These contestants include:
Adult division — D. D. Miller, Earl Kilby, Nelson Atkins, Bub Gore, and Stan Weaver;
Junior division — Richard Griffith, Kelly Updike, and Newbill Miller.
At this time yields will be announced and prizes awarded.
Prices include the sterling silber plate donated by Southern States and Rappahannock Supply; the latter organisation will also donate: for first prise one bushel adapted certified corn hybrid seed and %-bushel for 2nd and 3rd in both the adult and junior divisions!
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