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creasing yillds, he quoted the recommendation of the Extension Service at VPI -who list these five steps:
1. Use a hybrid adapted to your county.
2. Prepare a good seedbed and plant corn about an inch deep.
3. Be sure the soil has enough nitrogen, phosphate and potash, the exact amount depending on soil fertility, whether manured, and whether a legume was turned. For average soils, the use of 600 to 900 pounds of a complete fer-. tilizer, as recommended by your County Agent, and 60 to 80 lbs. of nitrogen should) produce 76 to 100 bushels of corn.
4. Plant corn for a final stand of 12,000 to 16,000 stalks per
5. Cultivate shallow. I Bridgforth pointed out that despite a large corn crop last year, a record in Virginia, there is nevertheless need for still more this year. He explained that livestock numbers are increasing rapidly due to the high demand for meat brought about partly by the national emergency. This demand has forced the Nation to draw heavily on our reserve corn supply. It is estimated that reserve com stocks on October 1, 1951, the beginning of the marketing year, will be one third less than a year ago.
For this reason, Bridgforth said that a 1951 crop national acreage guide of 90,000,000 acres has been set. That is 6,000,000 more than was planted in 1950.
Virginia was also asked to produce more soybeans for beans. According to March planting intentions, State farmers will probably plant 148,000 acres of soybeans. That (would be 6 per cent more than the 1951 guide of 140,000 and well above the 133,000 acres planted last year.
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