Show LITTLE RAIN FOR BIG CROPS Farmer Experiments and After Year of Extreme Dryness Get 80 Bushels an Acre Farmers In tho Southwest are finding find-Ing out how to raise corn with very little rain and not depend on Irrlga Ion either Now Mexico dry farmers will be Interested In tho following description de-scription by James D Seay of To utnseh Okla of a droughtresisting corn In answer to tho many persons who havo written mo asking for more Information regarding Scays Mexo ner Juno a variety of droughtresist Ing corn I desire to say that because of Insufficient rainfall I began to study tho dry system of farming and experimenting In crossbreeding of corn I procured some corn trot tho dry regions of Old Mexico and MOSS bred It with Homo varieties and us a result produced a variety that I have allol Seas Mexomer June Iho lame of Mexomer Indicates that the parent varieties wore selected In Mexico and Oklahoma and June that It Is to bo planted In that month This corn has successfully resisted droughts In Oklahoma for two years Last year the rainfall was so light that tracks mado while laying It were visible at harvest time Yet this ci > rn averaged sixty bushels to tho acre This year It has undergone a nix weeks drought and the average ykld Is estimated from 80 to 100 bushels nacre n-acre I place the estimate as low as 50 uishels and I expect to try to make It reach the 100 mark next year I expect to try to Increase tho yield 20 bushels aft aero each year until I beat he worlds record I may never reach I the goal to which my ambition aspires as-pires but one thing I will do and that Is promulgate and establish a system of culture and breeding that will make the greatest cereal produced In America Amer-Ica and my success so far has been achieved without tho aid of irrigation or fertilizer The secret If It should bo called the secret of growing corn successfully Is In the seed soil and cultivation Tho seed that has been Interbred with Its kin has lost vitality It con tame enough vitality to germinate but not enough to give the young plant a quick and vigorous growth When the plant comes up It looks puny and sickly It is the offspring of a long line of Interbred kin and does not possess pos-sess enough vitality to survive ft W drought The plant that successfully resists a drought must be healthy strong and vigorous Its thousands of capillaries will work automatically gathering up moisture from mother earth where there seems to be no moisture and Its growth wH be rapid Tho unhealthy plant will not resist a drought successfully suc-cessfully its capillaries do not possess pos-sess enough vitality to gather up moisture the water supply Is cut off and the plant withers and decays This defect can be removed only by using pure and highbred seed and pure seed can bo obtained only by a process of scientific breeding Tho soil and cultivation are also Important factors In successful corn culture and should by no means be overlooked |