Show HOW TO INCREASE THE CORN COIN YIELD The generation in in which cranks live Jive has no ire rc- f for r them When they dio die f UK nd a generation succeeds and looks back ove oye the work oik rk done b by h not infrequently they go goto to to work v awl and id build monument f V t a to a crank Clank of of a a generation before b ro e lS I J 1 wa T has several o of these cranks They rhey BR it t telling t the people how v to get gel about o one c or ll i v o or 01 three or a dozen b bushels J jf f corn corll on ou tho the if I f ve age pe acre more than thai M they over S did li before I. I J and explained cd that it would make dif- dif J to Iowa if they V would f. f r That is is rather a fascinating asci bait fh first st tl thing ng to d do was only to plant tested t tested ed corn to be he ber r sure ure to plant none but perfect perl corn coin and s p 9 the thc pr professors in iu the colleges anti aha high of Iowa prent Yent to work The rhe li live lie e man at tho head was Prof Prof P. P J. J who is the father of the 1110 Sf cd I pd cd corn testing movement P. P G G. Moorhead l tells bout it in in the Technical al World Wild l I Magazine gaZ ne II I- I He Ie e I 1 notes b e t there are are acres acres of corn land in ill Iowa lowa An increase of elev eleven u. u bushels of corn to acre means a a total increase of 4 J bushels Q b for the state The average price of corn corni i isEO EO cents a bushel so that thc tho bushels increase naturally So it H S proposed that the farmers of the sf state should etch e eh put pit something like seven bushels q cg good seed corn talking taking six kernels from each S f r. r th the the- seven bushels placing these kernels in six i ix ordinary id i'd boxes covering them with sheeting and damp sawdust an and l sitting around lora for a we week k the kernels had had time heat moisture and yg ll enol enough gh tc germinate an and then plant of of- the tho s 's a anie f c kind th tb that f t. t germinated F For n. n this work Iowa guarantee teeTh each 5 d r- r vU 2 far farmers S. S A 1 R Rr ua r Wv a rrt r r. r rt 1 1 P far I. I v f al Clothe the one d lays days ys work vork involved That 1 is is' is 1 lOwa vit tY gua e t rit it aU U 1 rl rUd u s tivi i tiro woul be fb eor cori I I. I this year than last lh The The- seed d corn lr conditions V ioe se c corn l were very serious ery iiI V serious in Iowa last spring A killing frost f 9 th the corn e c early ily ly la last t. t October r a year rear ago TIe The frost trost caught the seed corn before the farmer with withA A t Jesuit that l less ss s's ss than one fourth of the seed int in- in t for planting this spring was fit arid and r would The writer of the article in ill the h- h World thinks that if ir th the seed last spring had pl planted without testing the reduction in ill the this t would have been put down as as- 1 si a failure ih re of the tho crop Professor sor Holden and Bowmall told the iari farmers unless they did p plant h t tl the the- l e- e tested seed X eh cl p p would be u nearer rel two Uva hundred million than three hundred million i Vr r bushels eis The farmers were alive to the i v iJ and and their k cir crop rop this year which was as expected r e a a half failure is i a a certain proof that at the I crank cink who told them that by planting only Vt t tested se seed id l. l corn Iowa would lie liethe the tile g gainer inel by bushels takes on sonic some of the tho attributes of i arid and Iowa o is not only very rich ich v very ry proud P. P r fc x In this connection it i i int interesting sting resting to note it a Mrs Irs Gentry who lives in in iii an au Essex sex vill village ge in jn England has done in testing the possibility of one oneA A 2 gra grain l of wheat She cli dl out a conical pit of f tho the requisite m measurement measurement- t ip a pa comer corner of her garden There Thoro w was s only half an aI an inch OI of s 's ll between the grain gram of wheat which h ho bho placed in in 10 th tho X of the pit and md tho the subsoil of gra grayel cJ The top of off f. f iz V t to o pit pt was on ono on yard across V ri W 8 dug sonic somo time iii in III March mOD 1900 and the thc grain grim K I X 1 just covered with earth The Tho next time timo about three tiree rg later the grain appeared theto were half a dozen From then till the sprouting grain was wa t over and over 1 gain until the pit was leveled up and andY Y griss sg of clothed the w whole whole-of ole of tho the yard yarl wide wido circle ff the ensuing winter this miniature crop of wheat fiul ill springing from froni one grain remained in the normal stale state quiescence raf-quiescence and last spring it it l egan to go ahead again growing finely all through tho the summer Bummer until a H week pr r two Jt the tho bulk of it was obviously my ripe for cutting Tf- Tf A A I I Iff s 13 Gentry 4 gathered Jt 4 t. t TIle The I I x crop then Ii K covered an area ii- ii of about six x feet five Eighty stalks of whet were tho of tho th Twenty cats eais were of very verv Jargo Jarge size and the ther r grain grain- of good quality fifty vero of size aud nd a little the average in quality while tho the remaining fifteen n w still t reen t-reen and l There Thero werd in all more than 2800 gra grains ns I i sq 5 I |