Show SEED BE DRIED interesting and instructive data regarding storage corn treated with artificial heat in well ventilated rooms gave highest percentage of germination in experiment some data regarding storage germ and resulting stand ot several farmers corn scattered widely over the central section of the country may prove helpful to our readers the fall ot the beginning of the tests was ideal in regard to ripening and curing seed corn aba average germ ot the corn secured then was 76 4 per cent it ranged from 93 per cent tor kiln dried corn to 38 per cent for corn taken from cribs the following summer the section suffered a severe drouth with an early frost much of the crib corn mildewed mil dewed the effect on subsequent germination was very marked the li tor the next spring being only ta 5 per cent the lowest germination 1 per cent was that of corn in the shock during the winter corn cured in well ventilated garrets or rooms made a good average and corn fire dried germinated 90 per cent A study of the records of many tests shows that seed corn dried with artl heat in well ventilated rooms during the first two or three weeks after picking gave the highest germ an average ot per cent for the two years next to this Is corn cured in furnace rooms alti open windows where the heat was applied immediately after bringing the corn from the field well ventilated rooms A method of curing seed corn which Is too commonly practiced the seed thus dried gives less than half the since its vitality Is injured by undue exposure with more than one window gave germination of 86 5 per cent corn cured under porches protected from balna gave ac per cent corn in barns tool houses etc 69 per cent germination of corn kept in granaries and on windmills gave only sa 5 and 34 per cent respectively in this study of seed curing much corn which was left lying la piles or standing in sacks for even a short i time after busking was completely destroyed the only sate way ot curing seed corn is therefore to place I 1 the corn immediately after picking in a well ventilated room and apply stove or other artificial heat for from one to three weeks |