Show DAND iI SEED CORN TESTER Plan of Device Which Can Be Made at Home The accompanying cut shows a ear crate for storing seed corn and a tray for testing it The crate should be beabout beabout bebout about bout 24 Inches square depending upon the size of ot the ears The ends should be of one by six Inch boards and the sides one by four inch so as to give good ventilation It should be divided into squares by stretching wire across the top each way These crates are handy to handle and made an Ideal storage Letter the rows on the 0 2 n t 0 of 4 n 01 Ol A 0 C 0 D 0 a F G 0 M H I J J Plan of Arranging Kernels side and number those on the end so that each square will take a anum number number num num- ber and a letter To make a testing tray take a pane of ot glass or board and cut a piece of or thick cloth the same size laying It on the glass Wrap with colored string spacing so as to divide the tray into squares numbering and lettering to correspond with the crate To test the seed take the tray to the crate and beginning at A l take six grains from different parts of or the ear and place them in the tray on the corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding square Great care should be taken that the grains are kept separate sep sep- arate When the tray has been filled a 1 i 3 F 1 h d I Ear Arl Arrangement In Testers Tester's Order cover carefully with cotton batting and wet wet it thoroughly Where enough crates are provided for all aU the seed corn explains E. E B. B Gibbs in Twentieth Century Farmer Farmed an equal number of trays may be arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged so that all of the seed may be tested at one time and under the same conditions The seed should be kept as near the temperature of the ground In which the crop Is to be planted as possible Where it is desired to plant the seed in soil soU a a. wooden crate can be made of thin lumber and filled level with wit soil and spaced off with the cord the same as the glass tray All ears should be discarded that do donot donot donot not give six good sprouts under fair conditions but if It by testing you find finda a dozen bad ears it will be the best paying trouble you have had had for some sometime somei sometime i time besides you can do the the testing at odd times and jt Is worth more than the cost Just to know that you have started the years year's work right and you youcan youcan youcan can depend upon the seed when the time comes to plant If It you cannot figure out how It Is going to pay go goon goon goon on and test and the extra corn In the I crib next fall fall will show for Itself Another Another Another An An- other ye year r save your corn from the field before frost fros and store it In the crates |