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Show CORN MUST BE TESTED. ' The Only Method to Be Certain of Germinating Qualities. A good many pcoplo think they can tell when corn will grow, and when It will not, without testing it. Hundreds Hun-dreds of young men from all over Iowa como to tho college at Ames for tho two weeks' short course. Ono year I let each member of a large class tako 40 acres to examine and study for two days and see If he could tell which would grow and which would not. They did not know that I had pet a llttlo trap for them by mixing up good cars' and bad cars and ears ol weak vitality, all of which I had tested test-ed in a germlnator ten days previous ly. When their Judgment of each ear wns compared with my record of Us test it wns Been that thoy had all made mistakes. When wo woro through I asked If there was any ono of them who thought ho could pick out corn that was Bafo to idnnt without testing It, and not n slnglo hand went up over tho nudlonce. You may often tell by examination when a kernel Is dead, but you cannot tell when It Is weak or low In vitnllty without tho germinating ger-minating test. Prof. P. O. Holdcn. |