Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-30 | Page 4 | A Utah Corn Story

A UTAH CORN STORY. In a recent Issue The Inter-Mountnln Vurmt r und Hnnchman spoke Incidentally Incident-ally of the success attending Mr James Ilarker 1 efforts In eorn-grovvlnj nt North Ogden Utah It was then stnted tint Mr. Darker bad frequently Inrvested ns high ns scvont)-tlvc bush-ela bush-ela of torn to the a re Tho figures were given with tho editor's Inblttnl tegird for truth, and jet some slight fear thit rnnny readers might take the stutcment "with a grain of salt" It l therefore, with pleasure that we now say even greater things of Mr Ilarkir s corn experience While ot the Ogden fnlr last week the writer men-tloned men-tloned the matter of corn )leld to Mr. Barker, who said 'Yes, )eu were safe In saying seventy-five bushels to the ncre, for I hnve huske-I and measured a hundred bushels per ncre more than one veur This Mason I have a better erop than usuil, and the stalks nre so tall that 1 can barely touch the tossel of the highest when I bold up a long-handled long-handled boo. I cut the corn while It Is )ct green enough to make gool fodder, nnd thus get a lot of good from my corn Uist winter I cnrrled through twelve head of cattle and four horsei In good shapo on the corn nnd fodder from tluee nnd one-half acres of land I started In with tho old-fashioned flint corn that wna thought to be the only corn that would m iture In Utah forty ears ago. I did not like the flint for genersl purposes so I concluded to do n little corn-breeding nn my own hook Accordingly, 1 got some of the "back Hast' dent mm mil mixed the seed with tho flint. Ily carefully selecting the earliest ot the kernels that showed signs of mixture, I have succeeded In getting a hnrd dent corn that produces large stalks und long ears with n deep kernel, and this, with quirk mHurlng Is all that may be desired ln corn. There Is no name for the variety I grow, but people come fiom miles away to get the seed nnd many call the corn ' Barker's Bar-ker's Hist." Now, there Is nn Inter-Mountain rarnier nnd rtnnchtmn corn story nnd "wo have the prpers for It," since Mr Ilarktr'n word la ns good ns his bond ACilt.. HTAOlNx p-