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Show AMOUNT OF SEED CORN TO SELECT Good Rule to Follow Is to Gather as Many Ears as Arc Needed for Planting. (By A. C. ARNY, Assistant Agriculturist. University Farm, St. Paul, Minn.) Whon you got into your own cornfield corn-field you may see so many good planta bearing good oars that you will just fool like keeping a-going. Hope you do, and while you aro selecting good Beed corn fdr yoursolf, select Bomo for your neighbors. They' neod It lo help boost the average yield of corn in this Btate to over forty bushels bush-els per aero. How many rows ha's nn average ear of corn of tho variety which you raiso? How many kernols per row after tip and butt kernels havo boon shelled off? Many hills will ono ear planf., using three kornpls per hill? Ono aero of corn checked threo feet three inches contains 3,240 hllla. If your oar has GOO good kornels it will .plant 200 hills, threo kernols per hill. At that rato it would roqulro about goventeen ears per aero. Remember, howovor, that In selecting select-ing tho corn In ths field you go over It rather hurriedly. When winter comes and you look tho oars over carefully, you will And many that will aot suit you. Of those that do suit, number may not grow strong, unless un-less tho corn Is properly dried and itored. A good rule Is to select twice as many oars from good plants in tho Bold as aro needed to plant tho ro-aylred ro-aylred number ot acres next year. This allows a very cloao selection to bo mado during tho winter. |