| Show all LG cam YOU T te I 1 01 s 1 if jaca 11 71 00 1 V ajosa f AJ A TUE THE farmers of this c I 1 kiy ty wont want to profit by the experience per ence of recent earo acara vh when tile iliev were several B times c caught without or home grown sted laed resulting in poor crops up aly will nt at once turn I 1 rn their attention to the selle bele it ion of pilots of good seed tor for their wn use as well ill is to sall ell to their ri lahb if next vears year s corn crop should be a total or partial failure it not be pov possible sIble to harvest any gold nod seed at nil all from it ft in that event tills his years seed lead if property properly chosen and let ell cared red for far during tho the w inter months at will not at only be good food seed for 1120 but better seed iced in 1921 1021 than iro be ported porte seed will be in 1915 in the tart northern tarther ber corn corm tell belt most of the ear corn failed to mature we had bad little good home grown seed for th the e 1918 1916 planting planting this should hive blia t taught u gb us a b lesbon so we should have saved mv ed a two years su supply ap pp 1 v for far seed in 1016 1916 but bar we in 1 in 1917 the corn sanin failed to mature toad aad we no were again candit without seed beed tile the result ans so the farmer banners of the united totes lost millions of dollars dollar because of the reduced celd 1 in 1018 1918 the jim ib 1919 coin crop promises to be 1 one I of if tile the largest a on record old and few farm pm will ties have nor axe excuse 1 a for not saving an abundance of seed led to nave v plenty lont of good gold seed d Is al nays aty rood gold business if our aarbu surplus Is not needed for seed it vill ft not be wasted it always will hae base a mm hot anim or it may be fed to stock it if it should be needed for seed it will lie he north many times it its market value salue so aa orth grall grain tte ale in an import potatoes oats at or wheat but we a cannot import seed loll corn and it eject pelt 1 to I got get S as load results wI would ns as we would get from corn grown in the immediate neighborhood the importance of testing seed led earn before planting la IS now new generally re lecog 9 balfore it and practiced b bv far carmera rare where h r e but all the testing in the e world orld will pi avail nothing unless good seed 1 Is so selected after horest holiest old and then prop acted or erly told stored led end cared red for until lost lest ing hip time comes paradoxical as aa it may seem the best looking ears can win not always lives anne a to be the best for seed aeed As a mat ter of tact full one national authority au thorit on an the he subject states that he has fro fre planted seed fr from blue ribbon n ears ears eari judged accord according in g to tile the score re card and seemingly pasi ph perfect mi and d failed to g get t as aa good ad re r falls old sulta so its from them he did from ears a which would never win min a prize on ac count of their ob shape the trouble la Is that these fine looking ears do not ive nota ellve any ny line on their yielding power until ill a fter after th chev have bar been tested C conse c e eldr if a farmer selene selects ears bated based ol 01 solely al y on their appearance he be might get nothing thing but poor reproducers and it we would at it then be too lute late to save otlo ears tor for planting moreover the big ears eara which aich it P la lie human nature are tor far the former to daae believing they cloy should hould be best for seed are ale more a often ate the than not net abnormal ears cars due to late maturing or to some same defect which nature naters has haa endeavored to c cor r met during tile the period or of gon glowing ing by tile the ule ue of it abnormal methods allied A As a gone general thing the offspring of such on an ear Is weak leak A on medium in shied me ear say bay ten tell and it a half or eleven inches long with ft a circumference cum ference of approximately seven inches Is about right st straight t rows indicate careful selection I 1 e tie and ad breeding 1 in the seed which produced ed the ear nod and tor for tills this reason ere are desirable on tile the other hand some varieties of ca corn r is n are kil known by their characteristically crooked rows mile and shi sh I not DOC be dis criminated against A an all average ear of tile the size stated will weigh about 14 ounces when it its moisture content Is ri 15 per cent and it will III shrink in length from one to two inches he during tile the process of drying of course it will it also 1 adir shrink ik 1 in circumference which Is 11 something that la Is not generally ob served sered bv emr farmers c before r the he selected corn is finally stored stolid it roust must be dried out so that its amli moisture mr content contact will fall as low ns as 15 per cent if possible under such cn cas dillons rich even a very hard freeze will ill have base little or no effect on tile the vitality itai ltv of 2 the seed e if the drying all out process pro a can be carried d on in a room where i re tl it are ia stove heat beat or in another other eon room near enough to get the heat beat from a near stove so much tile the better one of the best beet and simplest reeth ads of storing seed corn Is to tie he it up with bluder binder twine each string coo con wining from 12 to 15 ears chew ahe strings may be suspended from wires strung strong in the here barn or other places pieces where the corn Is to be kept and it Is important that the individual ears should bould not lot touch earl each other corn that 1 Is to be told tor far seed should never be piled up tile the bet best pi ice to store man Is some smile place in where it la Is arv dr and where there is room for the circulation n of air bet between the ahe ears or 1 row a 1 if f a room in or attic in the farmhouse can a he be utilized storing for far this I 1 pulp purpose it hes an I 1 ideal storing place but bar if nor out building rou must be used rare care should be taken that the spot put where the corn la Is to lo be hung Is a as free from dampness at id all times as possible th tha corn com crop of 1018 1918 on acres s amounted to 2 W dimsh acre e eli w worth oran the lie re p port rt of the he department of agrie agriculture rift re gives the acreage of 1919 as 05 the yield 2 bushels and ad the value salue LO the average tor for the years yeam 1913 17 Is 14 to as fol follows lows acreage yield 2 th bushels buh hels value |
