Show seed worry borr y over ove r outlook for corn damage from freezing still in doubt chinch bug T threat seen supplied by the college 0 of agriculture university of illinois illinoi Ill inoH service threats of a serious seed corn situation brought on by record freezes dominate the outlook situa situation 11 on for forward to the corn as farmers look planting season earlier in the season before the record winter had taken its toll in seed a sli slightly atly increased acreage of corn was in prospect for the country given normal weather conditions it in ithe the spring liow much the seed corn situation ULL in some st states ates will alter this prospect Is not dot known likewise the full extent ot of the chinch bug threat cannot be measured until a more accurate checkup check up can be made of what the record winter has done to these pests one of the relatively new outlets for corn as farmers plan their 1938 1936 Is the distilled spirits industry which used more than OW bushels or about tour four fifths of 1 per cent of the crop in 1934 35 and prom aises some additional although not large increase in 1936 this years corn crop will follow a domestic harvest of bushels in n 1935 which was about 86 per cent of the 1928 32 average 0 the increase of 80 over 1934 production was partly the result of an increase but more so of better acre yields last year illinois increased its corn acrea acreage e over that in 1934 by about Vs per cent but the 1935 1933 acreage was still 17 per cent less than the 1928 32 average 0 the 1935 production of corn in ill illinois I 1 was bushels more than the low harvest of 1934 but more than bushels less than the 1928 32 five year average ft weighing heavily I 1 in n advance plans for the years corn crop is the fact that feed supplies and the number of farm animals are now in the best balance in several years with no more live stock than there are now low and with normal yields from an acreage of corn as lar large ge as last years there might easily b be e a su surplus oplus of corn and the danger of low prices plans for this years corn crop are affected somewhat by the fact that although the quality of the 1935 harvest was generally goof good the crop was poor in some sections of the country soft corn must necessarily be utilized for feed or otherwise consumed before warm q spring weather furthermore it must be fed more liberally than sound corn to produce tile same result |