| Show WARNS FARMERS TO TEST SEED CORN 41 F farmers amers who take the advice of carl vrooman the assistant secretary of the united states department of agriculture will vi test every oar car of corn this year before they plant it the seed corn situation mr vrooman Vroom says i is 3 probably more serious j now than it has been for years on account of the late cold sea I 1 son and the heavy frosts in the early part of last october very little corn especially in the noth I 1 ern half of the corn belt ripened ne naturally atu rally and at the time of thel the first hard frosts much of it still contained a large amount of afi moisture testing seed corn is always a wise precaution said mr vrooman but this year it is a I 1 j necess necessary lary ppe every farmer fanner should test ats seed this spring by the individual ear test no matter how much confidence you have in the man you buy seed from make a test and know for yourself that the seed is good if the seed is not good you can get some other that is A number of seed men who have well constructed seed hous es report poll that they find the early picked k ed seed ed tests very satisfactory but the seed picked laler even if properly dried is very unsatisfactory one test teat in northeastern nebraska showed 80 per cent of the early field picked seed to be good while only 68 per cent of the crib select ed seed germinated in many sections of northern iowa and illinois the percentage of good seed is much lower even when the seed was picked before frost and properly dried elul seed picked from the wagon at husking time J or from the crib is cacti tactically cally worthless as seed one reason for this is that many farmers in this section are raising corn of a very large variety which requires require s a f full ull growing sea son and this corn com did not ripen before the early frosts under these circumstances testing each ear is simply good insurance one ear of corn will produce e about five bushels if all praga th the grains ins grow with corn at 60 cents a bushel planting a dead ear or an ear that will produce only weak unproductive stalks means a loss of 3 if you catch only one bad ear your testing has paid you a good days day s wages if you catch i the average number youve saved a weeks ariy in an afternoon |
