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w%' ... SELECTING SEED COKN. Results of Experiments Demonstrate: the Value of Seed Testing. Editor Cornty Record:? It is not for sake of notoriety that I again ask space m your columns.; No, sir; for with a school of do or -40 1 pupils, a wife and seven children, : besides a farm, etc., which demand my attention and services, I tell you frankly, I have no time to lose seek- ! notoriety or publicity, even were I so disposed to do. /"' write I listen to the drops; ^Kjpfain as they fall from the eaves to j. N^the ground and 1 think how really j ^^significant one drop appears and i yet each drop represents a component part of the stream which is now . running down the hill near my house; then I consider may not I, though a comparatively small "drop", be f used in the stream of progression by . noti6nly individual labor but also fifcatiD? some of the results of exper- { 7 ? - i , , iment. Fact is, Mr Editor, I think many of us are either too negligent } or too selfish to make known ofttimes the gist of our discoveries. . Can the reason be that we think our ^ editor is unwilling to give space? No! A thousand times no. Then do j we think that others are not suffi. ' , ciently interested to consider our oferiags? Possibly true. Yet we may feel assured that a certain per centage of "Record " readers are interested and will gather some beneficial information. ' But I must cease along this line of thought and get back to the ini- ] tial intention, via., to state partially the result of the seed corn test Wben the corn sprouts in the test ' box had reached a height of from one , to three inches, according to vitality of peed, I raised one end of the box sufficiently to cause a slant, then I r?continued pouring water until the ( dirt was largely washed from the i # roots of the sprouts. i Next I carefully removed each sprout and wrote on a score-curd the 1 condition of each check (there were four Bprouts to each check) acoord' ing to the vitality shown in each i ch^ck,letting 100 per cent represent check in which all four sprouts j showed rigorous roots, stem, ano ^growth. Of 130 ears (each check represented one ear) only 10 showed 100 per cent., 37ears showed 00?95 ? per cent, 47 ears showed 75?89 per cent., 34 ears showed under 75 per some ears going as low as 40 |^per cent. * Now, I shelled from ears showing 90 to 100 per cent, together and classed same as good; I did likewise with ears showing 75 per cent, to 89 per cent., bat classed them assecondarj; I discarded all ears under 75 p per cent, as worthless for planting - seed. With class "good** I planted 7 Uteres from which 1 got an excellent stand, though 1 put only one grain to the hill and covered with horse, using au ordinary board. Had the worms and insects not raged war after the corn was about two or three inches high, there would have been no need to replant. This corn showed steady growth and matured well. I used only a sack of fertilizer to ^ f flannia tit Vin q2_ e&CU uci c a1ju iu i x>v>uu ?oj if iiv wv ' sisted to "break" the corn said he y never saw better average up-hill corn in bie life, and Mr Dennis has felt the pleasant zephyrs of many an , autumn. Bat I mean no reflection ^?on Mr Dennis, for I remember that when I saw him a few months ago ^2 showed but little sign of his age ?sprightly, cheerful and of a good countenance. (A handsome widower). But as to the fields planted from ears as "secondary" quite a number of hills were missing, although I put from ODe to three grains in each hill. But haven't space to relate further as regards these fields, so must con elude by giving result of special test. In a separate field I selected three .< plots, each drawn into three rows of tt^out two acres length. I planted m t No. 1 with seed from a 100 per H /Cent, ear, plot No. 2 from a 75 per cent, ear, and plot No. 3 from a 50 percent, ear. Hlot No. 1 had no missing hills of consequence, No. 2 had considerably more, and No. 3 was badly missing. I gathered the middle row of each plot and measured the com. How from No. 1 yielded 42 quart?, from No. 2 " 36 " from No. 3 " 36 " Let me say here that I made a i' 1 1 '7 Our entire stock of Trimmed H All orders promptly fill ZbnETXT ( ach in a separate box, mal fiistake by replanting tne tnree piors with untested seed, for as plot Xo. 3 was so badly missing the roplant on t must have afforded about equal vitality to that of No. 2. * s At any rate, the test proved about J; six bushels per acre in favor of the i LOO per cent. seed. It cost about ten cents per acre to :est the seed, so I asfc the question, Is an increase of even six bushels per icre worthy of a tri?l in seed-testing? i I expect to test and experiment igain this year, D. V. If I can assist any farmer who is really iuterttted, then command me; otherwise ['11 conclude that this subject is aon-interesting to others. 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