Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1879 — Profit by Experience [ARTICLE]

Profit by Experience

Farmers will remember the difficulty they had last spring in securing good seed corn, many having to plant two and three times before they had a “good stand.’’ The result is that a great deal of corn throughout, the whole county was not sufficiently advanced when the frost came, and no doubt there will be much unmerchantable corn harvested this year. The question now is, will profit by the experience bought at such great cost? We urge upon to go through their fields early, select the ripest ears of corn, hang them in some dry, cool place, until they are thoroughly dried. If this is done there can be no danger but the seed will germinate.—[Fowler Era,