Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — Seed Corn Will Be Tested Free by the High School. [ARTICLE]

Seed Corn Will Be Tested Free by the High School.

Farmers of Jasper county should take note of the fact that last year over 25 per cent of the corn planted in Indiana failed to grow. This caused the farmers a great loss, which could have been very largely avoided if they had used as seed only such corn as had been subjected beforehand to a germinating test and found to have full germinating power. If all of the kernels of an ear will not sprout in a germination test, that ear should not be usM for planting. When such are planted, replanting is usually necessary and if the field is not then replanted there is a loss of that proportion of the. crop that might have been had and also there is a crop of cultivated weeds grown in the vacant hills. In order to aid the farmers about Rensselaer or elsewhere in this problem, the agricultural department of the Rensselaer high school will test all seed corn brought to it, free of charge. The department anxious to do this and is sure that it could aid those wishing their seed corn tested. All corn tested will be ready for return within two weeks after receiving it and each lot will be labeled with the result of t the sprouting, or germinating power of each car.