Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1914 — Selecting Seed Corn. [ARTICLE]

Selecting Seed Corn.

The proper time in which to select seeds is late in the fall or winter. The reason for requiring this portion of the year for so doing is because there is then no hYirry, and the work can be done better. The common practice of laying the seed corn aside to remain until spring has done great damage to the corn crop, as very often the excess of imperfect grains is such as to cause a failure of germination over the whole field. Every ear of corn should be examined and the inferior grain shelled off. Vegetable seeds also require examination, for insects, dampness and other causes interfere with their safe-keeping. Of course, every farmer is supposed to be careful, with his seeds, but very few farmers know the condition of their seeds until the time comes wlhen they are required for planting, and then the farmers are too much hurried to do anything with them. •