Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1915 — TESTS AU. CORN. [ARTICLE]

TESTS AU. CORN.

H. L Harter, superintendent of Hen* nepin county (Minn.) schools, has started a competitive plan whereby four thousand farmers are to select seed and properly cultivate twenty* five acres of com with a view of raising the county average ten bushels. His circular states that this would increase the county com yield 1,000,000 bushels, which at 50c a bushel, would be a gain of $500,000 to the farmers of the county. He has made arrangements with the Northwestern National bank to furnish the grain exchange rag dolls, which have been sent to all the schools in his county. He is also distil buting government bulletins to the schools. He has asked the teachers to take up the subject of germination; and while waiting for germination to take place, to ask the pupils to find out how far apart the rows of com are planted, the distance between each hill, the number of stalks and ears to the hill, hills to the acre, average weight per ear, number of bushels to the acre, market value, cost of prep station of the soil, seed, planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing etc, and net profits per acre. He winds up by saying: "Be enthus U stic and you will bo successful.”