Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1915 — POOR SEED EXPENSIVE. [ARTICLE]

POOR SEED EXPENSIVE.

w. A. Posey, agent Clay county, Iowa: “Farmers who tested their seed corn found in numerous instance* that com which they thought good for proved to be only 90 per cent strong It pays to test every ear. By planting a single spoiled ear, the fanner loses 200 hills of corn. The crop from these tills would pay amply for, the trouble of testing all the seed , used.” By planting seed that is only 90 per cent .strong, there Is a" 10 per cent loss tn the crop, equivalent to ten' acres out of a 100-acre field. The farmer whc eliminates this loss could turn these ten acres into pasture and obtain as large a crop, with nine-tenths the work, from the remaintag 90 acres.