Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1915 — TESTS ALL CORN. [ARTICLE]

TESTS ALL CORN.

H. L Harter, superintendent of Her> nepin county (Minn.) schools, has started a competitive plan whereby four thousand farmers are to select seed and properly cultivate twentyfive acres of corn with a view of raising the county average ten bushels. His circular states that this would increase the county corn yield 1,009,000 bushels, which at 50c a bushel, would be a gain of 3500,000 to the farmers of the county. He has made arrangements with tLe 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 tie hill, hills to the acre, average weight per ear, number of bushels tc the acre, market value, cost of preparation of the soil, seed, planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing etc, and net profits per acre. He winds up by saying: “Be enthua iastic and you will be successful.*’