Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1915 — POOR SEED EXPENSIVE.) [ARTICLE]

POOR SEED EXPENSIVE.)

W. A. Posey, agent Clay county, Iowa: “Farthers who tested their seed corn found in numerous Instances that corn 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 farmer loses 200 hills of com. 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 in the crop, equivalent to ten aOres 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 ths from the remaining 90 acres.