Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — Select 1918 Seed Corn Before A Hard Freeze Comes. [ARTICLE]

Select 1918 Seed Corn Before A Hard Freeze Comes.

One million bushels of high class seed corn are to be selected from Indiana fields October 22-26 if the program of the Indiana committee on food production and conservation is carried out. Indiana farmers will plant approximately six million acres of corn in 1918. A bushel of seed is required for each six acres to be planted. G. I. Christie, state food director, states that if all the seed for the 1918 crops could be selected from the field before time - of heavy freezes, and properly stored, the yield next year would be easily increased.thirty million bushels.