Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1917 — A Well Spent Day. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Well Spent Day.

Everyone is busy. Crops are to be harvested, silos must be filled, livestock must be fed and preparations made for the winter. In the midst of all the things to be done, many farmers hesitate to take a day to pick their seed corn for the 1918 crop. Seed corn day may be made the most profitable one in the whole year. Fields planted with early Eicked seed will average 20 per cent etter stand than that planted with that picked at husking time or later Standing corn has been selling this fall at from S4O to $75 per acre. Twenty per cent of S4O is SB, If a farmer picks only enough seed for

twenty acres a day he is well repaid for his time. In picking seed this fall we must keep in mind first of all early maturity. A type of corn that will not ripen has no place on any farm and to be sure of maturity a smaller type must be selected. Ears which have developed in full competition with other stalks in the same hill are to be preferred to those which have grown alone. Short thick stalks are to be preferred to tall, slender ones. Take time to pick your seed corn early this fall and next year you will have the funds to employ help to assist with your rush work. A day in the corn field now is worth a dozen later. \ : J

STEWART LEAMING.