Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1918 — SEED SURVEY SHOWS INDIANA HAS ENOUGH [ARTICLE]

SEED SURVEY SHOWS INDIANA HAS ENOUGH

Indiana will be able to supply the seed corn needs of all farmers within the state, indicate reports received on the seed stocks and labor survey, which is well underway or complete in every county. This announcement was made today by C. Henry, state leader in charge of the work. Actual figures cannot} be obtained for several days, until word is in from every county. However, many counties are almost without seed corn and they will have to be supplied by those which have a surplus. The value of the survey will be revealed as the exchange system, extending from the United States Department of. Agriculture, through Purdue University to every county in the state, is established. As soon as all reports are in arrangement will be made to shift the seed at once. Advices of men who have been working in the state under the direction of the extension department of Purdue, locating quantities of corn suitable for seed, indicate there is enough corn left from the 1916 crop to plant half of the acreage this year. C. E. Taylor, one of the field men and an expert seedsman, who has been in every section of the state the last two or three weeks, estimated that enough corn which will phow a germination test of 90 to 100 per,cent is on hand to plant a tenth of the crop thirf spring. Seed for the remaining forty per cent of the acreage will have to he obtained by individual ear test of the corn that has been saved by farmers throughout the state. A large amount of this will show'so per cent germination, some of it higher and some lower. The seed that will grow must be chosen from this only after the test has been made. This method is necessary to insure a good Stand of com this coming season when a bumper crop is more necessary than ever.