Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

- I. ■ *r>, • • (l r , , T , ~• , Copyright Hart ScUßner&Man. i his picture — Fisherman s Luck,” it's called —is the cover of the Hart Schaffner & Marx Spring Style Book The Style IBook for Spring You ought to have one; it’s just about as attractive and interesting a book as you’ve ever seen. You’ll like the pictures—they’re better than ever in this issue. They’re really wonderful. It’s a very practical book besides; shows you what’s going to be right this Spring and Summer; where to wear it, and how; clothes economy and real values; lots of other things you ought to know. The G. E. Murray Co. Rensselaer, = Indiana

SHOULD TEST SEED CORN Assistant Secretary Yrooman Declares This to Be Necessary Pecaution This Year. Washington, D. C., March 23. — Farmers who take the advice of Carl \ roonian, the assistant secretary of the United States department of agriculture, will test every ear of corn this year before they plant it. The seed corn situation, Mr. Vrooman says, is probably more serious now than it has been for years. On account of the late, cold Season and the heavy frosts in the early part of last October, very little corn, especially in the. northern half of the corn belt, ripened naturally and at the time of the first hard frosts much of it still contained a large amount of moisture. “Testing seed corn is always a wise precaution,” said Mr. Yrooman, “but this year il_js a necessary one. Every Jarmer should test his seed this spring by the individual ear test. No matter how much confidence you have in the man you buy seed from, make a test and know for yourself that the seed is good. If the seed is not good, you can get 1 * some other that is. “A number of seed men who have well constructed seed houses report that they find the early picked seed tests very satisfactorily, but the seed picked later, even if properly dried, is very unsatisfactory. One test in Northeastern Nebraska showed 90 per cent of the early field-picked seed to be good while only 68 per cent of the crib-selected seed germinated. In many sections of Northern lowa and Illinois the percentage of good seed is much lower, even when the seed was picked before frost and properly dried, while seed picked from the wagon at husking time, or from the crib is practically worthless as seed. One reason for this is that many farmers in this section are raising corn of a very large variety which requires a full growing season, and this- corn did not ripen before the early frosts.