Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1916 — Corn Seed Tests. [ARTICLE]

Corn Seed Tests.

When 'you find a man in a community who tests his seed corn it is a pifetty safe bet that you have found a man who is a better farmer than the one who trusts to the benevolence of nature. He believes in preparedness, while the other fellow is a pacifist who believes in waiting till the corn doesn’t come up and then tries to get ready when the seed ammunition isn’t available. Hast fall a large part of the corn belt produced soft corn that will not make much of a show in a germination test. It will be good stuff with which to start one of those bumper crops that, gives the farmer all the bumps. The farsighted man will immediately gef busy testing the seed he has saved and cull in g out ea rs that would otherwise mean vacant hills and low yields. A good supply of dead ones and weaklings should go to flic crib. If every corn grower practiced rigid seed selection and testing the price might go down, as some calamity specialists are in the habit of informing its. But that never was a good excuse for cultivating empty hills. It would pay" better to dig bait and go fishing.—Country entleman. ’ /■/