Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — Profit in First-Class Seed Corn. [ARTICLE]

Profit in First-Class Seed Corn.

[National Cron lufwaHt Sank*.] I have been able to raise 30 bushels of choice seed corn on acre seed plot. For this seed I received an average of $350 per bushel, which makes a return of $lO5 for this seed alone, in addition to 40 or -50=odrt bushels left for feeding purposes. I have black loam soil that has always been in the highest state of fertility. I apply a heavy coat of stable manure in the fall plow the field early in the spring, times and harrow until a firm seed bed is obtained. For seed, I used eighteen of the choicest, highest testing seed ears which I could secure. On May 21st I planted, checking corn into hills forty-two inches each way. At this time I drilled in 450 pounds per acre of a high-grade fertilizer. The corn was given the very best of care, and as a result of this intensive cultivation and the balanced plant-food ration, it matured by the 15th of September, at which time I picked the seed corn and put it on drying racks in a heated drying bouse so as to be in first-classed condition for J. Black, Burlington, W:s.