Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — INSURE YOUR CORN [ARTICLE]

INSURE YOUR CORN

Don’t Gamble With Your Corn Crop. Test Every Ear Before Planting. Every Weak or Dead Ear Means Dollars Less at Harvest, {Mltltaal Cr»» Sertrle*.] It Is a known fact that the simple little act of testing all seed corn before planting will add many bushels to the corh crbp and will pay the farmer about five times as much per hour for bls labor as will any other farm labor. There is pothihg hard about it, all tnethdds of testing steed corn are easy and inexpensive, You can test the kernels in blotters or "rag-doll” testers at home, making them yourself, or you can invest in, a commercial tester that will last for years. Your agricultural college, county agent, or the U. S. ‘ Department of Agriculture, at V. • .11 be glad to give you ■full particulars. Seed te.-ting will stop one of these leaks in farm practice that change gain Into Lx - Figure out for yourself how* many hills the six or seven huhdred kernels of com from a dead or weak ear will plant, and figure out how your corn, yield will drop if two or three, or a dozen, or maybe fifty such ears should get planted.