Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — Difference iu Corn. [ARTICLE]

Difference iu Corn.

Kansas Fanner, Any party noticing the variety of oom coming to market will often see loads of oom with the kernels not over one-fourth of an inch in length, cob large and heavy. Seventy pounds of such corn in the ear would notrmake over 46 or 50 pounds of shelled corn, while the best variety of deep-grain com will yield from 50 to 60 pounds of shelled corn from 70 pounds in the ear. The lose in a few bushels is but small; but take a crop of 80 acres, averaging 46 bushels to the acre, and a gain of 6 pounds per bushel would make over 80 bushels of the shelled oom in favor of the good seed. Thus if the best seed cost 810 more than the poor seed it would pay to get the best