Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1873 — Selecting Corn for Seed. [ARTICLE]

Selecting Corn for Seed.

Youn older readers will remember the cold summer of 1816, when but very little corn got. ripe in the New England States. A year or two afterward my. father obtained a very small kind of eightrowed corn that was recommended as sure to ripen. Ido not know what was its proper name,-but remember it was called in this vicinity “tucked corn.’’ According to the best of my recollection the ears would average about six inches in length. It ripened early. Heseleeted for seed the largest ears; and the result was, the ears continually increased in size and length, and from eight rows he got ten rows, then twelve, then fourteen, and at last there began to be a few ears with sixteen rows. But as it gained in size it was later in ripening, and in fifteen or twenty years we had another short summer and abundance of “pig corn.” . - , The next spring I was told that a tavern keeper at Haverhill, this State, raised the season before a small kind of Canada corn that got thoroughly ripe before the frost, and was advised to try it. I have planted this corn ever since; that is, some thirty-five or forty years. I have taken care, however, to avoid my father’s mistake, and have greatly increased the size of the ears without materially lengthening the period of growth. For the first few years I picked the earliest ears for seed, taking them before cutting the corn. But the growth, although larger than at first, was too small, and it ripened so early I concluded to profit by my father’s experience, and obtained a larger kind without making it much less. Any farmer, if he is a keen observer, will-have noticed that the large and late ears always have a large cob, which is indicated by a large stem when broken off at husking. For the purpose of increasing the size, I stopped picking my seed in the field, and selected the largest ears that had a-small stem. - If I found a large ear with a small stem, and especially if the stem was wilted and tough to break, whieh indicated early maturing, I saved it for seed. In this way I soon perceived an increase of size, and fearing that in escaping Scylla T should run on Charybdis, as my father did, 1 commenced picking my seed in the field. But noticing that my corn continued to ripen considerably earlier than my neighbors’, I ventured to try the experiment of making it still larger. Consequently, for a few years past’, I have selected seed at husking, and saved for seed handsome ears, having ten or twelve tows, with the indispensable small stems. At first I found but few ears of this kind, but they have become so numerous that this year I have saved only twelve-rowed ears, and probably shall not venture to go beyond this,-al-though I find now- and then an ear with fourteen, and, this year, with sixteen rows. . This shows, what can be dope by select; ing seed corn. I have no doubt but any other grain .pan be improved in the same way—

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