Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 283, 14 October 1916 — Page 32

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 1916

IVAN BECK TEttS HOW TO PLANT SEED CORN

BY IVAN BECK. The early frost this fall has undoubtedly caused some injury to the corn crop, but It Is Impossible to tate how much this Injury amounts to. In one night's time the frost stopped all activities of plant growth; and for this reason much of the corn is likely to be more or leas Immature and may be somewhat loose and chaffy on the cob. Because of this condition is is very important that every corn raiser take unusual precautions in the careful selection of seed this fall. If we wait till next spring to get our seed corn from the crib we will be greatly disappointed. The seed of any plant has In It a very tiny plantlet which is alive though in a dormant or resting stage during an unfavorable season for its growth and development. The seed has also tied up within it the inherited characteristic of producing a plant very similar to the parent plant. Because of this great fact that 'like produces like' it is essentially important that the kind of a stalk on which an ear of corn grows should have due consideration as well as the merits of the ear Itself. Every man in the farming business ought to adopt some definite plan of procedure by which he will improve his corn rather than allow it to 'run out. In selecting seed corn from the stalk one should look for a stalk possessing , the following chraacteristics: The stalk should be rather short and strong, growing under normal conditions of stand. It takes a good stalk to produce a good ear when there are no gaps in the stand near it. It should be healthy and showing no signs of smut or other weaknesses. It should stand ' erect - and have an abundance of leaf development. The ear should be well matured indicated by dry husks. The shank attaching the ear to the stalk should be rather short, but allowing the tip of the ear to turn slightly downward so aa to turn the weather. The ear should be attached slightly below the middle of the stalk. Some desirable characteristics of a good seed ear are : Its circumference should be about three fourths its length. It should be cylindrical or nearly so. The rows of kernels should be from sixteen to twenty-two in number.

straight and fitting rather closely to gether. . The tips and buts should be well covered with regular shaped kernels and the rows persisting to very near the ends. . The indentation in the outer end of the kernels should run squarely across the kernels and should be deep enough to make the ear rather rough but not rough enough to incline the kernels to chaff iness. It is not advisable to select seed corn from the shock because the vitality of the corn. is liable, to be injured by heating. If corn is to be cut and shocked the seed should be picked from the stalk. When the corn is shucked from the stalk it Is an easy matter to select seed by having a box on the side of the wagon . and throw all good ears into it. ; Seed corn should never be left in a pile while green. . It will heat enough in only a few hours to reduce its vitality. It should be stored in sacks or hung up by binder twine, or put on a seed corn tree, any way so the ears do not : tough one another and the air can circulate freely about "each ear. This will allow the corn to dry out rapidly as possible. The vitality of corn Is injured and often killed by freezing weather while it yet contains a considerable amount of moisture. But if it is thoroughly cured and dry it will withstand considerable cold and ever, hard freezes without serious inJury. It does not commonly withstand repeated changes of temperature though without reducing its vitality to a greater or less degree. Hence if seed corn is hung to the rafters it should preferably be one sloping to the north where the sun will have less effect on the temperature.' About three . times as much seed should be collected as will be needed to plant the next crop and this can then be sorted and gone over during the latter part of the winter, culling out all the ears appearing then as undesirable. If one spends in all ten days collecting, storing, selecting, and testing seed corn for a twenty acre field and by so doing can increase the yield by two per acre, which is highly probable, then the increase in yield would repay something over two dollars per day for the time spent. Besides this the quality of the corn is very materially improved.

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PLANS ARE ALTERED WHEN SCHOOLS OPEN

NEW PARIS, Ohio, Oct. 14. The 1916-17 winter term of school for the Jefferson township centralized schools started under different roofs than wa3 the original plan, the new building being in an unfinished condition. The third and fourth grades are being taught in the Whitewater Grange Hall and the remainder of the school in the old school building on East Cherry street. There are 375 pupils enrolled for the term of which over seventy are, in the high school. It requires eleven hacks to transport the children from the country districts and the Board of Education is seriously thinking of making the purchase of another hack, because of the crowded co.4idon of some. .

The drivers are: No. 1, Frank Denny; No. 2, Artie Teaford; No. 3, W. W. Thompson; No. 4, Wm. Brasier; No. 5, J. A. Stagleg; No. 6, Henry Spahr; No. 7, John V. Curry; No. 8, George Gephart; No. 9. Henry Murray; No. 10, Lon Morrison;. No. 11, Robert Roller. Mrs. . Iona - Bowles, who is teacher of music, began her classes Friday, but until a room is prepared, the Domestic Science work taught by Miss Grayce Samuels will be postponed a few days. The following list of teachers have charge of the several grades: Superintendent, F. H. Young; first, Claire Biles; :, second, Morna Newbern; third,-Emma Thompson; fourth, Mary Chenoweth; fifth, Mae Kuth; sixth, Isla Crawford; seventh, Mary O'Dea; , eighth," E. H. Young. Static electricity produced by the feathers of a duster used to clean inCahdescent lamps has been known to break their filaments. ' - v . . , ,

GOOD GLEAN MAN OFFERS TO MARRY WOMAN WITH PAST

CHICAGO. Oct. 14. In-memory of a sister, who ended her life at the age of fourteen because she bad been deceived and betrayed, a farmer near Peace River, Alberta, Canada, is willing to give some woman with a scarlet past a chance to become his wife. He makes his proposition in a letter to one of the officers of the Salvation Army here. The letter says in part: "I want you to find me a young woman from the poor and the unfortunate, who wants to live a Christian life and become the wife of a Christian

man and live th the farm.' Believing that my sister Was' as good "a girl as ever lived, but only did wrong for the man she loved more than her own life, I am sure there are other good girls who have been led to sorrow and ruin in the same way. 'Tf I could find one such I would marry , her for the sake of my dear sister, who might have been alive today if she had had such a chance as this to escape her shame. I will be a faithful husband to such a woman and if she has a child I will love it and bring it up as my own. I will never mention her past."

CHURCH BELLS CALL TO PRAYERS FOR SOLDIERS

LONDON, Oct. 14. Many British towns have just started the practise of having the church bells ring at a certain hour every day to remind the people to pray for the soldiers 'fighting at the front.

REVIEW OF EVENTS ; AT FOUNTAIN CITY

FOUNTAIN CITY, Oct. 12. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fahien and daughter, Alsie and Mrs.' Louis Fahien called on Harry Nelman and family, of Richmond, Sunday afternoon. ....Mr. and Mrs. Lum Foreman had as their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Little of Lynn, and Mr. and Mrs. Osterman of Castlne, Ohio Miss Blanche Williams spent Sunday with Misses Jessie and Bessie Foreman. .. .Mr. and Mrs. Ol Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith motored to Indianapolis Monday Mr. John Shaw of Muncie, Indiana, ' spent Sunday with W. B. Williams and family. Have Guests - John Lashley and family of Centerville, spent Sunday with John Keever.

..". .Ed Dalbey and wife had as their guests Sunday, "Abner Dalbey and family of Brookville, Indiana. . . .Paul Edgerton and wife of Richmond,' visited his brother, Merrel Edgerton and family...; Mr. and Mrs. Ol Clark had as their guests Sunday, their son Roy and family Orla Showalter, wife and little son spent Sunday, with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Showalter. -Visit Parents Harry Townsend, wife and daughter Reba of Richmond, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Townsend Alta Elleman and family. Will Thornton and family, and Ann Eliza Thornton went to Portland, Indiana, to visit Mrs. Martha B. Thornton Sunday. ...Mrs. Steel, Winchester, called on Mrs. L. H. Townsend Sunday afternoon.

The reach of the inner surfaces of the teeth as well as the outside is the aim of a double-ended toothbrush invented by. a Memphis dentist.

BRITISH ARMY REFUSES GIANT

LONDON, Oct 14. If you wer eight feet two and a half inches high, weighed 280 pounds, and could throw two men around don't you think th army would be glad to have you? So thought a young Wiltshire Innkeeper with those specifications. But he thought wrong. . . . The ordinary Tommy's equipment wouldn't fit him. He would have "to have everything made to order. His boots are size 22. He can't get Into an ordinary railroad car seat and baa to travel with the baggage. So the military authorities, after wrestling with the problem, have de-j elded to let the giant keep on tending' his inn. He is twenty-two. years old and still growing. ' ' j

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FMMEMCE AM TOUT HOT.. BLAST J. B. HOWARD, Inventor of the Florence and Searchlight, will demonstrate these wonderful stoves during the Exposition In BOOTH NO. 3. The J. B. Howard Combustion Device, which is embodied in the Hot Blast Air Tight Florence, Is the reason why the Florence is the only absolute smoke consuming device that has ever been constructed In the history of the burning of bituminous coal.

ARE YOU GOING TO BUY A HARD COAL BASE BURNER OR A SOFT COAL STOVE? If so, come and see these two wonderful stoves before you buy. Remember, it will cost you nothing to look. You can be your own Judge. Remember, it does not only mean the cutting of your coal bill in two in heating your entire house (as many as eight rooms) when the weather is zero or twenty below, but it means a warm house, warm floors and the comfort that every home should have in the winter season, besides the saving of doctor's bills and other worries and expenses that are incurred by irregular heat and a cold house when you get up in the morning. : "I WILL GIVE $5,000.00 TO ANY STOVE MANUFACTURER OR DEALER who will produce a base burner or a soft coal stove outside the construction of the Searchlight or Florence that will burn all the ingredients of anthracite coal absolutely, or all the Ingredients of soft coal absolutely, or will heat the same amount of space with the same amount of fuel as the Searchlight or Florence." Signed, J. B. HOWARD. THE ABOVE OFFER HOLDS GOOD UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1917 The above $5,000.00 offer has been made for the past twelve years every place where either the Searchlight or the Florence has been exhibited. It stands to reason that if any dealer or stove manufacturer could produce a stove that would do the work that the Searchlight or the Florence will do, they would not only have claimed the $5,000.00 but would have gotten the benefit of letting the people know what great stoves they have.

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