Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-01-21

the police by the institution-as in all
cases where there is any doubt about the
applicant-but all to no avail.
The Next Corn Crop-Saying Seed.
THE present and prospective high
price of corn will undoubtedly stimulate
the planting of increased acres of this
important grain next spring, and if the
season be propitious the West may again
realize an extraordinary crop, perhaps
equaling those of 1912. There is, how
ever, no reason to think that the crop of
1875 can, in any event, become so low
in price as to be unremunerative to the
producer, as was that Of 1872; for the
reason that the country will be entirely
drained of corn before the new crop
comes in, SO that it will require fully one
half an ordinary crop to make good the
quantity usually carried by farmers and
buyers for consumption from one year to
| another.
Even if the price should be compare
lively low, there is no grain SO easily or
so cheaply kept, in suitable cribs, nor
one where the chances of loss are so
light Hence it will always pay to keep
corn when the price is below the rate of
production; for it has never been known
| in the history of the West when this
| grain did not reach paying price to the
producer within three years from the
| fha I'M hot
could not be profltably sold.
Those who took the advice given by
the Western Rural two years ago to crib
and hold corn have since had reason to
congratulate themselves. Many have
realized handsomely. One instance we
| could name in Illinois, where the surplus
crop held, amounting to $4,000 bushels,
was sold in Baltimore within few cents
| of 81 90 per bushel, under a special con-
tract; an integer in which was exceed
ing low freights on the large amounC
shipped.
One of the difficulties connected with
the holding of any farm product for a
higher market is that in order to do SO I'M
derstandingly one must not only keep
himself posted as to the probable as well
as the actual productions Of the country,
but also the holder must be informed
upon the law of supply and demand, so
that advantage may be taken of the mar
ket just at the right time.
This rule will not only apply to corn
| but also to all other productions Of the
farm. tits the comprehensive study and
| the perfect understanding Of finance that
enables the capitalist to operate and win !;
the lack of it or a nOn-appreciati0n Of
the situation that causes him to fail.
| This may be regarded as a DEPRESSION
from the subject, but it is more closely
connected with it than many will sup
pose, for any farmer is and must neces-
sarily be holder Of products fo- rise
| in price, else he is at the mercy of the
buyer.
| If our proposition be true, that there
will be large areas of corn planted next
| spring; and if the opinion which we
now express, that next season will be
favorable one for corn, and which is
founded upon the fact that we have had
| two Indifferent seasons, then, in Consid
Grafton of the fact that there will be but
little surplus to carry the farmers over
until the new crop is ripe, it will be the
true policy for every planter to force
certain portion of the next crop forward
as fast as possible. To this end it will
! be necessary that the best land be Sc
| lected. If fall plowed, so much the bet
| ter; for it may often be prepared and
| planted in favorable time, and which
subsequent bad weather might prevent
| if the land had to be plOWed in the
spring. For all farmers know that early
| planted corn often comes up and does
well, when later paintings fail. Now
this early-planted corn will be ripe and
available for feeding purposes long be-
| fore the general crop, and thus enable
the farmer to sell an equal quantity of
cid corn early next fall, which he must
otherwise reserve to feed.
Of the first Importance in this connec-
ton is that the seed, not only for the
early planting, but also for the whole
crop, shall be of the strongest vitality.
To insure this it is necessary that it has
not been frozen until it is fully hard and
dry; it is better that it be not frozen at
all, and that it be not placed in a
compact pile where it will be
| likely to sweat and absorb moist
ure and then freeze. If these condi-
lions have been secured, the seed
being perfectly ripe, every grain should,
under acknowledgements circum-
stances, grow 1t is we'll known that the
Indians have but little difficulty in the
termination of their seed corr. Their
plan for saving it is to hang the ears by
the husks until thoroughly dry, often in
the smoke of their lodges; then just be-
fore the freezing up of the soil it is
| buried in shallow holes in the ground,
protected with husks and stalks, whence
it comes out in the spring in the best
! possible condition. Their more civilized
successors may take lesson from these
| children of the forest and prairie, for