The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-07
Talk With Farmers.


nothing about the collie in horses, and
that he had a remedy of his own, and
If 1T was given to the horse the owner
could at once go about his business.
When We We're telling the audience
the best means for preventing the
bOreS in peach trees, we told the au
dience that no matter what proven
tive they used there would now ana
then some bores get in, SO that it is al
ways best to go over the trees in early
summer and fall to cut out any which
may have gotten in. The man with
the secret, at once Informed us that
We knew nothing about it, but that he
had a wash which, if it is applied in
spring, will keep every borer out and
would save all other trouble. By that
time we had tired of the chap and
intimated that he had as well keep his
secrets to himself.
AT Troy, the next day, We had
large and attentive audience. A
young man who has been making
some experiments on one of the test
farms belonging to the State Board of
agriculture, in comparing different va
rietieS of corn and cotton, gave an ac-
count of this work and the striking
differences between the yield of corn
from different varieties on the same
soil and with the same treatment, one
per acre. He brought out the fact,
100, which we have often stated, that
corn brought from far north or south
IF given locality would not do SO
we'll as corn bred in the section where
planted. This was shown by the TACT
that the Leaning corn, which gave the
argeSt yield at the Illinois Station,
vas, in North Carolina, about the least
productive, and Cookies Prolific, va
riety bred in Southern Virginia, led all
sorts in yield. Cookies Prolific is
,Orn which makes ears OF only moder-
lte size, but makes two or more OF
hem on a stalk. and in yield IT great
V exceeded a sort bred in North Caro-
ina known as Halls Strawberry, IN
exceedingly tall growing sort that
bears a single ear on a stalk. Inc
young speakers gave the audience the
usual directions that have so often
oeen published of late, in regard to the
particular shape and style of ear and
Grain to plant, and then told them
now to select in the field and how to
breed corn Then some one asked
Tim whether he would take the lower
II the upper ear on stalk that bore
wo or more. In very wise way this
youngster, who never bred a strain OF
corn in his life, said in a rather supe-
rior manner, PROF. Massey says take
the lower ear, L say take tne upper
and better one" Inasmuch as Prof.
Massey has advised this for a specific
purpose, that of breeding our tall
growing Southern corn to a better
stature, he had to take the young man
down then and there. 1t is wonderful
how much more Il young man knows
the first few years after he gets out of
college, or, rather, thinks he knows,
than he does know when he gets older
end more experienced. But it is Il
great thing to be young and to have
the opportunities for work and the
gaining of experience that young men
now have. If our young friend refer
red to lies, he may after awhile. learn
something himself III regard to plant
breeding and VIII wonder how he
could have undertaken to back the
experience of three years against that
of forty or more-W. S. Massey.
Practical Farmer.