Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-01-27

"eaenef nc on TIE open prairie5 20 get
our young kids.
Every farmer and stockman should
write the Agricultural Department
for their free bulletins, Nos. 81 and
137, on the Angora Goat and the
Angora Goat Industry. The Angors
goat show at st. Louis was q great
show, and more people visited the
goat barns than any other stock
barns at the chow. 1t was great
advertisement for the industry, and
the little silver fieeced animal made
thousands of fast friends from all
over the world. That magnificent
Old buck, Kingston Lad, whose mo-
hair sold for four dollars and fifty
cents per pound, was there in all bis
glory. He sheared 1S pounds at
$450, making his fleece bring at one
sheariug $S1. All Virginia farmers
should get few of these little ami
mails as experiments, and just give
them q show, and they will prove
what they can do, will do, and are
doing every day for their owners, in
cleaning out brush land and putting
money into the pockets Of their
owners faster than any stock on earth
can do it. You don't have to fatten
them on corn to send to market, they
fatten themselves on brush and the
waste of the farm. You don't have
to SOW grass for them to Craze, the
brush is their hearts desire, and they
live better, thrive better, and pick
the leaves of and turn it into gold
better, on brush than any grass on
earth. IL you can't afford to buy
thoroughbred Angoras, buy common
does and a good Angora buck and
grade up by degrees.-M. S. Valen-
tine, in Southern Planter.
HOW TO SAVE SEED CORN.
Last spring my neighbor did not
have good seed corn and planted
about March 25th. He tended his
corn well, even better than I did |
mine. The result was no sound corn
and the fodder ruined. NV corn
was drilled on May 18th. The seed
had been dried and kept in the house.
Every kernel grew, and nv corn is
husking out l25 bushels Of ears an |
acre of sound corn. 1t is the best
crop L ever raised. Regarding seed |
corn, men who are considered our
best farmers got caught last spring, !
and many will next on poor seed. |
Corn should be dried till no moisture
Is left in corn on cob before freezing
weather. Then shell the seed, place
1t in coarse bag, and set in cham
Der over q coal stove, where it never
freezes. / have bushels drying now
for next season.-H. A. Daniels, in
Times-Dispatch.
We can grow as fine corn in Vir-
ginia as / have ever seen. About
twenty years ago 1 lived in Chester
held county. wanted q good corn
to grow on the river. The White
Gourd seed is q very fine corn but
will not stand getting wet in an over
How after it natures. 1t will soon
sour and rot. sent to the North
and got bushei of the best Yellow
Flint corn / could find. The ears
were small, only about six inches
long, with only eight rows to the
ear. 1t did not grow as tall as our
Virginia White corn and had q small
red cob and small short grains. II
had it shelled and mixed with like
quantity Of Virginia Gourd seed,
with large grains, about half an inch
long and very large ears. This corn
was planted on James river low
grounds, and it produced q large,
Yellow Dent corn with q small red
cob with shuck that shut up yery |
tight, and the ears would stand being +
overfiowed by high water two or
three times without rotting. This
corn weighed, when dry in the fol.
lowing spring, so pounds to the
bushel, and it ripened in 90 days
from planting. This corn became
very popular and / sold seed from it
nearly all over the State, and it is
still being planted in this vicinity.
1t has more oil in il, and is greatly
relished by stock, is sweeter and
richer than white corn; it also grows
well on high land. find il paws
well to select your seed corn and I
try to be careful about my seed. Corn
is easily mixed, but by being careful
you can pick ont your seed of the
same kind every year.-F. Guy, in