Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25
Especial Correspondence Of ht Desert NeO' BY Frank Corpar)

plenty Of barnyard manure, kept the
field well worked, and as ~ result, my
FIRST crop amounted TO 900 bushels, or
~ bushels TO the acre, which was far
above the yield OF the rest Of the farm.
That started me 20 studying the sub
ject, ana ! kept up MY studies when |
went to the Illinois agricultural coll
lege nc tfrbana q year on so later. There
we had an experimental corn patch,
and We tried every way we could to
Ia crease the yield One means was
by choosing good seed. We found that
certain seed corn produced double as
many ears az other seed corn, and by
investigating where the corn came from
we found that the best was furnished
by two farmers. one in Indiana and one
IN Illinois We wrote and asked as 10
how the seed was produced, aud found
that each man had fOrs25 years been
rejecting his best seed for planting,
judging tho same by the size stalk and
Weld Tho indiana man Hne raising
white corn and had been breeding up
that variety The Illinois man had been
doing the same thing with yellow and
hir seed was such TINT It produced
about 1G bushels per acre.
This ied us 20 bolleyc that corn
could We greatly improved by tho seloc-
ton Of seed and bv using The best spe-
cmers OF tho best varieties 10 breed
from we hogan 10 DO that al the agrl-
cultural coliosc I'm 1892 and from that
time on ,he movement has spread un-
M there are corn breeding associations
IN all the great corn raising conters."
BOY CORN RA1sERs.
do you have trouble IN getting the
farmers to improve their sead?
mo" replied Mr.. Sh2mel; when one
farmer Of o community has the right
seed his Biz crop Is an object lesson to
an his nelghhors and they are ready TO
follow his example next year and do
likewise. The matter has become 80
important I'm the west that the state
f9lrs offer premiums for the best corn,
The states have special corn exhibits
at which from 1900 to 10000 samples
of corn are shown. schools OF corn
iuding have been established through
out Illinois and other states, and |
might say that there are hundreds OF
thousands Of boys each Of whom has a
little patch OF corn and who Is studying
how 10 raise corn for himself There
were 8 600 samples OF corn sent by 5000
different boys to the 81. Louis EXPOSE
ton 10 form part " the Illinois corn
exhibit there The same thing IL going
ON In Iowa. kansas, Nebraska, Mis-
souri, and Ohio"
where DO the boys ret tholE land on
which to raise this corn2'
1T ia given them by their fathers.
Instead Of letting each boy have p COW
a horse or something Of that Kind, the
father gives his son few acres to put
into corn 20 raise premium seed All
the boys Of farming community WI!
be so treated and nj a certain time ~
the year each viii bring 10 Of the be<
ears OF his crop 10 the corniudging as
socia ton II win be there passed upon
by the corn Judges and the best corn
will receive premiums Of money or
machinery There will often be three
premiums for each class OF corn shown,
ranging from S25 to SO or less The
boys thus learn what constitutes good
corn. the principal kinds Of corn and
how It should be raised"
BIG CORN BREEDING FARMS.
"It Is odd TO think Of corn breeding
farm" continued MIR Shamel. hut we
have farms where corn IL as carefully
bred In respect to seed as horses and
cattle are bred on any stock farm In
the country, The heads OF these farms
know the pedigree OF the ears Of corn
they plant, and they take the best of
the corn produced from these pedlgreed
corn ears to use for the next years
planting. one ear OF corn is used for
one row, an ideal ear being selected
and the best stalks ~ that row are
used for the next years crop, so that
there Is a continual breeding upward
| A good grain OF corn being planted may
| have a thousand or more children
/ sa
and grains Of corn on the car. and some
| OF these children may be better breed
| ers than others. The grains IN the mid
| die Of the ear usually produce better
! corn than the little ones 40 the butts
| and tips, and the very best producers
] are used for seed growing"
! Are these corn farms larger"
There Is one near Bloomington, Ill.
! which has 1900 acres. and there are
others almost as large. | know Of on
Of $4,000 acres and many OF hundred