The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-01

| ups thus degtroy1nS many Weeus UT so
 checking their growth as to give the more slowly germinating broom corn an equal start.
 | Harrows weeders and cultivators ! (with sidebars to protect the plant from being covered with soiD if used frequently after the young plants show ! along the row will greatly lessen the
 labor of hoeing.
 Old stalks of weeds, corn, sorghum. broom corn and the like will seriously interfere with the cultivation of this l crop, and such trash should be gotten | rid of before the broom corn is planted. Cultivation should be of such fre- | quency as not only to destroy all | weeds before they have attained size ! that would injure the broom corn or | interfere with the ease of their destruc- | of a crust upon the soil surface and to maintain a high degree of tilth which will benefit the crop more than the weeds will injure.
 If the plants are found to be too | thick the surplus should be removed when the first hoeing is done-Bulletin Arkansas Experiment Station.
 What Seed Selection Will Do.
 By Hal Tunnels. Texas. in Southern viii vii try to get in on corn. in this I read that 1t was to be "our Corn and Cotton special. I do not plant any cotton at all. In the last issue the ed itor says. "Yog may taikgu up either one Several years ago obtained seed corn directly from Mexico; It was not pronto." The first meaning spotted corn" from the fact that sometimes va,
 rious colors will be found on one ear. I
 yellow and white on same cob. The other name. "maise pronto" means aauick corn In Mexico I have seen two crops in the same year planted and Southwest Texas. It may be planted from the earliest corn planting season in this latitude on to July 20. and make corn. It Is drouth resistant. NS l1n1 ai1 ed out to the very tips. It makes stalk about seven feet high. ears low down. The ears of the native corn are
 short with big cob and short grains, hence would not make much per acre of good shelled corn. Once in a while there would be two ears to stalk, not often.
 could improve this variety of corn and at the same time preserve Ire drouth resisting and quick maturing qualitles. went into the field while the corn was still green to select and mark those stalks from which to select my seed TOT the next crop. l chose the ears tnat
 showed, the greatest length rom .ne marked these stalks and when they De-
 gan to show signs of maturity l choss from only those maturing nrst ana from these last l chose only the ones having the longest grains and smallest cob with gpains well and firmly set ln- to the cob. I always selected the pot
 tom ear upon the stalk as II IS the st Hast vitality of the parent stalk. l lald on my ground always three feet apart TOT
 rows and plant so as to have one stalk every twenty inches in the dTiii: al- ways tried to have my corn land blow
 ed well and then give thorough euiti-
 vation with Planet Jr:. five tooth cult
 vator No. I. use all the different at- tachments. l always cultivate as near
 level as can. A..
 Now for the results. After the first
 year of breeding l noticed 2 very marx
 ed Improvement and after four years or careful selection obtained ears with
 grains to the row. Small cob. long
 sixty days from planting, two ears to the stalk and many times three DIE
 ears Easy to break. hence quickly
 gathered. The shucks close over end oL
 ear shutting out rain. hence in rainy
 season at or after maturity no rotten
 corn. And above all l made by weight
 (after four years of selection or breed
 ing) sixty bushels of corn per acre
 When I began with 1t twenty-five bush
 els would have been good yield.
 Last year planted it on poor land,got ing And but for a friend, to whom
 gave about a quart of corn to plant 1
 would be entirely out of this seed. I
 have some of Hastings prolihc this
 wear and am going to cross breed It
 and some of the Mexican corn.>> will
 plant one row in the field of Hastings
 prolific" so the two will tassle at the
 same time. Then as the tassels are
 just beginning to form will pull out
 those of the Mexican corn. Hastings
 claims six ears for his prolific, have
 two or three on my Mexican. what
 will the cross be? Time will tell. Caldwell. Tex.