Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-01-19
HOW TO BREED CORN
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tion than chance a weak stalk with
low vitality and consequent small
yield.
But from whatever rows the Selec-
tion OF seed for the next year be
made, it should be made reasonably
early, partly in order to give time for
careful study not merely Of the ear,
but of the stalk and the location Of
the ear on the stalk, which should
always be about the middle, neither
too high or too low down; and partly
in order to get it well dried out be-
/ fore severe freezing, SO as to secure
the vigorous termination without
: which the corn, whatever be its type,
! is Of no value.
Corn grown in this way will be
worth great deal more grown in the
immediate ncighborhood and on the
same kind of land, than corn of SINH
lar quality brought in from dis
tance, whether north, south, east or
west 1t is more important to get
corn grown in the locality than any
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| for the reason that corn has a wonder
full adaptability to climate, to mois-
ture conditions, and there are no two
counties in any state in which con-
ditions are just exactly the same.
When farmers get to doing this,
there will not be very many seed corn
advertisements in the agricultural
papers. The object of an agricultural
paper, however. is not to cater to its
advertising side alone, but to promote
! the general good, and it can very well
afford to take chances in getting the
advertising which is so essential to its
being published at all at current
prices, provided itpromotes the gen
richer. Some Of their wealth will
find it's way into the advertising
columns: no trouble about that.
We are firmly persuaded that in
stead Of growing from thirty to forty
bushels per acre, these corn states
can, by following out the policy we
recommend, grow on land of the same
fertility fifty to sixty bushels, and
this increased yield will all be needed
as the years go by, to meet the in
creasing worlds demand for corn for
food for man and beast, for export,
for manufacturing purposes. 1t can
not be done, however, unless some
farmers sons or daughters, in each
| ltnxpnc1,in fnlyo hold lf fhic q RI or.
| vigorously, and work it out on the
| lines that are recommended by those
who have given the subject most
careful study.
When our readers take hold Of this
| matter in earnest and the eyes Of the
county supervisors are sufficiently
opened so that they will conduct corn
growing experiments on the county
| poor farms in all the various counties,
| there will be some fine sport in seeing
which of these township breeders will
take the premiums on corn grown
from seed furnished by them in the
county poor farm.
This is one of the lines of investi-
cation and experimentation that will
pay, not merely in education but in
the dollars which every farmer de-
sires to earn and should desire. For
pure bred seed corn grown right in
the neighborhood will be in demand
by the farmers who believe in pro-
gress, but who either do not want to
or cannot take the time necessary to
grow the very best seed corn. These
men can well afford to pay five dollars
a bushel for good type Of seed corn
corn grown in the neighborhood and
on the lines above recommended.