Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-18
SOME NOTES
Of Interest to Truckers, Farmers
and Stock RaiSerS.

IN NSSSAh ohorS VI virginia HrO-
| duce Exchange has declared a dividend
of 10 per cent for the current year.
Indications are that the business of the
year will exceed 81, 900, 600.
DIR. Walter j. Quick, a native of Vir-
ginia, but now of Gosport, Ind, will
succeed Professor A. M. Soule as dean
of the agricultural department and pro-
fessor of agriculture in the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
The 'rejuvenated Irish potato" is
the latest form of adulterated food to
which Food Commissioner Dunlap's at
tention has been called. Chicago deal
ers are treating potatoes of the crop of
1906 with some liquid that peels off the
skin after the manner of 'new pota-
toes
With indications pointing to a corn
crop of $500, 000, 900 bushels, or nearly
30 bushels per head of population, the
United States should feel cheerful.
Such crop means an average of from
12O to $50 bushels per family, which
ought to suffice, even if much of it is
converted into pork and other less
wholesome products. Baltimore Sun.
The tomato canning industry is fast
becoming one of the most important in
terests in Westm6reland county, ac-
cording to a Times-Dispatch writer.
There are fifteen canneries within the
borders of the county, and as many,
perhaps, in the adjourning county
of Richmond. The season has been very
favorable for growing tomatoes, and
at this time every cannery in the entire
section is running up to its full capacity
every day, and half of the night.
Some are not able to handle all the
fruit, and in a number of cases, hun
dreds of bushels of fruit have been des-
troyed or dumped out to waste. The
scarcity of labor to peel the fruit is, in
most cases, responsible for this. The
canneries will this season put up all
the way from 5000 to 10, 900 cases (two
dozen quarts to the case) each. The
market price for these goods at this
time, as quoted, is S1.65 per case. The
fifteen canneries in this county will
to make very conservative estimate
pack loo, 900 cases of tomatoes, When
sold, If these goods sell for $3.50 per
case, the packers will realize $50, 900.
which will be brought into the county.
OF this amount, the growers will re-
ceive large per cent, labor is benefited
and the packers realize handsome profit.
SELECT CORN SEED NOW.
In the current issue of the Hartsville
Messenger Mr.. d. r. Coker, than
whom no man in South Carolina is more
interested in helping the farmers of the
State, has the following:
October is here and farmers will soon
be ready to harvest their corn. The
corn crop of the country is the best ever
made, owing to favorable seasons and
the general adoption of the Williamson
plan. The yield, however, is nothing
like as good as it would be if every
farmer had Systematically selected his
seed corn for several years past.
The time to select seed corn is right
now and the place is in the field. Don't
send your hands into the fields to gather
your corn until you have yourself gone
through it and selected enough seed for
the next years crop. Select only large,
low set ears on strong stocky plants.
Select ears from plants that are proper.
ly spaced IN the rows rather than from
plants that have great distance, fol-
seed should only be selected from plants
that have grown under normal condi.
tions.
After your seed has been selected
from the field go over the ears care.
fully and pick out few of the finest
Take only those which are we'll filled al
butt and tip, which are not affected by
weevils and which have long grains
These few best ears should be planted
in rows to themselves next spring, and
they will undoubtedly produce seec
that is superior to what you now have
The balance of the ears selected from
the field should be used to plant the
general crop next year; but no selection
should be made next year except from
the rows planted from the few best
selected ears, and if any one of these
rows shows a marked advance over the
others, only ears from that row shoulc
be used to plant the seed patch the
following year.
The tremendous Importance of seeC
selection and plant breeding is not ap.
preciated as it should be by the farmer.
of this section, and we earnestly urg,
our readers to heed our advice anC
begin system of selection this fall
Nothing that we know of is surer t,
pay big dividends on the time anc
trouble required.