The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-06

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All COWS in this cor g will be milk
ed under the supervisiU.s of the super
intendent the first evening of the fair,
and the milk discarded. They will be
MIXED morning, noon and night the
next two days, and morning and noon
the last day. The milk will be weighed
and tested for butter fat and each cow
credited with the value of her product,
skim milk being figured at 20 cents
per hundred pounds, its feeding value.
They will be rated in proportion as
they produce, SO far as the other 125
points are concerned.
The hogs must be classified in the
entry blank as either lard or bacon
type and will be scored from the stand
point you designate.
The sheep will be judged from the
standpoint of wool and mutton COM
bined.
The association announces these
classes this early that you may get
right at it, Keep the colts calves, pigs
and sheep growing every day.
If you are going to enter lambs or
next spring calves or pigs, keep them
growing from the time that they are
born, and keep them clean, particular
l. free from lice. The stock in any one
class does not have to be all the same
age.
One colt may be sucker, the other
a yearling, and SO on with the other
stock The boys who get busy now
and stick to it, are the ones who are
most likely to win.
In grains, we have confined the
varieties to the kinds commonly grown
here and have made the quantities
small, so you can select your seed now,
and if you wish to do so pick it over
by hand next fall. The best way to
get good seed, all of one variety, is to
take some bundles in the granary, and
then some rainy day pick them over.
selecting the best heads, that grew
on strong stalks, free from rust or
other disease, tie them up in small
bundles when you get enough and hang
them from wires in the attic or some
other place until you are ready to
plant them next spring. Select the
ground where you are going to SOW it
now and if it is not rich enough for
the best results, manure it and plow
it deep as soon as possible.
Then SOW it and care for it the best
possible. BY selecting your seed from
this patch for the next year in the
same way, you will soon get superior
quality CT seed grain.
If YOU would take twenty of the
best heads of each kind of this grain,
and plant each head in a row by itself
in the garden, you would find in the
fall that some of them had produced
twice as much grain as some others of
the same kind or nearly so. Then
save the seed from the few very best
rows, and with twenty of these heads
repeat the work next year and you
will very soon have seed that will
| yield one-third more under the same
conditions than the ordinary seed does.
Be very particular to have the grain
that you show pure--that is the wheat
all of one variety and also the oats,
barley and speltz and have it abso-
lutely free of weed seeds, sunken ker-
nels, etc.
Select your corn early this fall, as
soon as it is thoroughly glazed. Be
sure and get pure seed corn. If YOU
are selecting yellow, take only ears
that have a red cob, and every kernel
on it is yellow, and if it is white corn
have all kernels on it white and a
white cob. Don't select ears over 9
inches long, and better 8 inches. Sc
lect the first good that gets ripe. Braid
them together by the husks and hang
them up in the crib or in the machine
shed CT some empty building till they
get thoroughly dry, and then hang in
the attic, or some room in the house
where there is no steam, for the Win
ter. Don't put them in a building were
stock is kept, nor in a granary full of
grain. These are bad places for seed
corn. If you can find some real good
stalks with two ears on save them
by themselves to plant for the ten
stalks producing the most corn You
should gather and save about 100 ears
of each variety of seed and select each
ear from a good, strong healthy stalk.
Don't take any from broken stalks.
Now get plenty of seed at home or
near there. Don't depend Cn seed YOU
send away for, because the chances
are it won't get ripe. 1t is alright ID
send away for a little and try it. but
| don't depend on it for your show corn
until you have tried it here at least
! III cc years. Ill N1dTCH TEST every ear.
To do this take two inch plank aloat
four feet long and rule it off in two
inch squares. Take a one and one
half inch auger and bore a hole where
ever the lines cross each other. Bore
it through until the point Of the bit
breaks through the plank, but not fur
ther. Number these holes with
heavy pencil or paint, and then fill
each one half full Of warm moist
earth. Take four kernels OF corn from
different parts of one Of your ears of
corn and put it in hole No. and
mark the ear No. /. This is probably
best done by taking a piece OF card
board an inch square and numbering it
and sticking shingle nail through it
and into the butt of the ear Then
take another ear and put four kernels
from it into hole No. and number
the ear two in the same way and so
on until all the holes have corn in
them. Then fill them up with more
warm moist dirt, packing it just 4 lit.
tie around the corn. Set it down some
/ place where III is warm and IL ynuI.