The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-21
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States aggregated 2,66S,651, 900 bushels.
worth about $4,000 100000. That was
a great deal of corn, more doubtless
than Joseph managed to put In his
warehouses down in Egypt--although
Joseph's corn was really not corn at
all. but wheat-and 1t was worth Il
good deal of money. The Iowa crop
'totaled up as they say In Texas.
2S7, 456 900 bushels. Last year 1t fell
short of what the farmers expected.
and the experts resolved upon new
method of getting better results.
before and the results of which are
now awaited with considerable. in
terest by those who move in tho
higher agricultural atmosphere.
This Spring the corn experts at
the state Agricultural College appealed
to the preachers of Iowa to set apart
Sunday for special religions medita-
ton upon this years seed corn and
some, at least, of the ministers have
come across" in fine style, as we
are INFORMED ny lHt .>tM iol Su'ib
and instead of praying Give us this
day our daily bread" now adopt the
formula, "let us pray for our seed
corn" This is what the Houston
Post would call "a durn yer resort"
and we are all curious to know exact
ly how it will turn out Heretofore
the corn experts in Iowa have been
selecting the biggest ears and the
likeliest looking grains from these
ears for planting in boxes of earth. or
in testing houses, wherever they could
afford them. and with the result this
year that not more than half the se-
lected seed came up at all. greatly
to the dismay of the experts, who
in behalf of the unfruitful seed they
have selected. This is putting Provi-
dence to a very severe test and count
ing upon a miracle to undo another
miracle, the miracle of barrenness
which has been imposed upon the seed
corn of Iowa.
Instead of appealing to the preach
ers, the corn planters of Iowa would
doubtless obtain far better results If
they would buy their seed corn from
the growers in Virginia. If we We're
as familiar as we ought 10 be with
Drummond's Natural Law in the
Spiritual World" or were taking a
| flyer for a degree at oxford, or wher-
| aver 4, ,ros ,re ebouId CAV that thu
| seed corn in Iowa had run out" There
are "old families" in some of the
| States that have run to seed az
| the saying goes, and what has hap
4. pened in their case might very vel
| have happened to the seed corn OF
| Iowa We should think it would bt
! far better and more 'faunal" like IL
instead of wasting a Sunday on tbs
seed corn proposition. the preachers o
Iowa would advise the farmers in theil
respective congregations, on week-a
days. of course. to- substitute for plant
ing purposes for the seed corn of Iowa
which. admittedly it would take
miracle TO fructify, the old origina
and never falling corn grown in Nir
ginia and North Carolina. If the low;
farmers will do this. and at the sam
time will buy their fertilizers in Rich
| mond. their fields will again yiel
abundant harvests without the irrever
ent ceremony of beating religious tom
toms to obtain a practical benefit.
Give us this day our daily bread
covers the corn fields of Iowa as wei
as the tobacco fields of Virginia an
the cotton fields of the South w
shall all get what is coming to II
without attempting to establish ia
miliar intercourse between the Create
and the creature We have an idef
somehow, that the DEGREES of licave
are not to be affected by the method
of the walking delegate or the ma
chirery of religion
.