Milford chronicle., 1910-05-06

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farmer, and would make it easy
improve our system Of education. {
establish more free high school.
and have at least one agricultur;
high school and branch experimer
station in each county. In facr
/, we could buy a good many thing
with S5,oOo,ooO. Why not have il
Let us look at the matter a littl
more closely. If the corn is plante,
in hills three feet, six inches apar
each way, there will be 1855 hill
per acre. One good ear per hill
weighing pound would mean lit
tie more than so bushels Of shelleC
corn per acre. That looks easy.
If there are two good ears, there
will be something more than Ioc
bushels of shelled corn per acre.
II 1t were possible to get three good
ears, that would mean $50 bushels
per acre. The highest yield Of corn
on record in the United States is
/ 253 bushels of shelled corn per acre.
/ To secure such a yield as this there
must be of course a nearly perfect
stand, with no barren stalks and
few small ears. Large average crops
cannot be grown without good seed
planted on good soil.
GOOD SEED.
/ Select the best seed. Twelve
ears will plant an acre. Test every
ear, and be sure to number the ear. I
and take from it six kernels from
different parts of the ear, place
these six kernels on cloth in a box.
Take as many ears as are needed for
the whole planting, make as many
squares on the cloth as YOU have
ears of corn, place the kernels from
each ear on a square and number
the square put another cloth on {
top OF this and cover with sawdust {
or dirt and moisten the whole. keep
in a warm place II any of the S
kernels fail to germinate, throw S
that ear out. If some kernels "
germinate but make a weak, poor "
growth, throw those ears out. b
Good seed is seed capable of pro- e
iucing uniformly good ears. If Y
'ne-hfth or even one-tenth of the f,
kernels produce stalks that are {
ither barren or bear nothing but ia
the yield is reduced. tia
5 necessary to breed out the barren "
talks. There should be a smaller W
talk and a larger ear. If the stalk
very large in proportion to the til
ar, there must be less stalks per 6f
ere than with a smaller stalk pro ac
1clng a larger ear and consequent in
the yield will be reduced. In in,
ew England the corn grows six lit
ct high and averages 40 bushels pl,
II acre. In Delaware it grows wa
ght or ten feet high and averages wa
bushels per acre. In Georgia it to
ows twelve to fourteen feet high fro
ID averages 2 bushels per acre. COZ
le obvious lesson is that we must pli,
We seed that will produce more eve
elled corn to the size of the stalk. phC
le smaller the stalk the more Of Th
I'm may be grown upon an acre per
New England corn is planted of |
-ee feet apart each way with an kee
erage Of five stalks to the hill. of :
2 do not need such small corn TO +
we can grow much larger ears all
II are possible in New England. and
t IS best for the Delaware farmer II
plant the best seed of the best and
iety that he can find in his own won
atty. If he sends even a hun thar
d miles away from home for soil.
/ two or three years may be re- stir
red for this seed to adapt itself tilla
IS new locality. 1t is we'll to shal
highly bred corn from other beqi
es. For example, Reid's Vel seed
Dent improved by breeding for D,
years past, has become accli-
ed in several States. It was Tn
variety that produced ia psRy E
lels per acre in Connecticut, Of 10,
won the prize at the National creas
/ Show in the boys contest in grow
). It is this same variety and
)ted to northern Illinois. that -@P-1
Town as oo-day Dent. It would Wome
ell also to try Boone County
te, grown in the Central West.
also Johnson County White Kid
h has been a famous corn for discol
ig premiums, and there are -,
varieties that should be plant F&l-
T trial, and no doubt some of r9T
will soon become adapted to 7sfsf
ware soil and climate, and so XIX,
lall have some benefit from the III
done by careful breeders for MA
years past. But for the main Qk
this year, take corn that was =
II near home. child u
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=, DREAD NC CORN. age WI
Il it is worth while TO iruDrova passag