The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-19
HIS CORN CULTURE
IDEAS ARE AMONG
BEST PRESENTED.
Prof. Certer, Corn Ex-
pert, Presents Much
on Corn Growth.
UNDER FOUR HEADS
Treats the Farmer, The Soil,
The Seed and Corn With
Great Interest.

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corn show was devoted principally to
discussion and talk concerning mat
ters to the corn industry, and some
generalities. Surrounded on every
hand with an abundance of corn it
was not difficult matter to get en-
thusiastic over the corn proposition.
Mayor Hitchcock gave the address
of welcome to the assembled men.
He thought that after reading the re-
ports over the country during the
past few years that the farmer had
come into his own in the way Of bet
ter prices all around for his produce.
The mayor referred to the Morrill, act
of 1852 which gave the first life and
impetus to the agricultural features
of the United States, and referred to
several acts in succession that were
passed by congress giving greater
concessions to the agricultural indus
try. until at the present time he said
the latest bill in congress made it
possible for the agricultural college
at Brookings to receive annually the
sum of $4,000 for the furthering of
the agricultural study of this state,
and all agricultural colleges in the
country were treated with the same
liberal hand. All of this great pro-
gress has taken place in a short fif-
ty years.
The question with the mayor was
how to get the farmer interested. He
stated that it would be necessary to
go to the farmer with the informa-
ton at hand.
President Dawes gave his annual
address at the close of the welcome
extended by the mayor, in the course
of which he went into the history
of corn to some extent and told of
the many uses to which this cereal
is put, showing it to be one of the
great resources of food-stuffs of the
world.
Any farmer who failed to hear the
addresses at the corn show Tuesday
evening missed getting information
which would be worth hundreds Of
dollars to him in the year to come.
There were two speakers on the
program, both of them men thor
oughly versed in the scientific plan
of agriculture, and what they had to
say had the full impress Of merit in
their words. 1t was detailed infor-
nation on certain classes of farm
ing that is not otter heard in address,
es of this character and it will be
beneficial to a high degree for any
man who follows the teachings of
these men. The addresses were de-
livered by Prof. Tower, connected
with the experiment. station in Wyom-
ing and Prof. o. D. Center, who is at
the head of the farmers Institutes in
Illinois.
Prof Towers address had to do
principally with conserving the soil.
He touched on the plowing of the
ground. When is the best time, how
deep to plow and for what special
grains. In discussing the question of
profit the speaker went into some de-
tail to show how much more crops
could be grown on ground where the
farmer followed the later methods
adopted in agriculture. He believ-
ed that the farmer could appreciate
the difference of raising 100 bushels
of corn to the acre than only getting
fifty bushels. He said it costs 80
bushels per acre to raise the crop,
and if an average crop of 45 bushels
is raised the IS bushels affords a
clean profit, and if the farmer is
raising 60 bushels of corn he is just
doubling his profit. He held that
| it does not cost any more to raise 60
bushels of corn per acre than it does
80 bushels, and one bushel Of corn
additional to the acre means just an
increase of s31;O0O.0O0 to the
farmers of the country. Prof. Tow
er's address was filled with general
information Oh farm matters and it
was listened to with great interest.
Raising Better Corn.
Prof. o. d. Center, who is scoring
the corn, and is considered an ex-
pert at the business gave one of the
best talk on corn culture that has
been listened to in years. Prof Cen
ter was formerly connected with the
state university Of Illinois, and is
now the superintendent of farmers
institutes Of Illinois. For nearly two
house the professor discoursed on his
subject and every word was OF i'm
portance to the farmer. Prof. Cen
ter said In substance:
The South Dakota Corn and Grain