The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-05-04
HOW ABOUT YOUR
CORN FOR SEED?
NOW is THE TIME WHEN FARM.
Frs SHOULD ASK QUESTION
OF THEMSELVES
GOOD StEO THE FIRST REQUISITE
Fred Killing, Well Known Corn Grow.
err, Gives Farmers Some Good
Pointers on Corn Raising

This is the time of year in which
all m are planning and prepar
ing the soil for a corn crop. Let rs
all do our best and make the 1911
corn crop the banner crop of Brook.
lngs county. In the first place see TO
1t that you have a good seed bed. Do
not plant corn on poor. foul, worn
out land, and expect to get a good
crop. Timothy or clover sod plowed
in August, or any clean well fortified
ground, is a good place to plant corn.
All Jumps, in any soil, should be
worked up fine with a disk or har.
row, as the tender plant cannot
thrust itself through or thrive in soil
h a is course or lumpy. The har-
row is the corn's friend and il will do
wonders if applied at the right time.
DO not wait for the weeds to show up;
but rather keep them out OF sight, by
dragging every three or four days.
You are then warming the soil, kill
ing weeds before they appear, and
preparing an excellent seed bed.
Now Brother Farmer take a little
more pains and pride in your corn
crop, no matter what variety you in
tend to plant, whether yellow, white,
calico, or flint, secure as good seed
as there is to be had. Tip every ear
before Smelling. ] never like to plant
the small kernels on the tip Of an ear,
because they not only have a small
germ, but they also have but a
small amount of food with which to
feed the plant until It Is old enough
to absorb food and moisture from the
soil. These small kernels, also are
not true TO type.
Do not fail to plant your best seed
ears in a separate field. Next fall
get your seed corn and your show
corn out Of this good corn. You will
be surprised how many more really
good ears you will find in this piece
Of corn. BY following this plan for a
few years, you will have improved
your type OF corn, the ears will be
more uniform, they will have better
rows and ends; and above all you
will have more corn. What corn did
for Iowa, Illinois, and some parts Of
Minnesota, it will do for South Da-
kota, or better say for Brookings coun-
ty.
The main point, however, which I
wish to emphasize is, that I would
like to see every farmer bring an ex-
hibit to the County Fair next fall. A
large well selected exhibit, as a rep
resentative Of the corn crop through
out the county. will do three things:
G. It will help the Broo.,ings' county
Fair. (2) It will help to prove that
Brookings county IS the banner coun-
ty of South Dakota. CD It will show
that the Brookings' county farmers
are a live issue. Furthermore, If the
general average standard of corn in
the county is improved, and I know
it can be, the value OF Brookings
county land will be increased.
Now, If the farmers will take hold
the corn question and boost, the
directors of the fair association have
promised to offer some special prem
to the corn exhibit next fall.
These special premiums will be open
to those who have never before
exhibited cor at the Brookings coun-
ty fair. The regular corn premiums,
open to all, will be given az usual,
but these special premiums will be
open only to those who have never be-
fore exhibited corn. It Is up to we
to improve our corn. Now, is
the time to begin to raise more and
corn and to start to prepare
exhibit for the fair next fall.
Fred Killing.