Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-25
Be SURE Of CORN
EXPERT 5 ADVICE
GOVERNMENT ACRiCULTURIsP
IN TULSA EXPLAINS HOW
FARMERs LOSE OFT.
THIS fall THE RIGHT TINE
Steps Then May Be Taken In select.
ing Proper Grains That Win In
sure Bountiful Crops.

Next spring" said j. T.. IIarter.
United States government agFiculiur-
ist stationed IN Tulsa yesterday, "un-
less things are very different from
what they usually are, there VIII be a
great many farmers over the coun-
! try looking for seed corn. Many Of
them viii not know where 10 get It,
10 get AT the same time the best re-
suits, Many OF these farmers, II past
experience repeats Itself, will plant
seed corn Of poor quality and In con-
sequence will fail to get the results
they expect, or would like TO GET
To raise really good seed corn Is
not the very simple matter so many
farmers think H. but to get better
seed corn than the average farmer
has been planting should be easy for
any man who Is willing to take even
a little trouble.
have often advised our farmers
to grow their own seed corn, or to
get II from some reliable grower in
their own neighborhood. Failing
this the best plan is probably to buy
from some reliable grower whose soil
and climate do not differ greatly
from those Of the buyer, There IS
really no god reason, however, why
most farmers should not get from
their own fields better seed corn than
they have been planting, even when
they bought seed corn from dealers.
10 l,..f e1
er can raise better see dcorn than he
can buy There are men who are
giving Serious thought to the breed
ing and selection Of corn for plant
ing; but there are others who with
the best intentions In the world per-
haps, are selling for planting, corn
that is really unfit for any progress
sive farmer to plant. The man who
viii not go to the trouble Of selecting
his own seed corn, especially IL he
makes an effort to get his seed as
cheap as possible.
Pays 10 go Outside"
III the farmer has not a good
strain Of corn, he should certainly
buy seed for his whole crop from
some reliable grower; if he mas
good strain, 1t will pay him to set to
work to make IT better. He cannot
do this by selecting from the crib in
the spring. lie must begin the work
Of selection this fall 70 be frank
about it, he is not at all likely to i'm
prove the quality of his corn by any
method of selection he can pursue in
his corn field. Unless he has special
seed patch which he has planted
from selected and numbered ears,
kept carefully rogued and watched
closely as it grew, about all that he
can count mis- TO hold what he has.
But even in this case, he can by care
ful selection in the field this fall get
better seed corn than he can by pick
ing out the biggest ears next spring.
IF the farmer planted a seed corn
patch by the ear-to-row method. as
! advised last spring, he will, Of
be governed by the compara-
tive merits of the different rows as
well as by the comparative merits Of
the individual stalks; but If he must
make his selection from the fields
where the main crop grows, he win
have to look almost entirely to the
individual stalk.
Consider the Entirety.
Right here is the first great lesson
for farmers to learn about selecting
seed corn; The whole plane must be
not merely the ear 1t is
not big ears that are wanted, but
bushels Of grain. The prolific varie-
which make two or more
ears-outyield the single cared varie-
ties on most Of our soils. The far
mer, then, should select ears from
stalks producing two or more good
ears. lie should aloo try to have
these stalks Of only medium height,
rather stocky with broad blades, and
with ears at a reasonable distance
from teh ground. The ears should
be Of the typical variety shape well
covered at the tip with shuck, and
heavy enough to hang down A very
long shank, however is Objectionable.
Ears with STRAIGHT rows. well filed at
lips and butts with cobs of medium
Size and with closely wedged grains
ire to be preferred
Selection Always Paws.
ut Is comparatively little trouble
'or the farmer to select his seed corn
rom such stalks at corn-cutting or
'orn-gathcring time, and it will pay
aim Handsomely to do So Yet he
should remember that the ears he gets
rom even the best stalks in his field
nay have been fortified by pollen
rom very Inferior stalks To breed
~ a strain Of corn requires n special
'eed patch and also more knowledge
II seed selection than the average
armer possesses Of corn breeding.
To remove Precipitation odors put
wo tablespoonfuls Of compound spir-
Is OF ammonia in basin OF water