Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-02
CORN TRAINS WIND UP TRIPS
Returning Lecturers Say Results
Have Been Most Gratifying.
FARMERS ARE EAGER TO LEARN


The Northwestern seed corn special
returned to Omaha rAursday at :
o'clock having filled all schedule stops
and having had an attendance of 200
people at the thirty-fiye towns at which
seyenty-five separate lectures were
given. Eighty per cent Of the people
who attended these lectures were farm
ers, the remaining y per cent being
business men and school children.
I'VE made a whirlwind finish today
said F. G. odell Of Lincoln AT wisner
and West Point four speakers were
lecturing at once. At all the stops both
lecture cars and the waiting rooms Of
the stations were crowded with eager
farmers.
This seed corn campaign Is the great
est in history from the agriculture
standpoint" said Mr.. odell and has
been one of the most successful and
beneficial. At the close OF next week
! figure that So.oco farmers in the state
will have heard the true doctrine Of
seed com"
The seed corn In Knox and Boyd
counties was found TO be very good. The
corn In Cumming. Dodge. Washington
and the western part Of Douglas counties
was fairly good. The experts on the
different trains who have tested this
corn say that 80 per cent of the seed
corn in the state is Of excellent quality.
There will be a sufficient supply OF good
seed corn in the state this year without
the farmers having to so out of the state
TO buy II.
The state never had better prospects
for a bumper crop than this year." said
Mr.. odell The conditions were never
more favorable. don't know when the
soil has been In such excellent con-
dition. and unless some unforeseen calam-
the state will be the best and largest In
years" -.
cALLAwAY, Neb. March l.-tspecial
Telegram)-The seed corn special was
met by a large number Of farmers and
business men. The train Is In charge Of
II. J. Gramlich of South Omaha. with Il.
p. Brown Of Davey as speaker. sixteen
towns were visited by the train today
with an attendance OF 3soo superin-
tendent J. p. Carey OF the Union Pacific |
is with the train.
Trip Through Otee.
NEBRASKA CITY. Neb. March L.
Especial Telegram. 1.-The Burlington seed
corn special made very successful trip
through otoe county yesterday. arriving
In Nebraska City On time. with Dean
Burnett in charge. The roads were al
most impossible on account of the ex-
treme heavy fall OF snow. but the farm
ers turned out in a large number. At
Bennett the number In attendance was
10; Palmyra, 125; unadiila, 100; Syracuse.
800; Dunbar. l7o; Nebraska City, about
$50. Dean Burnett was In charge here
and several addresses were made.
nig Crowds In Nuekolls.
CHESTER, Ncb., March i.--tspecial Tel
gram)-Tne seed corn special was met
at Superior by over 40 farmers and about
sixty boys from the high school. Very
close attention was given the lectures
there. Al Nelson more than 600 people
had gathered. The Citizens Cornet band
was at the depot.
Superintendent Thompson OF the city
schools brought his entire high school to
attend the lectures.
At Hardy all the stores closed their |
doors and a crowd OF 600. including $50 |
school cni.dren. gavo the special en-
thuslastic welcome. The Commercial
club Of Hardy furnished dinner free 10
300 farmers
At Byron fully 800 farmers gathered to
listen to the lectures. Here the Sunday
blizzard was especially severe. No
wagons had come TO the town all week. |
At every station the gospel Of good seed
was pressed. every speaker emphasizing
The necessity of selecting seed corn as
near home as possible because corn from
Iowa, Illinois and Ohio has been raised
under different climatic soil and moisture
and consequently Is not |
adapted to Nebraska conditions. Even
corn raised In eastern Nebraska is not so |
well suited for planting In western Ne
braska. Corn that was matured in ieo |
days with warm days and nights and
thirty inches Of rainfall will not do well |
when planted where there are but 40 days |
Of growing weather with days warm and |
nights cool and only sixteen inches Of |
rainfall.
The reason why the 1911 corn Is not good
seed was explained by all the speakers
at every point, which was enthusiastically
received by all the farmers because II
was question which they did not under
stand. 1t Is because they have been breed
ing the large full ears of corn and Il
takes longer for them to mature, hence
the germ was frozen before corn matured.
II was explained that there was plenty
OF good seed in practically every corn
crib IL farmers would take the trouble TO
find It. The small ears which matured
before the frost came are the ears TO se-
lect for seed
The university men all condemned the
chart sent out by the Crop Improvement
company issued by the Chicago Board OF
Trade as being misleading and untrue To
facts. This bulletin. they said, was COM
piled by someone who did not know the
facts and was not 10 be relied on.
The Burlington has arranged TO extend
the schedule for Saturday. running from
Lincoln to Blue Hill.
HEBRON, Neb.. March 1.-(Special Tel |
Burlington seed corn spe-
cial this afternoon was greeted by 300 |
farmers and business men. This being the |
last stop for the day. the speakers took |
the full time allotted to them in giving |
he lectures Fully 2sOO Deople have heard 1