The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-10-15
SEED CORN.

SEEO NOnN.
Indian corn adapts itself rather
quickly to the climate and seasonal
conditions under which it is grown.
l think there is good reason to believe
from the evidence at hand that North
western dent, Mercer, Triumph, or
even so early variety as the Dakota
would be much later in maturing If
grown in central Nebraska or Iowa for
a few years.
In view Of that fact, I would urge
corn growers to save their own seed
corn or get seed corn from fields
grown in the community where they
live and the longer the corn has been
grown in the region the better it will
be adapted for planting there.
In selecting seed corn l like to 60
into the field with sack over my
shoulder and pick the corn from the
stalks so that can see what sort of
stalk the ear grew on as well as to
determine the type of ear that l want.
This has the advantage of allowing
one to see whether the ear Is high or
low on the stalk, whether the stalk
looks strong and vigorous, or whether
it is slender and weakly and to OBJ
serve wehther the ear is ripening ear
ly or whether it is later maturing than
the average for the variety of corn in
the field.
You will find that if you take hoop
off a nail key and fasten into the
mouth Of sack that you can throw
in the ears very much more quickly
and easily when they are husked, and
selecting seed corn is particularly a
piece Of work where quick handling
increases the amount accomplished
almost invariably find that when
the corn has been selected in the field
and is taken in for curing that a con-
siderable number of the ears are
thrown out in this second sorting over.
In curing corn it is necessary to put
it where there is good circulation of
air. Corn molds very readily and too
much heat will weaken the seed and
often spoil it entirely if the heat is ap.
piled while the corn is moist. It is
we'll to hang the ears so that they do
not touch one another any more than
is necessary. If they do not touch at
all so much the better.
Two persons working together can
plant corn into strings, the ears laying
parallel to each other in what children
call cats cradles to very good advan.
tage by weaving in the ears until the
string of corn is a convenient length
to carry and hang up. You will find
that you can fill them up until the
strings will loop the last ear in and
make it tight and safe from falling
out. BY hanging these up on nails OF
hooks you have the corn situated SC
that no ear touches its neighborine
ear. On this account, I like the cats
cradle scheme much better that l dc
the old and still common way of tying
the husks together and hanging them
over a pole or rod. This way oil
hanging always allows the ears tc
touch and if any molding takes place
you will find it where the ears touch
each other.
believe that the average corr
grower needs more urging on the
point OF getting corn that will riper
than on any other feature of selection
Two different experiment stations
New York in some work in the eighties
and Indiana with work in the earl,
nineteen hundreds, have almost uni
form results from Analysing corn cut
at different stages of growth and both
show very clearly that it is a serious
mistake to grow corn that will moi
reasonably near mature.
Corn that is tasseled will look to q
man who knows nothing about it as il
there IS as much material in the field
as when the corn is fully ripe but both
of these experiment stations report
that corn cut at five different stages
namely, in the tasseling, milk, dough
glazing and fully ripe stages has in
creased in approximately the following
ratio during its ripening process. TAX