Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-09-17

o acres Of this years crop, when
! GOOD corn for this year. In order
q gain some idea as to the amount
4 work attached to filing a silo' viii
i've a brief statement Of his working
'orce, etc. He had seven wagons
in the corr most Of the time
our men in the field to assist In
oading. a driver with each wagon
.hree and four men in the siio to
tramp and scatter the silage, one
feeder Of a No. Is Ohio cutter, one
man 10 keep machine in operation
and look after different things and a
oO-horse power engine AMI engineer.
The silage will settle over night
foot or two, and in three days, when
il was filed TO the top, settled about
s feet. Judge Gill figures that II
cost 81 per ton to fill a silo. He fig
ures in every item. and that under
favorable weather. plenty of help
that he could fill his silo in "a days.
He has been detained several times
by rains.-Perry Enterprise.
Five boys from the rural schools
of Audrain county took the examina-
ton for the State Fair Boys School,
in this city, Saturday. The boy get
ting the best grade will have his ex-
penses paid while he is attending the
State Fair, at Sedalia this month.
County Superintendent, W. Clyde
johnson conducted the examination.
At the same time he gave a special
teachers examination to Miss Crete
Gus Caldwell, of vandalia.
The boys who took the examina-
tons are: James Crosswhite, Mace
donia school, Miss Margaret Wright,
teacher; Frank P. Whitley, Ringo
school; Russell Cook, Sneed school,
Miss Sarah Culbertson, teacher; En-
met Jesse, Grant school, w. L. Bal
lew, teacher; Leo Hutchins, Benton
City school, Miss Edna Ernst, teach
err.
"The time will o be here when
the farmer owning a quarter or a
half section of land will feed silage
to his stock through the summer in
stead Of grass" J.. II. Starr, of Starr
Bros, Centralia, Mo-, extensive land
owners and feeders, made this state
ment to the Live Stock Reporter last
week. 1--WE are coming to think, and
when we find a silo or two on every
farm, we will hear less complaint
about dry weather and short feed
crops. We never had a more favor
able prospect for a bumper crop Of
corn than we did up till about the
first or middle of July,when it turned
warm and ceased to rain. Now our
crop will be cut in two. With plen-
ty of silos, farmers could make this
half cor crop 90 twice as far"
Autumn is the time to prepare for
a profitable corn crop the following
season. AT this time the seed is
most abundant and the very best can
be obtained before ii has been in any
way reduced in vitality. Many let
the opportunity pass, expecting to
purchase their seed corn in the
spring, but the Department of Agri-
cultures specialist in charge of corn
Investigations advises that the aut-
umn is the best time to select good
seed.
The best place for the farmer to
obtain seed corn is from fields on his
own farm, or in his neighborhood,
that were planted with a variety
which has generally proved most
successful in that locality. OF course,
if a community has an experienced
and honest corr breeder on whom il
may rely, the seed orr may be OBJ
tanned from him.
The corn breeder who has demon
strated year after year the superior
ity of his corn viii demand a special
price for his superior seed. Such
corn breeders are improving corn as
cattle breeders have improved cat
tie. He has used special methods
that farmers generally have not time
to apply. Five dollars a bushel is
not too much to pay and win be a
profitable bargain for both parties.
What Constitutes Good Seed Corn?
By far too many consider seed good
simply because it will grow. To be
iirst class, seed must be:
/. Well adapted to the seasonal
and soil conditions where it is TO be
planted.
z. Grown on productive plants of
a productive variety.
9. Well matured, and preserved
from ripening time till planting time
in a manner that will retain It's fun
vigor.
The Importance of the three re-
quirements just enumerated has been
demonstrated experimentally by the
departments Office of Corn Investi-
cations. The results given briefly
as enumerated, are as follows;
l. For a series of five years. IL
well-bred varieties were tested IN IN
Northern States, equivalent lots of
seed being used in each State. vari.
cues that produced most in some
states were among the poorest in
others.
z. Seed ears taken from tho b;oh
est yielding rows Of e~ar-to.ron,
breeding plats have repeatedly pro.
auced better than seed ears taken
0 poorer yielding rows. Seed
ears from the best producing stalks
lOund IN a general field produced
more than seed ears taken without
considering the productiveness 81 ~
parent stalks.
. -Four bushels Of ears wero ~
Nlded intn fu,o So