Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-01-22
FARMER BARROWS GIVES AID.
VICE OF SEED CORN SELECTION
Says Quality Of Seed Governs QUAINT.
" OfCrOO Farmers Should Have
Seed Corn Plats.l

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T. R. Barrows, farmer, newspaper
man and at present the secretary of
the Greater Hendersonville club. on
request of the Hustler Democrat has
furnished the following timely article
with reference to the advantages of
studying and practicing seed corn Sc
lection and the planting of seed adapt
ed to local conditions, all of which
should be OF interest to the farmer
who is trying to improve his corn crop
and bring about better agricultural
conditions In Henderson county:
Corn, properly managed, will pro-
duce more food per acre than any
other cereal and is generally one OF
the surest crops very important
consideration indeed.
The average production of corn to
the acre i'm Henderson county is
what? For the United States it is
somewhere around 26 bushels. Hen
derson county's is less than half what
It should he. This small yield, large
ly due to poor seed corn, can be pre-
vented.
For the amount of labor involved no
work upon the farm pays better than
seed selection.
Every farmer in Henderson county
l8hOI1d have a "seed corn plot a
specially prepared and well cultivated
piece sof land.
When farmer buys high-grade
seed at large price he is simp' y pay
ing another man for using his brain
to DO what he can do just as well-r
he will.
If, he must buy seed corn let him
by all means sec6re it inahis own
sccmmunity, If that community has an
experienced and honest corn breeder
For then he will have q variety thai
has generally proved most successful
in that Iocalft
1t is not. wise 70 buy seed corn
grown under different climatieN and
soil conditions than those prevailing
here.
One variety of corn is best for one
certain locality. 1t does not follow
that it is best for some other locality.
Many a poor corn crop in Henderson
county has been the result Of buying
high priced seed grown under climatic
and soil conditions different from the
climatic and soil conditions of this
section.
It is possible for the farmer TO grow
better seed corn himself, that is, seed
ccrn better adapted to his peculiar
needs, than can be purchased Of any
,seedsman at any price.
/ The farmer who Has own ~seed corn
plat" and who follows the practice of
selection persistently will not only be
repaid in the increased yield-five
bushels to the acre the first year--bus
he will soon find he can command a
premium for it from his less progress
sipe neighbors by selling it to them
fer seed.
I Good seed corn is worth to the farm
er five dollars the bushel. For good
seed corn spells the difference between
poor crop and a good crop of corn.
Seed corn p1ats persistent, seed Sc
lection, which means better and better
seed best adapted to this county,
means constantly increasing yields OF
corn for the Henderson county farmer.
1T means less money sent west to fat
ten the swollen pockeJbooks of his
western brethren, thousands of whom
own one or more substantial automo-
biles,,, and it means help stopping the
leak which is now draining the life
blood of the community.