The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1915-12-24
MIGHT BAyE BEEN BOLT.
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Corn Grower Of FRISCO
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al Tie 81. Joseph farm congress. we
beiieye II a proper effort Lad been
made on the part Of the Holt county
corn growers, that 1t would have been
possible for Holt county 10 have won
the prize at the San Francisco Fair,
but a. IT Vas, the honor vent to an
Iowa farmer. They have no better
sot; no more intelligent farmers, nor
are climatic conditions superior there
than here, but II seems they have
some live wires among tie farmers In
Iowa, and among these was Mr.
willard Ieller, Of Green county, who
won the first prize for the bes, bushel
Of corn At the Frisco Fair, and places
him - the champion corn grower Of
the world. Our readers will doubt.
less be interested In reading the fol.
lowing article on how Mr. Zellsr
grew the premium corn
Every farmer Ia the country, and
especially those In this great agrieui.
ftaral section where corn 10 70 pfoni.
nent . product. will be interested 10
the experiments Of willard Zeller, .
corn raiser Of Greene county, Iowa,
Who was crowned the champion
corn grower OF the world, at the San
Francisco exposition Just before It
closed. Mr.. Zeller received the gold
media for the best bushsl Of corn ex.
hibited a. the fair.
Com msDting on the experiments
described by Farm and fireside, the
Philadelphia North American says
that n every acre planted In corn In
this country last year had Welded
one.half ~ much - the average acre
yield Oh the Zeller farm the Ameri.
can corn Yield would have been near.
y doubled and would lave exceeded
by many millions the total corn yield
Of the entire world Tie Ieller yield
averaged eighty bushels TO the acre,
Willie the averag. yield OF American
farms Is onIy t~enty.six bushels one
Of Iellers test acres, specially titled,
produced l3y bushels Ieller achieved
these astonishing results by improv.
INK upon the methods introduced by
Prof Holden, OF Ames, Iowa. Who by
. sort Of modified "Burbanking' IN
the shape Of seed selection added 90.
0Oo, go bushels TO the Iowa yield In
one year
The description OF the Iellef meth.
obs by Farm aud fireside " 40 clear
that II could no, be improved by he.
ing either condensed or elaborated. II
II Therefore given In the words VI that
journal:
Mr.. Teller soon saw that II Was not
enough TO have seeds which would
grow lie started out for seeds tina,
would produce tie largest yield Of tie
finest corn.
A termination ties, WAS made o! q
large number VI ears, and from among
them ten ears, all of which tested lO'
per cent perfect and strong, we're Ne
l.cted. Three hundred kernels from
each Of these ten ears we're planted
and the corn from each ear WAS plant
ed IN = separate 70"
The results we're amazing Thu
seed corn had all tested alike and al
appeared equally good, but when I,
VAS planted and cultiyaied.under tn
same conditions II was found to b.
Tar from equal. All grades Of puaiit!
we're represented. the best car yield
Ing lis bushels TO the acre and Ia,
poorest yielding only thirty sever
bushels. This WAS . revelation TO th'
Zeiler family, and even this SINAI
amount Of accurate information
awakened their interest.
But they we're not satisfied viii
one test. They were anxious to yeri
~ their experiments and planted corr
from the same mother ears unde
similar conditions the next year. TIN
results we're also Aimilar. The co
which was best the first year WAS bes
this year also, and produced . yield o
III bushels, and the poorest ear va
again poorest, With = yield OF thirty
five bushels. Al this stage they wer,
satisfied that with results 80 neArl!
uniform there could be no scciden
about their investigations. IL hst
been demonstrated that termination
proved simply that the corn woult
grow, but Was no sufficient test o
the quality or yielding properties.
After . third years trial, with re
suits almost identical, experiment.
with the original mother ears wer'
abandoned and twenty-sight ear
raised during the second and thirt
years we're tried out by the esr'to-th,
row method, This time there wer,
two high yielding ears, one OF then
producing liz bushels and the othe
lO8 bushels. Having developed sever