The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-11-11
SPECIAL ADVICE FOR
HANDLING SEED CORN
BY COLLEGE EXPERTS
Important to Make Provisions
Now to Be Protected For
Next Years Crop.

Bookings. S. D., Nov. Ga. N.
Hume. agrcnomist at the state agr1-
cultural college, has given out the fol-
lowing advice on the necessity of farm
of a supply of good seed for next
spring:
Other things equal, this seasons
Greg ~ seed corn is best for next
springs planting. But, this year, 9TH
err things are not equal. In some To-
caltties things are very unequal. Some
fields of corn failed to ripen suffi-
GENTLY to make seed; some will make
seed if carefully stored; some fields
matured this season in excellent
shape.
ON the third day of September at
1roquois the writer saw ears of corn
solid enough for seed. The next day
at Yankton a larger grower said that
another week would put his seed crop
out of danger Of being actually ruined
by frost. The state at large is appar-
entity in a position to supply itself with
new corn for seed.
Accordingly, the writer believes 1t
Will not be absolutely necessary to de-
pend entirely on old corn for next
years seed. The important part of the
immediately secure seed corn, either
old or new, and preserve it for a day
to come.
IF o know of a crib Of Did corn
grown in your community which you
think may be suitable for seed, ex-
anime it carefully. If the ears are
solid, free from mould, and if the
kernels have germs that are Of good
flesh color, not blackened, the pros
pect is promising that it will make
good seed. You ma decide to keep
the entire crib and use it for seed pur-
Gliding this, you may as we'll make a
composite termination test of the crib.
Keeping corr that would fail to grow
would be of no advantage.
Select 100 ears from different posi-
tons in the crib. They should be rep
resentatives Of the entire amount of
corn. Take one kernel from each of
the 100 ears, and make a termination
test with them. If So or more of them
grow, a V the crib. If the crib is we'll
constructed, dry. and free from rats,
the corn may remain in the crib till
spring, or the corn may be removed
and stored elsewhere if the crib room
is needed for any other purpose. In any
event, however, do not shell the corn
for 1T will retain vitality longer in the
ear, SO it is stated on fairly good au-
thority.
Next spring before the crib of corn
is used for seed make an ear test of
the entire amount. Take at least three
kernels from each ear in making his
test, one from butt. middle, and tip.
DISCARD all ears for seed that thus
prove to have any dead kernels"
MESSAGE ON STONE TABLET
TELLS OF PIONEER TRAGEDY
Pierre, S. D., Nov. 6.-The state mu-
scum has received from w. e. Lyman,
OF Spearfish, a stone tablet found on
the mountain above Spearfish by Louis
Iheon in March, 1887. 1t is a fiat sand
stone slab about 10 inches square upon
which is scratched the following in
scription:
Game to these hills in 1893, seven
OF US. De La Compt, Ezra Kind, G. w.
WOOD, %. Brown, r. Kent. VIM. King,
indian Grow. All dead but me. Ezra
KIND, killed by Ind beyond high hill,
got our gold June, 1884. Got all of the
gold we could carry. our poney all got
by the Indians. l have lost my gun
ana nothing to eat and Indians hunt
ing me-"
Black Hills, generally, believe in the
genulneneSs OF the tablet.