Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-03-25

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trouble" who usually succeeds.
The testing of enough seed toplant
a fifty acre corn crop need not
take more than a total of one
days work for one man. 1t is
surprising to count the ears of
corn actually being borne in an
apparently good corn field and
then find by calculation what a
small percentage that is of the
number of ears that should be
there. Remember again, that the
missing hill, or the hill with one
stalk, or with one or more barren
stalks, requires just as much
blowing as good hill with two
stalks each bearing good ear.
The termination test may be
performed in the following man.
ner. First, a box twenty-four
inches square and about three
inches deep is made; it is filled
two inches deep with clean sand,
good soil or sawdust that has
been we'll leached. The sawdust
or other material should be thor
oughly moistened and well pack
ed down. Cut out a piece of
white cloth to fit inside the box.
Lay this off into squares with a
black pencil, ten each way like
a checker board, thus leaving a
border of two inches around the
box. This box will accommodate
one hundred ears of corn, enough
to plant seven acres. Number
the squares from one to one hun
dred. Select one hundred ears
desirable for planting, and ar
range them in line with the butts
toward you. Number little
squares of cardboard from one to
one-hundred. With pins or
single nails pin these to the
butts of the ears; then take six
grains from each ear and lay
them at the butt of the ear. Two
grains should be taken from
near the butt on opposite sides of
the ear, two from opposite sides
of the middle, the ear being re-
volved one-third of its circumfer-
ence; and two from opposite sides
Of the ear toward the tip, the ear
being revolved as before. Thus
grains are taken from six differ.
ent places on the ear. Place
| each of these groups of six grains
J in its corresponding square in the
box with the heart side up ant
the tips pointing in the same di
, rection. Cut out another piece
of cloth just the size of the box
y wet it and cover the corn with
out disturbing the position of tn,
o grains. Take another piece O
cloth larger than the box ant
spread it down carefully owe
this. On this put an inch of we
sand, or whatever material wa
used in the bottom of the box
Fold the edges of the cloth bacl
over the box, put on a cover o
y boards and set the box wher
the temperature will not fall be
low fifty-fve degrees and wi
D run up to about seventy-degrees
In about a week the box will b
J. ready for inspection. CAREFUL
remove the cover. When a squar
J, does not show six well develope
l. sprouts, discard the correspond
ing ear.
5; Another convenient method
IS to take a strip of cloth about min
!, inches wide and mark a spac
W down the center three inche
]. wide with cross marks like tn
rounds of a ladder. These space
q are numbered consecutively frol
:. top to bottom, corresponding
the numbers on the butt of tn
n ears. Wet the cloth and the
lay the extracted kernels in tt
. proper spaces. Fold the margi
4 of the cloth over the grains an
then roll the whole strip lengtl
wise. Several of these rolls ma
X be bound together and rolled
W a towel or cloth. A strip of clot
should be tied in the center an
the other end placedin a vess
of water to act as a wick to kee
the whole bundle moist. II
bundles must be carefully unro
ed.
T. R. Bryant,
College of Agriculture,
Lexington, Ky,