The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-04-07
GET YOUR SEED
CORN At HOME
HOME GROWN SEED WILL PRO-
DUCE MORE.
Bay Your Seed Corn on the Ear and
Test Every Ear You Use, Good
Rule to Follow by Our
Farmers.

ne average yieiu OF coKIi III lcn-
nessee per acre is rs bushels, in Ark
ansas 20 bushels and in Mississippi 1s
bushels. The rainfall. the length Of the
growing season and he summer tenn
perature of these three states are the
kind to produce 100 bushels of corn
an acre. The causes for general low
yield are worn out soil, shallow plow-
ing, scrub seed and poor cultivation.
There is a general movement to
build up the land with cowpeas, vel
vet beans, lesjedeza and bur and Grim
son clover. Thin, worn out, clay up
land that yields s to 10 bushels of
corn has been built up in Shelby eoun-
ty in three years by the use of these
soil building crops to yield so bushels
an acre. Yields on many farms can
be doubled this year by the planting
of seed from high yielding strains and
thorough preparation of the land and
cultivation. 1t will not pay to plant
any land to corn that will not produce
over 20 bushels to an acre with good
seed, good preparation of the land and
thorough tillage. Every bushel above
this yield only may be counted as
profit
The best place. to get seed corn is
on the farm where the seed is to be
planted, if well bred corn has been
grown on the farm. The next best
place to get seed corn is from farm
in the community, providing there is
a farm in the neighborhood that rails
es well bred corn. Where there is no
well bred corn either on the farm or
in the neighborhood, seed should be
secured from the point nearest to the
farm where high yielding corn is rails
ed
In one test, seed corn grown in the
county averaged II bushels an acre
more than equally as well bred corn
grown in adjoining counties, and %
bushels an acre more than seed
grown in adjoining states. In another
test, seed corn on the farm yielded
three bushels an acre more than choice
seed grown so miles from the farm,
and nine bushels more an acre than
high yielding strains Of corn grown
inl other states. II snother 4 -.
saiaples Of the same corn were piarv.
ed side by side, one sample grown on
the farm and the other grown on good
land SO miles from the farm. The
yield from the seed grown on the
farm was AZ percent greater than
that from the seed brought so miles.
When it is necessary to buy seed
corn buy it on the ear. | have exam
ined good many lots of seed corn
this Winter and have found a consid
cradle number Of ears that were en-
larged at the top, but were weak thro
the middle and very pointed. Such ears
came from plants with weak vitality
and the stalks grown from these ears
are likely to be barren if the season
is unfavorable at the time the corn
tassels
By buying seed corn on the ear the
purchaser can look over each ear, re-
ject the poor shaped ones, and be sure
that every ear he uses for seed is
good-appearing one. A good ear of
corn is medium in size for the variety
to which it belongs, cylindrical in
shape, tapering gradually to the tip
with the butt end not enlarged, and
the kernels on the butt end as fully
matured as those on the middle Of the
ear. There should be little space be-
tween the rows Of kernels and the ker
nels should fill out the space next to
the cob.
1t pays to test every ear to be used
for seed. Many tests have been made
of the difference in yieldig powers
between different ears Of the, same
variety. 1t has deen found that where
the ears of the same variety look as
alike as twins that there may be diff
ference of 5 to100 bushels per acre
lin the field from different ears.