The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1916-03-31
Suggestions Regarding Corn
Crop and Good Seed

GA4N HA8 &N@- Ase<s<t
Have you selected your seed for
this Year, II not. II il best that
you do 80 soon as possible. Care
should be exercised in the selection
Of the variety you will use. It is
very unwiae to plant some variety Of
corn unsuited to your type Of soil
merely because you have hobby
for that particular corn. There are
plenty Of good types Of corn suited
to rich. poor or medium lands and
we would urge that you select one
OF the below named varieties, accord
ing to the nature Of your soil and
give it fair trial this year instead
of continuing, as is done IN great
many cases, to plant on poor hill
sides corn that Is adapted to rich
bottom lands.
The following list, wish q descrip-
tion Of each variety, as given by the
Tennessee Experiment station. will
prove beneAt In this selection:
FOR COMMON UPLAND.
Ripe enough either for silo Or to
be cut and shocked.
Hickory King, Sept. ! to 15. Ex-
ira sound, medium-season.
Lewis Prolific. Sept. to is. Bred
in Carroll County. Leader in va
riety trials in West Tennessee.
Looney. Sept. to is. Bred In
Franklin County.
Meals Paymaster, Sept. to 16.
! Bred in Wilson County. Excellent
| red cob corn for fertile uplands.
Reid's yellow Dent, Aug. "a to
Sept. Z. Valuable as an early va
riety, which does well on the better
class OF soils thruout the State.
! Leaning, Aug. 20 to Sept. 8. A
trifle earlier than Reid's yellow
Dent yellow corn suited to the
Cumberland Plateau.
FOR RICH LAND.
Webbs Improved Watson, Sept.
to is. Bred in Bedford County; a
medium season, extra sound.
Meals Paymaster, Sept. 2 to Is.
Bred In Wilson County; high yield
ing red cob corn.
Huffman, Sept. IL to Is. Bred In
Bedford County; very late but .
heavy yielder; ears large. grain
deep.
Hildreth, Sept. to IS. A high
yielding yellow corn, from Kansas.
Albemarle, Sept / to Is. A first
class ensilage variety, superior tc
Bats and most prolific in grain
production.
Corn requires good soil; dom
plant on very poor land; better SOW
thin lands to beans or cow-peas.
| There Is already a tendency or
the part OF some to begin planting
corn. 1t Is we'll known fact thai
neither plant nor animal makes
as good growth thruout its life aftel
having been checked or stunted Al
does one that has grown off rapid,
! from the beginning. This Is tru'
with corn. and where planted earl.
and chilled by late frost or coli
II spells there is tendency toward
stunting that is hard to overcome.
4 Bear this in mind, we would urg,
that you break your land, IL yos
have not already done 50, as sool
as possible and keep It harrowes
/ we'll. discing II occasionally shouls
4 1t become packed, until time fci
planting, which should be preferabl.
from April 15 to May s, or, in sec
tions Of the Highland Rim. weel
or ten days later might prove pre-
ferable.
Il Corn planted at that date usual,
does better than when plante'
earlier. Thorough preparation !
| half the cultivation; therefore. hav
i your corn land as nearly like gar
/ den as possible. using the harrow
| thoroughly.
ii In selecting strains OF corn, d
: not send far north for seed but SO
cure seed that Is acclimated to thi
section.
Il In planting, 1t Is good plan t
plant just deep enough to secur
SUFFICIENT moisture for proper germi