Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-21
SEED GROWERS OF
THE STATE ELECT
THEIR OFFICERS
Papers Are Read at Conven-
ton and Interesting Dis
cussions Engaged in on
Agricultural Topics.

Caldwell, Jan. 21.-The Idaho State
Seed Growers association today elect
ed the following officers:
PRESIDENT. Wylie Sessions, Poca-
tello.
Vice presidential. j. Snyder, Spring |
field.
Secretary and treasurer-O. ID. Cen
ter. Boise.
Directors-J II. Beasley, Idaho Falls
o. e. Scott, Pocatello.
The second day of the Idaho Seed
Growers convention opened yesterday
forenoon with an address by V. d.
Hanna on Pure Bred Seeds and Pure
bred Hogs and Why" Mr. Hanna had
samples of purebred seed oats in the
sheaf and of purebred corn in the ear
to show as samples of high quality He
said that the why of purebred seeds is
the fact that they will produce heavier
and better crops than the mongrel
seeds will produce He showed an
ideal ear of corn that had been grown
in Idaho and told his hearers that If
they cannot buy selected purebred seed
corn, they can select seed from their
own fields to plant rather than to plant
anything they happen to get hold OF.
you can produce good seed by care
full selection" he said, and the i'm
provement in your grain will be rapid.
But the crib is not the proper place to
select seed corn. Select it in the field
about six weeks before harvest time
and cut down the tops from stalks you
decide to use for seed SO that the sub
stance of the plant will go to the ear,
making q strong terminating power
and a bright, oily appearing grain.
How to Select Seed Corn.
Don't select an ear of corn that
stands close to the stalk, for that in
dicates that it is light; take the one
that has weight enough to make it
hang down. Don't take an ear that has
a long, sharp husk, for that indicates
that it is not nlled out clear to the
end; it will not be well filled at the tip.
Get an ear that carries the grain from
tip to butt and you can tell by feeling
of 1t whether it is well filled out or
not 1t should be thick and firm clear
to the end and round off quickly at
the tip and where the husk rounds
down snugly at the tip. Be sure that
the ear has weight enough to pull 1t
down. Corn grown from such grain
will mature quicker and grow harder
Mr.. Hanna showed samples of oats
that had been developed by careful
selection until a crop was grown with
heavy heads of we'll filled grain OF
greatly increased yield He showed
wheat sheafs from a field that pro-
duced over 20 bushels per acre that
was developed from wheat that had
produced only 6S bushels a year be-
fore. Any farmer can do this, said Mr.
Hanna.
Speaking of the purebred hog, MIR
Hanna said that he felt like Grimm
al lawyer who had been called upon tC
defend an innocent man. He said that
thousands of hogs have left the state
of Idaho the last few months with only
a part of their board bills paid but il
was not his fault. Mr. Hanna took a
rap at the packers and said that if the
hog products of the west had been put
on the market at fair prices there
might have been a better outlet fol
western hogs. He had ascertaincd thai
there are over 200 cars Of packing
house products brought into the Boise
| valley from the east each year anc
about 1000 cars into Idaho, payinl
heavy freight rates, and at the tim,
when Idaho hogs were the lowest, coas
markets were from 81 to $3.50 lower
than the Chicago market. "Purebrec
grain raised to feed purebred hogs viii
still make a profit ne said, ever
under unfavorable circumstances, anC
the grain viii net more if marketed
through hog than if sold through al
elevator. Because hogs are low this Il
no time to raise mongrel hogs-the re
verse is true. Bad markets are partl,
caused by poor breeding and poor fin
s.l,sr oh, ..1 h9,u
from three weeks old and make then
weigh 200 to 225 pounds at six month";
old feed for compactness. Nothing
will produce more pork than peas ant
the hog will harvest them himself.
Pumpkins are also a good feed and viii
keep the hogs free from worms wer
other assertions of Mr.. Hanna's, end
ing with the declaration that the ho
has made good and should be dis
missed without prejudice.
A. l.. Wilson led the discussion o
Mr.. Hanna's subject and told Of no,
he had started breeding purebre
grain by paying $40 for few ears O
prize corns with the result that hi
corn yield was materially increased
Improved oat seed had increased hi
yield from 40 bushels to 76 bushels pc
acre, he said. He thought that type j
selecting seed or hogs is more import
ant than the breed; the most improve
individuals should be kept to reproduc
themselves His experience with hog
was that April grade pigs had weighe
1873 pounds In February while pure
breds had weighed 207 pounds in tn
same time and under the same condi
tons the purebreds bringing the bes
prices.
Quality in all Things
]. S. Stinson. of Nampa, was the frs
speaker of the afternoon, discussin
quality in all things connected with tn
farm life. He said that improved see
had increased the WELD of oats 10 I
20 bushels per acre in Ohio last yea
and that improved dairy stock had en-
abled him to produce butterfat at IL
cents ner mound from a LarseW coz