The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-08


Hancock county farm bureau. makes
his summary Of seed corn tests
which shows:
termination tests made from SEED
corn from forty different farms. these
tests including ffty-six lots OF corn
which would be roughly divided INTO
seven classes as follows:
Glass Corn picked before frost
and stored where it did not freeze
Eight lots gave an average germlna-
ton of 81 percent.
Glass 2-Picked early and stored
in outbuildings. Six lots gave an
average termination of IS percent.
Glass 3-Picked before zero
weather and hung on racks. Ten lots
gave an average termination or ~
percent.
Glass Crib corn, twenty-one lots
gave an average termination OF 90
percent.
Glass 5-Shock corn. Five lots gave
an average termination OF 6S per-
cent
Class 6-Early varieties. Four lots
gave an average termination OF 81
percent.
4 Glass ~7-Old corn. Two lots gave
an average termination of 81 per-
cent
/ From these tests it would seem
that the only reasonably good seed
corn that we have is the early
picked, early varieties and old corn
The best crib corn that was tested
gave IS percent termination. TINS
test was on a comparatively small
number of ears, which had been
carefully picked.
Lee Siegfried of Ferris, brought in
three lots of corn which gave very
interesting results in the termination
test. The first lot was picked early
and hung in the garage and tested
100 percent; the second lot was
picked at early husking time and
hung in the same place and gave 70
percent, while the third lot taken
from the crib gave 55 percent, with
none of the ears showing perfect
termination. This test certainly
shows very clearly the value of early
picked seed.
The six lots of early picked seed
which were hung in outbuildings,
varied greatly in their terminating
power. Some were not in much pet
ter condition than the crib corn and
indicated that they had been badly
frozen during the cold spell early in
October.
The individual ear test is the only
sure way of finding out the value OF
this seed corn. Every farmer ought
to be testing his seed now and more
especially if he is figuring on using
corn from the crib 1t will require a
lot of picking over and testing to get
good seed there.
The following men have been clas-
sified by the Hancock county exemp-
ton board:
Glass 1894, Virgil G. Miller, War
saw; 1856, Carl Tilton, Carthage; Sl3,
John NJ. Botkin, Bentley; 1875, John
B. Peyton, Warsaw; 2l55, Frank Lee,
Hamilton; 1855, Dallas Amerine, Pom
toosuc; 1897, Elmer Froman, War
saw; 1135, Benz. McCleary, Disco;
62s, Fred Habel, West Point; 2O32,
Ernest Vaughn, LaHarpe: 1O43, Wal
ter e. Bottom. Nauvoo; S94, Arthur
Harold Hayes, Carthage; 116O, James
IR. Egbers, Mallard; 2119, Clifford D.
iHertenstein, Nauvoo; 1872 William
Bonheur Dubois, Dallas City; S49,
Ralph E. Gimlock. Suffer; 1146, Wal
ter Stephens Handy, Plymouth;
223S, George Sawyer Hutson, N1ota:
I97s, Charley Clyde Hatfield, Stillwell;
III. Walter John Giller, Warsaw;
1888, Clinton J. Suffer, South Pekin;
I1799. John William billiard, Tennes-
see; 245, Harold G. Hart. Nauvoo;
7e9, Elbrige Lionel Lynn, Dallas City;
2179, Lloyd Holien Brill, LaHarpe;
1887, Virgil G.. Nicaise, Nauvoo; 22O6,
Bayne Franklin Rings, Colchester;
1885, WILDER Marcel Leroy, Hamilton;
l2lS6, John Hugh Brown, Ferris; 1890,
Henry Zoble, Warsaw; 2O41, George
Albert Mead, Dallas City; 1909, Al
fred James Isenberg, Niota; PISA,
Jesse Rollin Bennett, Plymouth;
2125, James H. Banks, Warsaw; 1441
Albert Dickinson Markillie, Basco;
1899. Robert r. Reimbold, Colchester;
217s, Ernest Alva Hamrick, Hamil-
ton; 1928, George Charles Sugars,
Niota: 2O56, Charles William Greenig,
LaHarpe; IS, Lloyd ]. Choate, Ham
ilton: 1191, Herman Morgenthaler,
warsaw; 500, Floyd Emery Booz,
Basco; 1868, Roscoe H. Hutson.
Powellton; 720, Joseph B. Nelson,
Nauvoo; 7S4, Clyde Oliver Lamb,
Pontoosuc; s52, William Lawrence
Swain, Carthage; 2225, George Burns
Chaplin, Hamilton; 904. John R. Moi
fit, Nauvoo; TO, Walter Marvin st.
Clair, Disco; 652, John Ruffcorn. West
Point; 1880, Henry B. Stackman.
Basco; 1902, John W. Harrison,
Basco; 1918, Vernon Butler. Colusa;
1853, Henry Fecht, Carthage; Isl,
Henry G. Johnson, Carthage; TAB,
George p Browning, Augusta; 1868,
Richard Henry Hambly, Plymouth;
2O69, Albert Henry Staff, Mendon;
ESQ. Chester Ross Rombaugh, Suffer-;
744, Ben F. Loudin. LaHarpe; 1896,
Homer Haibert Cravens, Plymouth;
1854, James James, Pontoosuc; 104S,
Carl William Pfeiferling, Warsaw;
1922, Harley Seigfreid, Ferris; 696,
GUY E. Saunders, Ferris; 500, George
Bergmeier, Nauvoo; 1879, Edward
Arrow Walker, Suffer; GIL, Henry
Carl Burger, Warsaw; 573, Roy John
Eichman. Denver; 1878, Lawrence
G. Burlington, Mallard; As, Floyd Ed
ward Dawson, Carthage.
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