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right ? It is all right wthen you want to sell it, but not for your 

 own seed. Why mot ? Here is a reason. I have taken the same 

 t}pe of stalk grown on a part of the field where the soil is 

 poor, and the same kind of a stalk grown on a part of the field 

 where the soil is ridher. Do you know that the stalk whidh pro- 

 duced a large ear under adverse conditions has a stronger 

 character than the stalk whidi produceid a large ear under fav- 

 orable conditions. The man who is good in bad company is the 

 right kind of a fellow. THiat is why I select stalks of corn 

 which have produced ears of good corn under adverse condi- 

 tions ; I do not select it from the poorest, because the conditions 

 might be too adverse. When I plant that kind of corn in good 

 soil, T always get better yields and a more highly developed 

 kind of corn, so far as feeding value is concerned. I believe 

 what is true in Southeastern Pennsylvania is also true in 

 Maine. 



We have a Boys' Corn Growing Club in York county, Penn- 

 sylvania. This fall we had a meeting and hiad the boys of the 

 club make reports on how much shelled corn per acre they 

 raised, and the boy w^ho raised the largest amount had 133 

 bushels. I had the honor, not long ago, to go to Chester county, 

 Pennsylvania, and to present to Frank Rimel the award that 

 was given him by the International Corn Growers' Association 

 at San Francisco. There are two boys in the State of Missis- 

 sippi — and I have the documents with me to shoiw you — wtio 

 are represented at tlirat Corn Growers' Convention at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco who raised 239 

 bushels of shelled corn to the acre in one year. Wbether 

 they raised two crops — they can do it down there — two crops in 

 one year — I do not know. We have done something along 

 these lines in Southeastern Pennsyilvania ; we have developed 

 the ear that I am talking about, and the boys who are working 

 under these instructions in our corn growers' club have worked 

 along this line. 



One time I spoke to an audience of Pennsylvania Dutch, in 

 Lancaster county, the same tribe to which I belong, and I han- 

 dled an ear of corn I had raised, which I said would shell twen- 

 ty ounces of corn, and a young fanner sitting up pretty close 

 front, said, "I think I can beat you," and I said, "Bring your 

 ear." In the afternoon he came and we ea^ch had an ear and 



