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any farm near. I would not inoculate, l>ut as soon as one pig 

 gets off his Icii. ha\ c some one come and hv.ik the l>unch over, 

 and inoculate all rd^nvc forty pounds with double treatment, 

 and all under tortx- pounds with the single treatment. 



\()U can he of just as much service hy raising hogs as in 

 :in\- other department of action in the present conflict, as in 

 develoi)ing this industry wc arc not only carrying on a bu-^i- 

 ness which has a certain degree of profit for ourselves, but 

 renderin"' a ser\ ice which results in a direct food benefit on 

 a very large scale. 



Afternoon Session. 



FACTORS IXFLUENCIXG THE YIELD OF CORX. 



By Prof. U. G. South wick. Extension Agronomist of the C«)n- 

 necticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 



Professor C. G. Williams, Chief of the Department C)f 

 Agronomy at the Ohio Agricultural College was to have de- 

 livered an address on this subject, but he has been delayed . 

 by a snowstorm near Pittsburg, Pa. 



Let me point out that these exhibits include the Xew Lon- 

 don County Corn show and the State Board of Agriculture 

 Corn and Potato Contest. In this hall are featured fifty ear 

 ■exhibits with a germination test of each ear. The germina- 

 tion test, if properly conducted, is as reliable a measure of 

 the value of corn as we can get at a corn show. These tests 

 also have an educational value and this demonstration is 

 made for that purpose. The educational value which a corn 

 show provides as well as the exhibit value is hard to estimate. 

 Any one who wants to take home a lesson should carefully 

 examine the exhibits, especially those with germination tests. 



The potatoes and corn exhibited in the State contest rep- 

 resent the quality of potatoes and the corn in Connecticut, 

 but not the magnitude. There should be three times as much 

 corn exhil)ited next year, if not ten times as much. The 

 more corn exhibited the more glory an exhibitor has in 

 Avinning, 



The Agricultural Experiment Station and College exhibits 

 are self-explanatory. The corn breeding work carried on at 

 the Xew Haven Experiment Station is of particular interest 



