TI-IE SEED-CORN SITUATION, 



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the cost price of good seed that makes this care necessary. Five dollars 

 a bushel is a good investment for acclimated and well-preserved seed 

 corn, but usuall}- at jilanting time such seed can not be purchased at 

 any price. Some few localities have conscientious, careful seed-corn 

 men. They arc of great value to their communities and fortunately 

 liicir number is increasing. 



The experiments conducted by the Office of Corn Investigations 

 in demonstrating the profits to be derived from the good preserva- 



FiG. 2.— Intorior view of the seed-corn dry house shown in figure 1. 



tion of seed corn have been put to practical, accurate, and extensive 

 tests. In figures 1 and 2 are shown exterior and interior views of a 

 seed-corn dry house constructed at a cost of $500. In 1910 this seed- 

 corn house returned to the farm $1,500 in profit, due to a 5-busliol 

 increas(>d acre yield on 740 acres planted with seed corn dried and 

 stored in it. These figures were o])tained as the result of 17 separate 

 tests, practically aU of wliich told the same story. The tests con- 

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