Farmers' Week in Agricultural College. 



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gain since it costs no more to grow an acre of good variety in the place 

 of a poor variety. Sometimes it even costs less, since they are usually 

 more vigorous and keep down the weeds better. The question which 

 at once arises is where and how shall we secure the best varieties. In 

 the first place, the varieties that do well in one locality are not always 

 varieties that do best in another. For example, Hogue's Yellow Dent 

 has given good results at the Experiment Station farm, but north of the 

 Platte river Reid's Yellow Dent seems to be much the better corn; also 

 in the western part of the State there are some varieties that seem to do 

 better than either of these. The best varieties for every section of the 

 State must be carefully worked out by comparative tests. Also, there 

 are even several strains of the same variety. For example, the strain 

 of Silver Mine, referred to in the above chart has not given very good 

 yields, and yet other strains of Silver Mine have been found to give 

 good results. 



The importance of having seed thoroughly adapted to our climate 

 and soil conditions cannot be too strongly urged in Nebraska, especially 

 is this true in Central and Western Nebraska. Here we have a soil 

 usually light, and even more or less sandy, a medium to light rainfall 

 and dry temperature. In fact, conditions are so different in many re- 

 spects that it has been found to take two or three years for corn brought 

 from regions only a few hundred miles east to become thoroughly adapt- 

 ed. For a number of years we have been growing corn obtained from 

 various places in other states and this State to test the value of 

 acclimatization. In many cases we have had the seed of the same 

 variety coming from two different sources planted side by side. The 

 result of such tests for three years is shown by the following table : 



Name and place of origin. 



190.3. 



1904. 



1905. 



Avg. 



Differ- 

 ence. 



Learning, f Nebraska 



\ Illinois 



Silver Mine /Nebraska 



\ Illinois 



Snowflake White f Nebraska 



\lllinois 



Boone Co. White jNebraska 



\llLinois 



Ried's Yellow Dent fNebraska 



\lUinois 



Early Yellow Rose /Nebraska 



\lllinois 



Neb. White Prize, Saline county .... 

 Neb. White Prize, Washington county 



Silver Mine, Saline county 



Silver Mine, Washington county 



Iowa Mine, Buffalo county 



Iowa Gold Mine, Washington county 



9.3 



8.8 

 8.2 

 7.3 

 3.4 

 2.81 

 3.7 

 9.6 

 13.9 



