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so much to our seed dealers as to farmers and corn growers. They are 

 tlie people directly interested. 



Having determined the data above, it is not unreasonable to assert 

 that every corn grower ought to know beyond any perad venture, just 

 what kind of seed corn he pours into his planter boxes at planting time. 

 We do not mean to urge anything unreasonable, and we are not doing so. 

 If we were to test say 1,000 ears of seed corn from a seed house and 

 found them to grow perfectly, we would be ready to admit that the next 

 1,000 ears were reasonably safe for seed, providing they were the same 

 kind of ears, kept under the same conditions as the first 1,000 had been; 

 but we would not take too much for granted. 



The object toward which we are all striving, is that agriculture be 

 made an exact science. The testing of each car of seed corn, whenever 

 necessary, will certainly be a considerable stride in that "direction. 



CORN. 



PREPARING THE GROUND, PLANTING AND CULTIVATING THE CROP. 

 (Prof. P. G. Holden, in "Successful Farming.") 



There is no one best method suited to all sections, nor to the dif- 

 ferent' soils of a given section, nor even to the different fields of the same 

 farm. 



Frequently two very different methods may give equally good re- 

 sults. There are no "iron clad" rules which can be followed blindly in 

 the growing of corn any more than in any other farm work. Have good 

 ground, do the work on time and do it thoroughly, should be the object 

 of every corn grower. 



IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GROUND. 



Nothing can make up for poor ground. Too many are trying to 

 grow corn on old "worn out" ground that has produced corn and oats 

 fcr years. I met a man at an institute in Illinois who said in all seri- 

 ousness that he was satisfied that the seasons were less favorable for 

 growing corn than they used to be, as he could get no such crops as 

 he formerly raised. It developed that he had grown corn for 17 years 

 in succession on the same piece of ground. No wonder "the seasons 

 were becoming less favorable." 



Let us remember that it was only a few years ago that the land 

 of the Central West was broken from the virgin sod, and because we 



