6o MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Mr. Terrill : I have a room in the garret for my corn. I spread 

 it across that room in rows about eight inches apart, and have ventila- 

 tion from the window. 



Mr. Laughhn : I read the other day of a nice plan, where galvanized 

 wire netting was used arid put around the crib ; that made it mouse 

 proof and at the same time let the air through. 



Mr. Weeks: I do not think it makes much difference where you 

 put your seed corn, just so you have it thoroughly dry. It makes no 

 difference how cold it gets, if your corn is thoroughly dry when put 

 away — just so you have a room with a current of air passing through it. 



Mr. Johnson : I have a small seed house where I store my seed 

 corn for myself and that which I send out to those who want to buy. I 

 have a door hung on hinges that I can open up when I want to and shut 

 when I want it shut. I have a galvanized wire netting, such as J\lr. 

 Laughlin spoke of, to keep the rats and mice away. 



Dr. Waters : I would like to ask some of these corn breeders what 

 their experience has been with kiln-dried seed corn? 



Prof. Miller : I have been in touch with a great many corn breeders 

 recently and find that nine out of ten do not kiln-dry. They don't seem 

 to know exactly how to do it. You simply keep a stove in the room and 

 keep the air warm. Up in Iowa, in the Agricultural College, I noticed 

 they had an electric fan in the room ; but, of course, that would not be 

 practicable for the ordinary farmer. 



Mr. Hervy : I think you are getting right down to a practical 

 proposition now when you speak of kiln-drying. You will find that all 

 the leading seed corn breeders practice that method. If you have a fur- 

 nace you can kiln-dry by the furnace, but if not, use a stove. If you 

 havn't a room, then use the kitchen. Get your corn thoroughly dried 

 out before freezing season, and then keep it above freezing temperature. 



Mr. Leffler : Most of you are practical farmers. Now, if there is 

 a way that we can dry this corn, just by ordinary means, by gathering 

 it early and putting it in the barn, or something like that, we would 

 rather get along without this kiln-drying. I have a frame for my seed 

 corn that I hang up in the top of my barn, that is floored. It is sus- 

 pended so that the rats cannot get to it. I have no trouble about the 

 corn germinating. 



Mr. Weeks: I tested several samples last year of corn that T 

 gathered early and placed in a large room in the barn, and took no 

 precautions but to see that there was a good roof on the building, and 

 that the windows were tight ; and I kept a window open part of the time 

 so as to have a current of air through the building, and every sample I 



