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test it. We test every ear we plant ourselves, but we don't test all of 

 the seed corn wc send out. We test the corn in composite samples 

 from each and every lot that is brought into the seed house. 



Corn deteriorates very rapidly when shelled, and we have had some 

 very sad experiences in shelling corn too early. It absorbs moisture 

 more readily shelled, and if very cold weather follows, the germination 

 is very low. 



Mr. Wing: While on the subject of corn and the good it does to 

 kiln-dry it, I will say that my average yield of natural dried corn was 

 25 to 40 bushels per acre. Well, I kiln-dried it last winter, hung it up 

 in the barn and it got very dry (that is why I asked if it could get too 

 dry). I grew alfalfa on my corn land for four years and spread manure 

 on it and plowed it up and planted kiln-dried corn, and had 100 bushels 

 to the acre on some of it, and an average of 75 bushels over the whole 

 field. So it seems that kiln-drying made an increase of about 40 

 bushels to the acre. Now, something else about corn. I have been 

 wondering whether you are right about growing only one ear on the 

 stalk, because down in South Carolina they grow four to nine ears on the 

 stalk. You need not laugh at that; because the actual yield on one 

 measured acre of land was 240 bushels — ^10 bushels to the shock. I 

 knew the man who planted it and there can be no doubt about it. 



RESOLUTIONS 



Adopted at the Third Annual Meeting of the Missouri State Corn 



Growers' Association. 



I. Resolved, That it is the desire of this Association to extend to 

 the citizens of Columbia a vote of thanks for their cordial welcome and 

 for the hospitality extended to us. 



II. Resolved, That we express our hearty appreciation of the aid 

 which the Legislature has given the corn growers of the State, through 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station and State Board of Agriculture, 

 and we respectfully ask that these appropriations be continued. We also 

 wish to commend most heartily the untiring efiforts of the members of 

 the State Board of Agriculture and the faculty of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege in bringing the farmers of the State to realize the necessity for 

 improving the corn crop, pledging at the same time our earnest co- 

 operation in this work in any way possible. 



III. Resolved, That in as much as the farming conditions are so 

 different in various parts of the State, we respectfully ask the Experi- 



