94 MISSOURI AflRICUI.TURAI. REPORT. 



Mr. Wing" : Do you think there is such a thing as getting it too 

 dr)' ? 



Mr. Funk: 1 think you can apply too much heat, but you can't 

 get your corn too dry. You know No. 2 corn is dry corn, and the per 

 cent of moisture in No. 2 corn is from 12 to 14 per cent. Now, when 

 we analyze our sample of corn, we always take the moisture test. Of 

 course, that which has been dried merely by hang-ing up on racks, the 

 moisture content will run as low as 5 to 10 per cent, or below what 

 they would call dry corn on the market. 



Mr. Funk: I wish some of you would tell me how you dry your 

 corn here. 



Mr. : We, in Missouri, have always thought the open 



crib did pretty well, but if kiln-drying adds so much to the yield, why 

 we would prefer that plan. 



Mr. Funk : I did not say that it would. 



Mr. : Do you believe it? 



Mr. Funk: We should believe everything that Washington says, 

 of course, but we may have our doubts just the same. I think Mr. 

 Hartley is undoubtedly sincere in his statement, and I think that has been 

 his result, but I think he should continue the experiment longer. 



Mr. : Have you ever tried to carry corn over from one 



year to another ; does that damage the vatility, 



Mr. Funk : Yes. The germination is lower ; and in two-year-old 

 corn it is still worse. We have tried five-year old corn, and the germi- 

 nation is about 6 or 10 per cent, starting with the g^ermination of 95 

 to 98 per cent. 



Mr. ■ : How had it been kept? 



Mr. Funk: In an unheated seed house; germination continued to 

 drop through the period of five years until it got to 6 per cent. 



Mr. : I knew a man who had some corn 17 years old 



that germinated. 



Mr. Funk: He must have had an awfull\- vigorous corn in the 

 first place. 



Mr. Sly: I would like to say that in 1904 I planted two bushels 

 of corn grown in 1901, and had a good stand; made 80 bushels to the 

 acre; it had just been kept in the barn in sacks. 



Mr. Funk : Of course, we all know that there are times when we 

 have to plant at least one-year old corn, and I think it is safe to do so 

 sometimes ; but I would not follow it as a practice ; I would try to plant 

 new corn, unless very much afraid of its germination. 



Mr. : Do you test every ear? 



^Tr. Funk : No, not with the germinator. But would certainly 



