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Some Suggestions Regarding Corn 



Developing Seed Corn of High Grade. 



All honor to the person who most snc- 

 cessfnllv exhibits the riches of Mother 



MR. AREA BRUTUS. 



Nature. She will give lavishly of her 

 good things if one knows how to entreat 

 her. 



In the last few years many workers 

 have accomplished wonders in the cul- 

 tivation of Lidian Corn. A type of these 

 successful investigators is Mr. Arba 

 Brutus, Pine Village, Indiana, who writes 

 to The Guide to Nature as follow^ : 



"Corn is kinig in Indiana. It is one of 

 the best paying crops in the central 

 states, excepting on some of the poorer 

 land. In Indiana and Illinois failure of 

 the corn crop is scarcely known. 



"If a person can increase the weight 

 of each ear of corn by one ounce the 

 yield will be increased by ten bushels per 

 acre. This and more can be done by 

 the careful breeding of corn. In show 

 corn we strive to establish type. When 

 corn has this, it has the ability to repro- 

 duce itself uniformly." 



We shall be pleased to hear from other 



IN the drying room. 



