FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 95 



Second: Carefully select 50 to 100 of the very choicest ears of your seed 

 corn and plant them on one side of your earliest planted field, and if possible 

 on fall plowed ground so that it will mature early next fall. 



Third: Do not fail to grade the corn and test the planter thoroughly 

 with the seed you intend to use and stay with it until it will drop regularly 

 the number of kernels required in each hill. 



Fourth: Do not import seed corn from a distance. Depend upon home 

 grown for the main crop. 



Fifth: it is very important that all corn intended for use should be 

 harvested not later than October 20th and hung up in a dry and thoroughly 

 ventilated place. 



Sixth: Select ears of corn for seed which have kernels of as nearly uni- 

 form size and shape as possible, otherwise it will be impossible to secure an 

 even stand with any planter. 



Seventh: That it is unwise to store seed corn in barrels or boxes, as it 

 will gather moisture, even though it appears to be thoroughly dry. This is 

 especially true during the fall and winter months. 



Eighth: That cold does not injure the vitality of corn when it is thor- 

 oughly dried and kept dry, but on the other hand, if allowed to gather 

 moisture, freezing will reduce the vitality and may destroy it entirely. 



Tenth: In case any seed corn is purchased from seedsmen, insist on 

 having it shipped to you in the ear, either in crates or barrels. 



Eleventh: All of this work, that is, the testing of the vitality, the sort- 

 ing, the shelling and the testing of the planter, should be done before plant- 

 ing time. If put off until the hurry of the spring work is upon us, there is 

 danger that it will not be done at all. 



