52 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
Some years ago I collected sampies of seed 
corn from 16 counties in Tennessee, and tested 
their germination quality. The vitality of the 
seed was strong. Nearly all of this seed was 
erown by men who took pains to keep it in 
dry, well-ventilated places. There was no es- 
sential difference in germination between ears 
stored with and without the husk. 
In an article on “Seed corn” * Josiah Russell 
of lowasays: “Ifthe corn is not absolutely dry 
when gathered we put the ears for seed in a 
plastered upper chamber of the house through 
which a stovepipe goes to the chimney, or we 
make use of the smoke house. In either case 
the corn is laid in tiers on Jath nailed to 2x4 
uprights, one row of corn to each lath, or rather 
a lath at each end of the corn rows. * * * 
It takes two laths to hold one row of ears 
side by side. * The smoke-house plan 
we like best of all, and think the smoke we put 
in at times during the winter renders the corn 
objectionable to the ground squirrels in the 
spring.” 
The relative value of butt, center and tip 
kernels does not materially differ. As a rule 
farmers select the central kernels on the ears, 
rejecting the small or irregular tip and butt ker- 
nels, At the New York experiment station the | 
writer assisted in conducting elaborate experi- 
* Rural New Yorker, Aug. 25, 1888, 
