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ments have shown that crib corn produces smaller yields 
than corn that has been properly selected in the field and 
well preserved through the winter. 
“The quantity of seed corn selected from the field 
should always be considerably more than will be needed 
for planting, so that there may be room for further and 
more critical selection later on. If the quantity of seed 
ears selected before the general husking is insufficient, it 
is a good plan to have a small box attached to the out- 
side of the wagon box into which desirable seed ears 
found while husking can be put.” 
When you buy seed corn, get it on the ear and from 
a place in your same latitude, and an early variety. 
All seed corn should be tested before planting. The 
importance of this is seen when we consider that gen- 
erally farmers do not get more than an average of 75 
per cent. of a stand of corn, when the average should 
not be less than 95 per cent. After corn has once been 
planted it is generally too late to replant the entire field 
if the stand is poor, and I have never known replanted 
corn in missing hills to make anything more than fodder. 
The method of testing seed as given by the Purdue 
University Agricultural Experiment Station is as follows: 
“There are many simple methods of making the 
germination test, but in all cases each ear should be 
tested by itself. Experiments have shown that as a rule 
the testing of a few kernels picked at random from dif- 
ferent parts of the ear will safely determine whether or 
not the ear should be used for seed. About five kernels 
should be taken from each ear and kept separate, and the 
ear from which they came must be marked in such a way 
