150 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING 



work is only begun; we must reach out further 

 and secure those conditions of good soil, good 

 tillage and careful cultivation that give the seed 

 the chance to live, grow and reproduce. 



This truth was "driven home" to the author 

 in a most emphatic manner the past season. He 

 secured some of the best Seed's Yellow Dent Seed 

 Corn that could be found in Indiana, getting the 

 seed on the ear, and paying a fancy price for it. 

 Every ear was almost perfect and was carefully 

 tested. One bushel of this seed was planted as 

 an experiment upon a plot of soil, every part of 

 which was of the same character of soil, but part 

 of it was worn and to this no fertilizing matter 

 had been given. The remainder of the plot had 

 been fertilized with green manuring crops un- 

 til it was in a most fertile stage. The entire plot 

 was plowed the same depth and given the same 

 tillage and put in the best possible condition for 

 the planting of the seed. The corn was planted 

 with the same planter and to the same depth. 

 Cultivation afterwards was the same upon all 

 parts of the plot. When the corn was harvested 

 that upon the worn soil was inferior and of the 

 stunted growth. The seed had not reproduced in 

 kind. The corn upon the good ground produced 

 the hundredfold crop of fine perfect corn ; the seed 

 had here reproduced its kind and the truth was 

 emphasized that seed will only reproduce its kind 

 when conditions for growth are favorable, and 

 that success in producing the manufactured prod- 

 ucts of the farm depends upon a good combination 

 of all the elements that enter into the business. 

 In seed selection these rules should obtain: 



