FUR BETTER CROPS 



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work; that no loss can possibly come to any one from i)ro|)erly 

 testing, harvesting, grading, and improving his seed. 



It is difficult for us to comprehend the enormous wealth 

 which would be added to the United States if these four orders 

 were carried out by every farmer; and let me again add that 



A Champion ear of corn 



they can be carried out by every one and at practically no 

 increased expense. 



To Illustrate : 1 presume that there is hardly a person in 

 low^a but will agree with me that if every ear of seed corn 

 had been tested this spring before planting and the weak and 

 bad ears discarded so that nothing but strong seed was planted, 

 it would have added on the average not less than 10 bushels per 

 acre to the crop. In one average county of Iowa with 90,0(X) 

 acres planted to corn annually, there would be an increase of 



Plate No. 1 



From each of the remaining ears remove 2 or 3 kernels. Examine 

 these kernels and discard those ears -which have poor kernels and 

 thus save the ■w'ork of testing ears M^hich sho-»v from appearance that 

 they are not fit to plant. 



900,000 bushels worth $450,000. And there are 99 counties, each 

 growing an average of 90,000 acres of corn. 



It is true that the seed this year was much worse tlian usual 

 owing to the sappy condition of the corn last fall, the early 

 freezes, and the unusually severe w^inter weather: but I am per- 

 fectly safe in saying that the annual average yield for Iowa could 



