6 AGRICULTURE 







3. Good Seed 



The first thing necessary to a profitable crop of corn is 

 good seed. Poor seed means a poor stand of corn and 

 many barren stalks. And it requires just as much time 

 and labor and rental for a field of corn that has a quarter 



A sample of corn showing good tip ends. 



or a third of the hills missing or without ears as for the 

 same field with a perfect or one hundred per cent, stand. 



Loss from poor seed. Let us see what a poor stand 

 means in waste. Corn planted 3J feet in the row each 

 way has 3,556 hills to the acre. One 10-ounce ear to the 

 hill will therefore yield nearly 32 bushels to the acre (fig- 



