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iiig and to furnish the entire seed corn for the community. 

 Corn thus pro<;lueed will he worth considerable more than 

 that which is purchased in llic general market, raised in some 

 distant section of the country, no one knows where, and which 

 may not be adapted to the special local needs of the com- 

 munity where it is to be used as seed. 



At the present time a larger part of the corn which is 

 grown in New England is grown from seed which is pur- 

 chased at the local seed store, possibly a local hardware or 

 grocery store, without any special reference to corn breeding 

 or selection. Even with this rather haphazard way of buy- 

 ing seed corn there is an opportunity for the exercise of dis- 

 cretion and skill in the purchasing of seed. One should first 

 determine what type of corn will most fully meet the require- 

 ments. The mistake which is most usually made is in the 

 selection of the type of corn, simply because it is a large 

 growing variety. This is especially true in this section, 

 where corn is grown almost entirely for the purpose of en- 

 silage. In selecting corn which is to be grown for the silo, 

 it is well to select one of the largest growing varieties which 

 will come to full maturity, or which will at least approach 

 maturity, in the usual season of the locality where it is grown. 

 This would mean for southern New England the selection of 

 such varieties of dent corn as Leaming, Pride of the North 

 and Early Mastodon, and for northern New England the 

 growth of such varieties as Pride of the North and possilily 

 Leaming or Longfellow. It is only in rare and individual 

 cases that it is wise to grow in New England such varieties 

 as Eureka, Cuban Giant and other large growing varieties 

 which will come nowhere near maturity in our usual season, 

 and yet there are cases where it may be wise to select the 

 largest growing type of corn which can be secured. If one 

 has but 5 or 6 acres on which to grow corn, and a 200-ton 

 silo which must be filled, then the largest growing variety of 

 corn should be planted, without regard to whether it comes 

 to maturity or not. The ]iurpose here, of course, is to secure 

 the largest amount of roughage and succulent food which can 

 be grown to the acre. But on most farms it is wiser to grow 



