TESTING SEED CORN 65 



Carefully remove 5 or 6 grains from each ear of corn, 

 place them in the numbered squares corresponding to the 

 numbers on the ears, and cover with a flour sack padded 

 with about 2 in. of moist sand or sawdust. Place the box in 



TESTING SEED CORN FOR TEN ACRES 



a warm place where it will not get chilled. Keep the pad 

 well dampened and warm, and in five or six days remove 

 the pads carefully. Select for seed those ears whose grains 

 have both sprouts and rootlets. 



EXERCISE 



1. When corn is selling at 750 a bushel, what is a farmer's 

 loss by planting one bad ear of seed corn ? 



2. When corn is selling at 600 a bushel, what is the 

 loss to a neighborhood by planting 50 bad ears of seed 

 corn ? 



3. A farmer, by planting only tested corn, may depend 

 upon an increase of 5 bu. per acre. If your father did not 

 test his seed last spring, estimate his loss at the present 

 price of corn. 



