98 



CORN 



which was being sold to farmer customers. The corn from the "farm- 

 ers" was secured directly from the planter box or sack in the field the 

 day that the farmer was planting. 



TABLE NO. 19 

 *HOME GROWN VS. IMPORTED SEED. (Summary of eight years test in Iowa) 



Farmers 5072 samples 



Outside breeders ; 603 samples 



Dealers 543 samples 



Average yield of all Farmer's samples 56 bu. per acre 



Average yield of Outside Breeders' seed 53 bu. per acre 



Average yield of Dealers' seed 42 bu. per acre 



One-tenth best Farmer's (507 samples) 67 bu. per acre 



One-tenth poorest farmer's (507 samples) 42 bu. per acre 



The home grown seed did the best in every way, even taking an 

 average of all home grown seed, good and bad alike, and comparing 

 the results with the imported seed. Taking the best one-tenth of the 

 home grown seed, however, the average yield was 67 bushels per acre 

 as compared with 53 bushels per acre from the seed secured from 

 outside breeders and 42 bushels per acre from seed secured from seed 

 corn dealers. 



At the Nebraska Station six leading varieties of corn were com- 

 pared for two and three years, the seed in one case being native grown 

 and in the other from Iowa or Illinois. 



Table showing yield of corn from acclimated seed and from seed 

 from other regions, at the Nebraska Experiment Station. 



TABLE NO. 20 

 **ACCLIMATED SEED VS. IMPORTED SEED. (Nebraska Experiment Station) 



Name and place of origin 



1903 

 Bush. 



1904 

 Bush. 



1905 

 Bush. 



Average 

 Bush. 



Diff. 

 Bush. 



Silver Mine (Neb.) 



Illinois 



Leaming (Nebraska) 



Illinois 



Snowflake White (Neb.) — 



Iowa 



Boone Co. White (Neb.)__. 



Illinois 



Early Yellow Rose (Neb.)_. 



Iowa 



Reid's Yellow Dent (Neb.)_ 



Illinois 



Average 



73.7 

 68.7 



68.1 

 62.1 



70.0 

 65.1 

 95.2 

 76.6 

 84.8 

 72.8 

 76.2 

 68.9 

 67.9 

 76.9 

 83.8 

 82.8 



76.1 

 63.4 

 69.8 

 72.3 

 74.5 

 67.1 



75.1 

 63.5 

 64.2 

 60.8 



73.0 

 64.2 

 82.2 

 74.4 

 77.7 

 69.5 

 76.2 

 68.9 

 70.3 

 67.5 

 73.7 

 71.8 



8.1 



8.2 



7.3 



2.8 



1.9 

 6.2 



In every case in the above tests the native seed of the same variety 

 as the imported seed gave the better yield, the average difference being 

 6.2 bushels per acre in favor of home grown seed. 



* County Demonstration Station Reports, Iowa. 

 **Nebraska Bulletin No. 12(5. 



