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112 THE 
GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Marcu, 1908 
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ears than the seed. Another year I planted 
Early Canada with the same results. A 
neighbor who had as fine corn as I ever saw 
told me that when he first bought the seed 
from a farmer on the mountain, the ears were 
considerably shorter than at the time I saw 
them and the stalks much shorter. This, 
with my own experience, convinced me that 
I could take a good strong variety of northern 
grown seed and by careful selection, bring 
it up to a size as large as the climate would 
permit me to grow. My experience since 
has confirmed this belief. Taking a large 
variety and trying to reduce it to my con- 
ditions has not been a success. 
Of course I knew that where the weeds 
were large the corn would be small. This 
much of the need of cultivation I saw, but 
to appreciate at its full value the great 
benefit of an earth mulch produced by 
frequent cultivation, and to understand the 
advice of the farmer to get the crop in early 
required the rather costly experience of a 
somewhat unusual season. 
There was rain enough in the spring, and 
then came eight weeks with no rain heavy 
enough to reach corn planted at a proper 
depth. My neighbor over the fence had put 
his corn in while the soil was moist enough 
to make it sprout, and then he began to use 
a weeder, a tool rather new here then, and 
how that corn did grow! He began when 
the corn had hardly started and at least 
twice each week went through it, keeping 
the surface soil fine and mellow, and without 
weeds and holding the moisture where the 
roots of the small plants could reach and 
use it. When I looked at the fields of the 
other neighbors whose crops were planted 
equally early but were now standing still as 
they did not dare to put a large cultivator 
among the small plants, I did not need any 
agent to urge me to get a weeder. When 
I saw my own seed, late planted, lie un- 
sprouted in the ground for five weeks, I 
needed no one to urge me to get my seed 
in early. My neighbor had about the only 
full crop in our valley that year. The next 
year I too had a weeder and saw my corn 
early planted, grow, faster it seemed, than 
I had ever known corn to grow before, and 
at harvest had the satisfaction that comes 
from labor rewarded by a large crop of 
splendid quality. And earliness of planting 
and frequency of cultivation were the only 
differences in conditions that had given a 
better crop. Gwe 
I HAVE often read in the agricultural 
papers that the proper way to gather 
seed corn is to go through the field and select 
large ears from large vigorous stalks. This 
is well enough if you care for grain only 
and do not wish to have your fodder in the 
best condition for the cows. Pick ears from 
corn green enough to be the best fodder for 
dairy cows, and when the ears are dry, the 
kernels will be shrunken and wide apart on 
the cob and lack vitality. Leave those same 
ears on the stalk and let them cure in the 
shock and the corn will be close set on the 
cob, plump and of good vitality. Of course, 
you will not pack the bundles in great masses 
Saving Seed Corn 
