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Testing Seed 



IN THE great corn belt of the Central West, the 

 subject of seed corn is of much importance. 

 The time to select the seed is when the crop 

 is beginning to ripen. Gather the healthiest, 

 strongest stalks with largest ears, straight rowed, 

 grains uniform in size and filled out plump at each 

 end of the ear. The largest-grained ears are to 

 be preferred but an ear is not to be condemned 

 because the grains are slightly smaller if the ear 

 has all the other qualifications above mentioned. 

 Choose only from the earliest stalks. This cannot 

 be so well done after the corn is in the shock, and 

 not at all after husked. These large early stalks 

 show a stronger constitution and a greater vitality. 



The second step is the drying and the keeping. 

 Since we have it gathered early, there is plenty 

 of time to cure. Do not dry over the cook stove, 

 or too suddenly in any manner. Keep the seed 

 in a place free from moisture and draughts and in 

 as even a temperature as possible. Seed thus kept 

 retains all its vitality and germinating power. 



Now, take a board eight or nine inches wide 

 and lay it flat and level at a convenient height. 

 Drive a nail in one end of the board. Begin to 

 place a row of ears on the board and tight against 

 the nail until the board is filled to the other end. 

 But it is best to put a nail along every twelve or 

 fifteen ears for the purpose of holding each ear 

 firmly in place, and number each ear. 



Next take a box two feet wide and three feet 

 long made of inch boards, because thinner boards 

 might permit drying. Have the box from seven 

 to eight inches in depth. Moisten some good saw- 

 dust (each person must use his own judgment not 

 to get it too wet or too dry) and cover the bottom 

 of the box one and one half inches deep. Over 

 this sawdust put a cloth that will freely admit 

 of air and moisture, but do not use old sacks unless 

 they are very thoroughly cleaned. 



Now imagine that this cloth is marked out in 

 four-inch squares. We take ear No. i and extract 

 one grain from near the butt of the ear. Turn a 

 row or two over and nearer the middle of the ear 

 extract another grain, and so on until the point 

 of the ear is reached. In all, it is best to pick out 

 six or eight grains from different places on the same 

 ear. Be very careful to replace the ear on the 

 board in its original number. Place these six or 

 eight grains on check No. i on the cloth just as if 

 planting them in hills in the corn-ground after 

 marked out for planting. The grains from ear 

 No. 2 are put on check No. 2, and so on. When, 

 however, the checks on the first cloth are all 

 filled, cover these grains with another cloth. Put 

 in another layer of sawdust and another cloth. 

 The purpose of using cloths is to hold the grains 

 apart so that one may at any time tell just which 

 grains came from ear No. 9 or 57. 



When all this is done place the box in a good 

 warm growing place of even temperature, and in 

 from seven to nine days the grains will be suffic- 

 iently sprouted. No water need be applied, for 

 the sawdust will remain sufficiently moist. 



Now, remove the cloth carefully. Say that the 

 first hill of six grains came from ear 274. We 

 find every grain sprouted — and showing a strong 

 vitality. Let them remain in their original places 

 on the board. The next grains are from ear 273. 

 We have three or four strong sprouts and two or 

 three weak ones, yet each grain is growing. 



No. 273 shows weakness; it is very likely the 

 one that will produce stalks without ears on them. 

 Do not take it off the board because that would 

 leave the others loose and cause a mix-up, but 

 just shove it part way across the board so that it 

 may be distinguished. The third square may 

 show several grains that refuse to grow. Pull 

 the ear the other way, or one may use wooden pins 

 of different kinds pressed into the butt of the ear 

 in order to render the same classification. Thus, 

 after each ear has been examined, they may be 

 removed from the board and divided into the 

 classes to which they belong. 



Lastly shell each ear in a pan by itself. If the 

 grains show up when shelled to be large, put them 

 in a measure by themselves. If the next ear has 

 smaller grains, put them by themselves and so on. 

 And if a planting machine is used, one needs only 

 to change the plates to correspond to the size of 

 these grains. T. W. Taylor. 



