Soil culture and modern farm methods . ield would be 38 bushels per acre. If a ten-ounce ear was produced onevery hill, the yield would be 32 bushels per acre. Most of our cornlands are rich enough to produce three ears or just three times what isbeing produced. The main reason why the farmer throws away two- thirds of the producing abihty of his soil and two-thirds of his labor is be-cause of poor seed. The cheapest and most practical way of testing seed corn is as follows:A germinator is made from any box 25 inches or more wide, from 4 to 6inches high, and about 25 inches in length, for each
Soil culture and modern farm methods . ield would be 38 bushels per acre. If a ten-ounce ear was produced onevery hill, the yield would be 32 bushels per acre. Most of our cornlands are rich enough to produce three ears or just three times what isbeing produced. The main reason why the farmer throws away two- thirds of the producing abihty of his soil and two-thirds of his labor is be-cause of poor seed. The cheapest and most practical way of testing seed corn is as follows:A germinator is made from any box 25 inches or more wide, from 4 to 6inches high, and about 25 inches in length, for each bushel of corn to betested. This is filled with moist sawdust or sandy loam to within twoinches of the top. A piece of muslin is moistened, and with an indeliblepencil marked off in squares 2^ inches each way so that when the clothis laid on the sawdust or loam in the box, there shall be ten squares onthe cloth across the box. In a box 25 inches square there will be tenrows of squares and ten squares in each row. BOX FOR TESTING SEED. A Strong, Both Sprout and Rootlets C—Weak, Rootlets Only B—Weak, Sprout Only D~Dead Box for Testing Seed Before placing corn in the germinator, sterilize the sawdust andcloths by boiling or by the application of steam to destroy fungusspores. If you do not have sawdust, good garden loam will do. It isunnecessary to sterilize the loam if that is used. The ears of corn are laid in rows on a table, floor or board, and markedin tens, beginning with ear No. 1 at the end of the row. Take out sixkernels from different parts of the ear and place them in square No. 1at the upper left-hand corner of the box. Place the kernels from ear10 in square 10 at the adjacent corner from No. 1. Place No. 11 imme-diately below No. 1, etc. When six kernels from each ear have thusbeen placed in the box, cover with a piece of wet muslin larger than thebox, and place moist, but not saturated, sawdust or fine loam over allto the top of the box. The sawdust or loam shou
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