. Review of reviews and world's work. DISTRIBUTING LITEKATlIiE TO THE FARMERS AS THEY ARE LEAVING THE TRAIN 566 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF FAKMKKS GROUPED AT A RAILROAD STATION. vitally to the interest closest to their daily , no good photographs of the il-lustrative material were secured. There werecharts showing the stand of corn in one thou-sand fields of Iowa for 1903, bringing out thefact that the average stand in the State wasonly 66 per cent, of a perfect stand, and in somecases it fell as low as 40 per cent. This meantthat the State devoted 9,000,000 ac
. Review of reviews and world's work. DISTRIBUTING LITEKATlIiE TO THE FARMERS AS THEY ARE LEAVING THE TRAIN 566 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF FAKMKKS GROUPED AT A RAILROAD STATION. vitally to the interest closest to their daily , no good photographs of the il-lustrative material were secured. There werecharts showing the stand of corn in one thou-sand fields of Iowa for 1903, bringing out thefact that the average stand in the State wasonly 66 per cent, of a perfect stand, and in somecases it fell as low as 40 per cent. This meantthat the State devoted 9,000,000 acres to cornand produced only a 6,000,000-acre crop ; or,to put it the other way, with a perfect stand,the present average yield of 33 bushels wouldbe increased to 50 bushels per acre, an increaseof 153,000,000 bushels. This does not take intoconsideration the increased yield possible throughthe use of improved varieties, better-bred seed,elimination of barren stalks by means of breed-ing, better methods of cultivation, and so There were charts showing the germinationtests of over twelve hundred samples of seedCorn received from all parts
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