For more and better corn in the Northwest .. . or the furnace room of the modern homewhich offers a splendid place, a part of the granary should befitted up so as to make it possible to use artificial heat if theweather should be unusually cold and damp after the seed cornis gathered and before it is thoroughly dried out. Wliere to Store Seed Com Taking all things into consideration, probably there is nobetter place to store seed corn than in the attic. The experi-ments conducted at the Iowa Agricultural College, where theseed was stored In various places, show that the attic is one ofthe very
For more and better corn in the Northwest .. . or the furnace room of the modern homewhich offers a splendid place, a part of the granary should befitted up so as to make it possible to use artificial heat if theweather should be unusually cold and damp after the seed cornis gathered and before it is thoroughly dried out. Wliere to Store Seed Com Taking all things into consideration, probably there is nobetter place to store seed corn than in the attic. The experi-ments conducted at the Iowa Agricultural College, where theseed was stored In various places, show that the attic is one ofthe very best places for seed corn. The second best placeseems to be the cellar and especially the furnace room. There 14 STOBE SEED WITH CASE are several objections to the average cellar. It is apt to be toodamp and the corn must be well dried before putting it in thecellar and it must not be corded up or put in piles, but hung the cellar there is more danger from mice and generallyless room, but it has one great advantage in that it protects. Tying up Seed-oorn the corn from the hard freezes. Seed that is hung in the barnor under an open shed may come through the winter in fair con-dition provided it was harvested and hung up early, so as to bethoroughly dry before cold weather. However, much of theseed stored in this way is either killed or greatly the warm, damp spells, the seed gathers moisture and isinjured by the hard freezes that follow. It is bad economy to be careless with seed corn. Poor seedmeans a poor stand; not only is a portion of the field idle butthe missing hills and the one stalk hills and the poor,worthlessstalks must be cultivated, and nothing secured in of people every year in the corn belt work more thana third of every day on ground that produces nothing. It is not safe to depend for seed on the occasional good ear SPROUTS SHOULD BE STRONG 15 found while husking. The corn will be injured by freezingbefore it is husked or b
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