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Making Money On the Farm VI. -Seed Corn Breeding By C. V. GREGORY, Alitor of "Home Coarse k Modem Aflriofere" Cwi*l>t IMS. by tulw hw ■ — J| IN the preceding articles improved methods of growing a %w of the moat wifely grown fartn crops have be# given. By study and ca refn) attentii*) to details it la possible for a farmer to make a good profit raising common produce for the general market. Much greater re tarns, however, may be obtained by specializing In some particular line and selling the products on a special market One of the moat profitable special lines that can be followed la breeding Improved seed com. This Is some-

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thing that must be done for every locality. since corn shipped In from any distance cannot be relied on. It Is entirely possible to increase the yielding ability of a strain of corn ten boshels to. the acre or more ty a very few years' breeding. Seed from such an Improved strain will find a ready market at satisfactory figures. Selection of Ears. In starting out to Improve a strain of corn, there are two main points to be considered— yield and quality. The quality can be determined readily by Inspecting the ears. In examining the ears the following five points are to be looked for: (1) General appearance The ear should be as large as It can be and still be sure to get ripe every year. It should be straight, symmet ileal and not taper too abruptly. The butts and tips should be fairly well filled, though other more important points should not be sacrificed for this. (2) True cess to type. Every established breed of com has Its peculiarities of shape, color, etc., that must be considered. The general type of the breed should be adhered to closely, aa uniformity is an indication of breeding. (8) Maturity . No ear should be used for seed that Is not sound and well matured. Soft, chaffy, starchy kernels or those shrunken at the tip. with chaff adhering to tbem. are Indications of immaturity Deep kernelB go with late maturing corn. Extreme deptb of kernel cannot be _gspeeted In the early varieties that must be grown In the north. (4» Vitality While all com should be tested before it is planted, yet there are many ears that can be thrown out witbont the trouble of test lng. Immature ears are usually lack lng In vitality If the kernels are blistered on the back or the embryo Is dark or yellowish the chances are that It will not grow. (5) Shelling percent age A high percentage of com to cob is desirable, bat should be secured by compact, fairly deep kernels rather than by an abnormally small cob. Increasing the Yield. While quality is Important yield Is even more so This Is not so easily determined, actual field testa being required Before starting these testf the breed of corn to be grown should be selected. It pays to begin work with the best corn obtainable, as you are thus starting where some one else has left off A breed of corn that has proved Itself adapted to your locality Is the best to select There are almost as many methods of breeding seed corn as there are corn breeders. Many of these are too complicated to be adapted to the farmer who la Just starting In as a corn breeder After a few years' experience with a simpler method, some of the plans for keeping a record of each ear from year to year and producing "pedigreed" seed corn may be employed. The breeding plot should be COO to 600 feet long— just long enough so that It takes an ear to plant a row. It should be wide enough for about fifty of these rows. The soil and drainage conditions of the plot should be as nearly uniform as poeslhle. It should be located twenty to forty rods from any other corn, so that there will be bo danger of miring Fifty of the beet ears of the desired strain should be selected and shelled separately. Bach of the rows In the breeding plot Is to be planted with one of these ears. The work can be done with a planter If care la taken to dean out the boxes

too roughly each time serosa. It t» better to drill the "com In the breeding plot since It la too narrow to cultivate to advantage crosswise. Two or three border rows should be planted around the edges of the plot Care of the Breeding Plot. The breeding plot should not be fertilized any better than any of the other fields on the farm, and the preparation of the seed bed and cultivation should be the same. The prime object is to develop a strain of corn that will yield well under average field conditions. The extra work that is put on the breeding plot should be applied to the corn itself and not to the soil. About the time cultivation ceases all suckers should be cut off. This can be I quickly done with a straight bladed com knife. These suckers take nourishment needed by the good stalks and produce inferior pollen to fertilise the alike. The moat Important part of the work is detassellng When the tassels begin to appear go through the plot and carefully pull them out from every other row. This should be done every day for a week or more— aa long as tassels continue to appear. At tbe same time any Imperfect stalks In tbe other rows should be detameled. If there are any rows that show a marked tendency to sucker, carry the ears too high or low or hare any other marked defect, they should be detaE eeled also Comparing the Yields. As soon as tbe corn Is all ripe the ears from the twenty-five detasaeled rows should be busked, keeping tbe produce of each row separate. The com from the tassel ed' rows, as well as from the Imperfect rows that were de tan-soled and from the border rows, should be discarded. At the. time of husking the detasaeled corn any peculiarity of tbe stalks in a row should be noted. The number of stalks In each row should also be counted. The weight of tbe corn from a row divided by the number of stalks in that row j will give the weight per stalk, which I is the proper basis for comparison, it will be found that there la a very great difference In yielding ability, some rows yielding twice or three times as much as others. This yield, together with the number of good seed ears to the row. forms the basis for determining from which row to sdlect ears to plant next year's breeding plot The rest of the ears worth saving should be stored away to plant in the Increase field The Increase field Is not for the purpose of improving tbe corn, but merely to secure larger quantities of that which has been improved in tbe breeding plot Each year seed from tbe highest quality and best yielding of the individual rows is saved to plant the next year's breeding plot and the remainder used in the increase fieldIn this way the standard keeps lmi proving from year to year. Ten bush els to the ac re Increase Is by no means the limit to which the Improvement can be carried. Indeed, almost the only limit Is the care and time bestowed upon the breeding plot The Seed Corn House. Where several hundred bushels of corn are to be saved for seed, as Is the case where a specialty Is being ' made of well bred seed corn. It Is necessary to have 'some sort of special seed corn house. This may be filled with slatted racks, on which the corn Is laid, or tbe ears may be hung from " the celling with binder twine. The latter Is tbe better method, as It permits a more thorough circulation of | air around the corn. The use of two i

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' strings, one at each end of the ear. i keeps It -from warping, as It will warp I if tied by one string In the middle. One of the chief requirements of a seed corn houae Is adequate ventlla- ' tfcm. In the northern, section where ' severe cold weather comes early some t artificial heat will be needed. The ' corn may be hung In the seed house as ' soon aa it 1 gathered. At this time It ' contains a large amount of moisture. ' so the windows should all be opened | to allow It to dry rapidly Artificial ' heat should be applied gradually at 1 first, ss too much when the corn Is ' full of moisture will Injure It. After 1 tbe corn Is well dried out less ventila ' tion will it oeed"d. though some 1 should be- given st all times. Heat will be needed from this rime an ooly on

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Lanin IV-TNrd Quarter, For! July 25, 1909. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Tsxt of the Lesson, Acts xvii, 18-84. j Memory Verse, 29^-Colden Text, John ■ Iv, 24 — Commentary Prepsrsd by Rev. D. M. St earns. Copyright. 1908. by Aaericss Pre* Anwt.rtm 1 . In this lesson we find Paul at Athens, which might be called the seat of earthly wisdom, and while he walled for Silas and Timothy to come to him Berea his spirit was stirred as saw tbe Idolatry of the city. and. that the same Jesus who saved Mm would save them, too, be could not refrain from preaching Jesus to them, not only In tbe synagogues 1 of the Jews, but publicly In the market every day and at all times to such devout people as were willing to listen to him. Some of tbe lovers of wisdom took him to Mare bill, and there be discoursed to tbem, aa recorded In the lesson today— not reasoning out of the Scriptures, as with the Jews, who the Scriptures, but preaching to them as the Creator and aa the Judge of all mankind, commanding all men everywhere to repent and turn j to Him thai they might be saved. We will not have the zeal for souls that Paul bad unless we see tbem as he did— "without strength, ungodly, sinners, enemies" (Rom. v, 6-10), "children of disobedience under the prince of the - power of the air. children of wrath, without Christ having no hope and without God In the world (Eph. 11, 2, 3, 12). Then we must have the mind of God toward them, not willing that ! any should perish, but believing that He would have all to be saved by receiving Jesus, who gave Himself for our sins and was made a curse for us (Gat 1. 4: 111. 13) Paul saw in these wise but foolish Athenians men for whom Christ died, and he' longed for their deliverance from the prince of this world and from the powers of darkness. He took as his Yoplc the Inscription on one of their many altars. "To the unknown God," and he preached to them the only living and true God. the Creator of all things, for if any man will come to God he must believe that He la and that He la a rewardet of tbem that diligently seek Him (Heb. xi. 6). The opening words 1 of Paul's discourse concerning the Creator bring to mind Gen. L 1; John 1. i 1-3; Col. 1. 1G: Heb. L 1-3. along with Ps. xxxlii. C,; Isa. xl. 28; Jer. xxxll. 17; I Acts lv. 24. and many more. His giving to all life and breath and all things ! and that in Him we live and move and have our being (verses 25. 28) make us j think of Dan. v, 28, "The God in , whose hand thy breath Is and whose are all thy ways." and of Heb. lv. 13. 1 "Neither is there any creature that Is ! not manifest in His sight, but all I things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do." ! That He has made of one blood all I nations of men to dwell od all the face j of the earth and appointed the bounds | of tbelr habitation (verse 2R> does not j seem to be quite In accord with the | love of one's native land that so many j sing about" Let the world sing. "My CouDtry. 'Tls of Tbee." but the Christian whose citizenship Is In heaven ! and who prays. "Thy kingdom come. ! Thy will be done in earth as It Is In i heaven." should take a wider view and sing. "All nations whom Thon hast 1 made shall come and worship before i thee. O Lord. And shall glorify Thy name" (Ps. lxxxvl. 9l. "All nations shall come and worship before thee" (Rev. rv, 4i. and live anywhere on earth with equal cheerfulness If only through us t'te church. His body, may be gathered from all nations and the time of Ills worldwide kingdom has- '! tenod It N His desire that all should 6eek Hlrn .ind find Him. hut while many are Ignorantly feeling after Him ' hew can they ever find HI in if no one : ever tells them of Him? Does It not j seem clear as tbe light that the one | thing a believer Is on earth for is to I j declare to nil the righteousness of God | ! in Christ; that all who will may oh- I i tain this righteousness audhe justified . j freely by His grace through the re- I | demptioD that is In Christ Jesus? Tills . ! Jesus. Son of God. whom He raised | ' from the dead. He has ordnlned to be ( i Judge of all tbe world, and therefore i - He commands all men to repent that | | He may not have to say to them. "De- | part from me. ye cursed. Into everlast- • 1 lng fire prepared for the devil and his j I angels" (Matt. xxv. 41). He will have i I no pleasure In saying this to any. but | It Is written again and again that ! some shall have to go to tbe lake of j fire and brimstone (Rev. xlv. 10; xlx. ! I 20: xx, 15: xxl. 8). Many call this a j | horrible doctrine and will not tolerate j the thought of It and have no use for a God who would make such a place ; or send any one to it. All such are - blinded by Bfce god of this world, for r whom the awful place was prepared. ; and If they persist In their blindness ^ and !n rejecting the gift of eternal life their doom will by their own choice be aa awful aa the record reads. The day of judgment here spoken of will last at least a thousand years, at the beginning of which there will be the Judgment of the saints only at the ■ Judgment seat of Christ; then the ' Judgment of the living nations, when we come with Christ In His glory to set up His kingdom and at the end of ' the thousand years the great white , throne for the ungodly (see my tract 5 on "The Four Judgments," puUUahed , by L. 4c K„ box 216, Harrisbmrg. Pa.). There are few If any dally papers which would publish a discourse on this topic, for. like the Athenians, the people covet to bear some new thing. i| ;

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