The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 23, 1915, Page 6

GATHER AND STORE SEED CORN THIS FALL BEFORE IT’ FREEZES Go Into Your Best and Earliest Planted Fields Dur- ing Last Week in Sept. or First Week in Oct. - - Quit Guessing—We' Cannot Tell When We Select an Ear From the Wagon-Box as We Unload or From: the Crib What Sort of a Stalk It Came From—We Do Not Know Whether the Stalk Was Weak or Strong, Early or Late, in Maturity—The Best Way to Improve the Quality, Maturity and Yield of Our Corn Is to Select Ears in Fig. 3. One of the very best methods for gathering the seed is to go into the best and earliest planted fields with bags and select well matured ears from the most vigorous stalks. The the Field—It Will Pay You. | By P. G@. HOLDEN, Agricultural Ex- tension Department international Harvester Company of New Jersty. | If every ear of corn intended for | planting was harvested at the proper | time and properly stored,: millions of dollars would be added to the value of the corn crop. Fig, 1. Harvesting the Seed Corn for Next Year's: Planting.—Every ear of corn intended for planting should be harvested before’ the severe fall freezes, and stored where it will dry out and keep dry. In Iowa and the northern half of Illinois this work should be done the last ten days of September and the first four or five days of October, Frozen seed corn costs | the country millions of dollars every | year, S ; A Convenient Method of Gathering | the Seed as One Passes Between the | Rows.—Use an ordinary two-bushel | grain sack; a wooden hoop from a | nail keg is put in the top of the sack. ; Some heavy cord, 14 inches long ; (binding twine doubled several times) | is tied to one of the bottom corners of the-sack; the other end of the cord is then brought over the shoulder | and tied to the hoop inthe top of the sack. The cord is wrapped with an eld sack to prevent the string cutting the shoulder, , Fig. 2, Tying up the Seed Corn. Putting in the First Eer.—A piece of binding twine is doubled and the ends tied together. Note how the string is held in the hands, Fig. 3—Showing the String of Corn Completed Ready to Be Hung cut shows a convenient way to ar- | Tange a sack so that you may have_ both hands free for picking. | You must not fail to consider the stalk in selecting your seed, for it takes large, thrifty stalks to produce good big ears. It is not a good plan to take the ear from a stalk that | grew in a hill by itsel*, or from one | in the hill with a barren or weal | stalk. Many of the kernels on such an ear are likely to be pollenized by the barren or weak stalk. Choose Ears of a Medium Height.— if you select the highest ears your corn will gradually become late, and if you select the lowest ears you will soon have an early corn with shallow Fig. 4. kernels and wide furrows between the rows, Pick ears that droop over so that | their tips are turned dowmward. Such ears shed water better when it rains | and are usually drier than ears stand- | ing upright. The shank should be short, as ears with long shanks are | harder to husk, and are more often damaged. See that the husks are long enough to cover the tip of the ear, but do not extend far beyond. If the tip is left bare, it is likely to be dam- aged by insects or disease, and if the husks extend far beyond the point of the ear they are usually tightly dlosed, | so that it cannot dry out well and is dificult to husk. : Bly i | : | | Fig. 1. |Up Where It Will Dry Out and Keep Dry.—When the Last Ear is laid in, one end of the string is slipped under the string in the other hand, and fastened. Tie and hang up the seed the same day or evening that it is brought, in. This method of tying up allows a free | circulation of air. It is circulation of air, not heat, that is needed to dry out the seed, Corn commonly contains at this time from 30 to 45 per cent of water. It requires but a few minutes to tie up 300 or 400 ears. - Fig. 4.—Experiments show that the attic or some upstairs room where_ the windows can be opened to give | circulation of air during October and | November, is the best place to hang seed corn. A space three by eight feet will hold 200 strings of seed corn like ' @OOD PLACES TO STORE: _1. Dry, well-ventilated cellar, 2. Dry attic’ or storeroom. 3. Dry, ventilated shed. 4. Any dry, ventilated build. ing. 1. H. C. LECTURE CHARTS. =” Your Chamber of Commerce Should Put on a Serles of Lectures With 1, H. C. Charts and Sliides—Get Your Farm Demonstrator or Superinten. dent of Schools to Give You a Prat. tical Talk on Agriculture, You will be -surprised to see how intensely interested your bankers and merchants will be. If you want to put your organization on the map, plan ah | agricultural campaign of education, Ar- range & program. Give one lecture a week on any of these subjects: Soilé, Corn, Alfalfa, : Poultry, Weeds, Live Stock, Files, etc. Follow each lecture with a discussion of the subject. Make your chamber of commerce an edu- cational center, not just a “club.” Your town is built on’the surplus earn. ings of the farm. Business men in town should take a keen interest in the industrial welfare of the town’s “trade territory.” There is nothing constructive in grabbing business from other commu- nities—create new business in your own community. Have a chamber of agriculture and commerce. ‘ If you want to make your organiza- tion a place of interest, plan a three months’ lecture course. lecture charts and slides. You can, ho doubt, find among the members of your chamber of commerce men who ean give interesting and instructive talks on any of the subjects treated | in these charts, ~ WHY CROPS RUN OUT. The question is often raised as to whether crops “run out” or not. To say that crops do not “run out” would be to deny that any variations are pro- duced by changed conditions or envi- ronment. When plants are brought into new conditions of soil, climtate, or methods of farming less favorable, they will tend to deteriorate or “run out.” Desirable Qualities Suffer First Un- der Unfavorable Conditions.. If cern is planted too thick (seven or eight stalks per‘hill) a large’ yield of foli- age will be obtained, but the yield of grain will be small. Under unfavor- able conditions the plant tends to re- vert to its original condition, and the particular thing for which the plant is grown and which gives it value suf- fers first and most. Best Methods Necessary. It is only by the best methods of seed selection and of cultivation that the farmer can hope to maintain the valuable qualities of his crops, otherwise they will dete- tiorate or “run out” and it will be nec- essary for him to secure seed from someone who has paid more attention to the improvement of his crops. “SEED CORN WEEK.” The Last Week in September or the First Week in October Should Be Set Aside as Seed Corn Week in the Corn Belt. We have “Arbor Day.” Would it not also be well to have a “Seed Corn Day?” A day when everyone should begin the harvesting and storing of his'seed for the following spring. We laugh at our grandfathers for planting their potatoes and sowing their grain “in the moon,” that is, in certain phases of the moon. The value of this practice lay, not in the fact as supposed by many that the moon ex- ercised any influence on the crop, but in the having of a definite time and plan for the doing of various things on the farm. If the harvesting of seed corn, iike the feeding of stock, came every day, it would be attended to on time, but it is nothing more nor less than hu- man that the work which comes only occasionally or once a year, as in the case of the harvesting of seed corn should be put off or neglected alto- gether, unless there is a definite time and plan for the work. 1915 A BAD YEAR. Indications point to trouble in the corn belt this year. 1915 is an abnormal year. moisture and cool weather has retarded the growth of corn, es pecially In the northern states. Corn will be late tn Use I. H. C./. Notice The 2 stoves in 1. ; The Outside powerful Radiating \. Body. The Inside durable Two Stoves for the Price of One We offer ‘you only reliable goods made by reliable manufacturers.. Honest prices and honest values is our motto. 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It gives a guaranteed fuel economy. afford to be without this Come in and see ‘* Cole’s Hot Blast makes your coal pile last.’” Fo avoid imitations look for Cole's. BUTLER, MO. Hardware, Furniture and Implements. Select Seed Corn Early | i Frost may make corn as rare next spring as was in 1912. , | _ Always select seed corn in the | field before frosts ‘and freezes | injure it. Scoop-shovel seleetion or even more careful crib pick- ing next spring, will be especialiy fatal if frost injures the corn this fall. When the*harvest is on and you begin to gather the crop, you can not tell which ears matured car- ly and would be likely to pyro- duce an early crop that will avoid frost next year. You are too busy to study seed ears, anyhow, when trying to put as many bushels as possible mto the crib each day. _ ¥ Only in the field is it possible ‘to know whether an ear is large because it was produced: on the only stalk in the hill and so had more than its share of sunshine and plant food. Careful experi- ment station tests have shown that the ears which are good in spite of having been grown. on poor soil and in a somewhat crowded stand are more product- ive than those on highly fertile fields or in’ thin stands. ; Only in the field can you tell whether the ear .was too high or too low on the stalk and whether it stood so erect ‘that the ‘fall rains would enter the husks and spoil. the ear. Ears that stand al- erect. will be‘materially in- re ogo ag good seed it | | of the year, Wage War Against Hog Cholera The season of the year is approach- ing when hog cholera usually becomes ; more prevalent than at any other time There are several reasons for this, however, which may be avoid- ed by the farmers using proper meth- ods of swine management. Since it Is the farmer's job to control and eradicate hog cholefa he should put forth an extra effort to keep his herd in @ good physical condition and free from disease. Some principles which every swine raiser should put into practice are: Clean and disinfect all the lots and pens with plenty of fresh slacked lime, quarantine all sick hogs into close quarters where no oth- er animals come in contact with them, burn every carcass on the farm im- mediately, quarantine all hogs brought }onto the farm for twenty-one days, do not visit farms where hogs are sick, do not permit parties traveling over. the country to efter your hog lots ‘as they are apt to carry infection to your herd, guard against all, sources of in- fection cdrriers such as: stray dogs, pigeons and all other birds. There are two sources of, cholera: which are most dangerous, the sick hog and the dead hog. By quarantin- ing the sick hog, and burning the dead hog and thoroughly disinfecting .the Premises. further spread of the disease may be avoided. The hogs should be free from para- sites as they lower ‘the .resistance-of the animal, In case the hogs are in- fested with lice spray them with straight crude oil, or fuel of] and re- peat the treatment in- ten days, If the trouble is worms secure some cop- peras and glaubers salts dissolve this in warm water and give one table- spoonfull of copperas afd one and one- half tablespoonfuls of glaubers salts per 100 pounds of live weight, mtx this in a small amount of. thin slop, sopa- rate the hogs into groups of ten or twelve and keep them off feed for % hours previous to treétment and with: hold feed for six. hours after trea ment. Se Gea Pe aang _& conditioner mi: the: following CH BROS. A number of the owners of land in the Grand River Drain- age District brought an injune- tion suit Monday restraining the- drainage authorities from pro- ceeding further with the work. The court issued « temporary re- straining order returnable ‘at an. early date at which time it will be determined whethr or not the. injunction will ve made perma- nent.—Adrian. Journal. i SEE THE } |Clothes| Doctors]