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Vol. XXIX. No. 35
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914
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SELECTED SEED PAY PROFITS
EXPERIMENTAL AND SEED SELECTION WORK WITH CORN. FARM OF D. R. C0KER, HARTSVILLE, S. C.
THE importance of planting only the best seed should be too ob
vious to warrant discussion. However, the presence of barren
corn stalks in nearly every field and of cotton stalks almost the
exact opposite of the type that has given the best yields, indicates that
the subject of good seed is one to which Southern farmers as a rule
give too little attention.
We must get rid of the idea that "just any
old thing," any kind of livestock, any sort
of seed, will do, and stand only for the best
of everything. Just as it is idle to expect to
grow livestock successfully with only scrub
breeding stock, so do we fall short of pro
ducing the largest and most profitable crops
of corn and cotton where only ordinary seed
are planted. The truth of this statement is
amply borne out by all experience and ex
periment station evidence.
It is not meant to imply that we should
pay high prices for fancy-named seeds that
come from a distance, for this is usually the
very thing we should not do. It is a fairly
well established law that seeds of almost
every crop do best when planted in a section
BE SURE TO READ- Paw
Fighting the Boll Weevil With Live
stock . . 3
Five Things Cotton Farmers Should
Do 11
Going Off to School 8
Plant a Field of Rape Now 10
Some Good Things Said at the North
... Carolina Farmers' Convention 6
The Harvest Time . . . . . .10
The Interest Bug and the Farmer's
Crop 11.
What Can We Afford to Pay for
Crimson Clover Seed? .... 10
possessing natural conditions most nearly like those under which the
seed were produced. In other words, the variety and type of cotton
that will probably give best results is the one that has been longest
grown in a particular locality and which has consequently become ad
justed to local soil and climatic conditions. The same is true of corn
and nearly all other farm crops.
Plainly then, the policy for us to pursue will
be, first, to center on the particular type Of corn
or cotton that has been long grown in our section
and that has apparently on an average been the
best yielder." Of course, in centering on such a
type or variety, the State experiment station
should be consulted and a careful study of their
variety tests made. Then when the type is settled
upon, every effort should be made not only to
maintain the standard, but constantly to raise it.
Now is the time to plan for making 1915 our
best year the time for getting out of the "aver
age" class and realizing the additional $500 a
year that is for the ma) who applies up-to-date
methods to his farm operations. Careful seed
selection is one of the essentials that we can't
afford to neglect.