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NEXT VJEEKs " rEOTIUZEO 'AND MANURE GRECtALSJ (Title Registered In U S Patent Office.) v (Copyright, 1909, by Poe & Butler - Editors.) A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA. & Vol. XXIII. No; 50. RALEIGH, N. C, JANUARY 28, 1909. VTeekly: $1 a Yer. ' - - - : - ' si - GOOD SEED AS A GUIDE POST TO "$500 MORE A YEAR FARMING." m HESE two photographs (reproduced from the 1907 Yearbook of the U; S. Department of Agriculture) illustrate in a striking manner the difference between "good seed and bad, and emphasize the point brought out by Prof. A. D. Shamel that only a small proportion of the plants in an ordinary cornfield produce the maximum size and weight of ear: There is much more difference between these two lots of corn than mere looks alone, you must remember. The first lot could be expected to produce irregular ears of varying shapes and sizes, small, mis-shapen ears, -many of them, and not at all true to the variety type. The second, lot might be expected to produce ears of uniform characteristics, large, symmetrical, true to type, and thus to give the maximum yield if these ears were selected from a patch where uniformity was the rule, and were not pollinated by barren or inferior stalks. Professor Massey has been telling you 'and scientists everywhere are coming to$ay -the same thing that you cannot judge the suitability of corn for seed "by the ear alone. This does not mean, however, that a poor ear will do as well as a good one. It means that the whole plant must be taken into consideration; and not only the plant that bears the ear, but all that have helped to fertilize It. Smooth, symmetrical, well-filled ears, i uniform and true to type, we must have to get the greatest yields; but if .. v - '.t V . rwoTO"- -Ti. 'sr,"'. ZsF-i-'--- V ' T 'i.-- ' :. v ri -r rr- n r. U P. I I ' I if ! 1 v BOONK COUNTY .WII1TK COItX EARS FROM UNSKLKCTKO SKKL. these fine ears have been pollenized by scrubby, mis-shapen, or barren plants, they are worthless for seed. A few good ears of corn in a field may be only the result of happy ac cidents, and may be just as poor stock tp'select seed .from as their less sightly neighbors. But where a corn field produces good ears, as a rule, in other words, where the type is so fixed that, such ears as will give the largest yield are the general rule, a good ear is worth considering in the selection of your seed. This is why you must have a seed patch, planted with selected seed amd carefully guarded and "rouged," if you expect to raise corn of the best quality for planting. Well bred seed is the result of careful selection, having always in view the definite characteristics desired in the plant. Haphazard re production will not give good live stock, nor will it give good seed stock. It took thirty-two years to breed the corn in the second illustration to its high standard but it was a paying expenditure of time and labor. Other things than good seed are necessary to make a good crop; but without good seed the naximum yield is impossible. It does not pay to -r vr7 .. "' hi -;. BOONE COUNTY WHITE CORN EARS FROM SEED SELECTED FOR 32 YEARS. spend labor on scrub seed or scrub ;stock; and it depends on your own ef forts whether you have scrub stock and scrub seed, or good stock and ) good seed. Plant a seed corn patch this year. How $5.99 Sold $550 AVortK of Stock. We cannot urge it too often upon our readers that if they have im proved seed, improved poultry, or "improved live stock, the best, quickest, and cheapest salesman they can find is an ad. in The Progressive Farmer. For instance, take this letter just received from Mr. W. B. Meares, Pro prietor Belvidere Farm, Linn wood).' N. C: . "I am thankful to The Progressiive Farmer for giving me such splen did results as an advertising medium. "On the 22nd of October I put jan ad. ia your paper, costing 1.89, calling attention to the fact that I would exhibit part of my herd of cat tle at the-Yadkin Valley Fair, at Salisbury, N. C; through this ad. I sold four calves for $150. Two went to Rowan County and two to Ca barrus County. Last spring I advertised registered calves and some grade cows one time with you and sold $400 worth as a result of the adver tisement, which itself cost only $4,10." Have you anything to sell, Mr. Reader? If so, you know what to do. INDEX TO THIS WEEK'S ISSUE. A System of Farm Water-Works, R. P. Wright 3 An Acre of Potatoes Yields 418 Bushels, W. C. Crook ... ...... 4 A Good Poultry House, Mrs. J. C. Deaton . 16 Comments on Last Issue, W. F. Massey . ; 11 $500 More a Year: How to Make It IV. ; 2 $115 From an Acre and a Quarter, D. Carmichael 4 Get Reddy to Farm Right . -.. . . Give Us the Torrens Law . . . .. . How to Cook Vegetables I. , Mrs. W.N. Hutt : How to Examine a Horse for PurcIWor Soundness . 12 How to Grow Early Tomatoes, W. F. Massey i Keep Down the Tobacco Acreage, p.L. Joyner Plant a Patch of Cotton for Seed, W. F Massey......... " preserve the Forests of the State, B.F. Keith Practical Turkey Raising, Miss E. C. Giles The Patent Medicine Season. ..: 4 . ... .. .. V"iilnch" " " " 5 Why the South is Poorer Than Other Sections, A. L. French. . . . ...... What Four Sows Did. A. J. Moye. j - -I ' I . . ' . ;v M, ' ' ' '" ( x 'V
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