This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...many different methods of storing seed corn, whether on nails, on strings, in racks or otherwise. One method, which seems to be meeting the approval of many of the best farmers, is to cut a sort of pole ladder out of rather heavy wire fencing, having square meshes and the wires soldered, or "welded" together at the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...many different methods of storing seed corn, whether on nails, on strings, in racks or otherwise. One method, which seems to be meeting the approval of many of the best farmers, is to cut a sort of pole ladder out of rather heavy wire fencing, having square meshes and the wires soldered, or "welded" together at the intersections. Such fencing is easily procured at any store handling goods of this class. One of the vertical wires is followed from top to bottom and cross wires cut away from it at every other intersection so that it resembles a pole with steps nailed on it. The drawing and pictures show clearly how this is done. The ears are put on these holders, which are then hung up in some such place as the garret of a dwelling house where the conditions mentioned at the beginning of this section prevail. Fig. 75.--How the wire is cut. 117. Testing the Seed.--No matter how carefully the seed has been selected and stored, we can not be certain of our stand in the field without testing specimen kernels from each ear. While we are able in certain cases to detect dead kernels by an examination of the germs, yet we can not always do so with any degree of certainty; and as for those which are alive, we are wholly unable to distinguish in this manner the kernels of strong vitality from those which are weak. It follows that we can not be sure of the vitality of our seed corn save by an actual germination test. There are many methods of testing seed corn, although the same principles underlie all of them: First: Cloth, or any other material which. touches the seed, should be boiled or some other method used to kill the spores of molds which may otherwise destroy the vitality of the seed. Second: The material in contact with the seed should be uniformly mo...
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