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The Four Essentials Orders for Harvesting, Testing, Grading and Improving Corn If I owned the farms of the United States I would give four orders to my farmers as follows: i. Harvesting. You must harvest during the last ten days of September and the first five days of October of this year and every year thereafter, all the seed corn intended for the next springs planting. This seed must be strung and hung up each day, as fast as harvested, according to plans which will be explained in another place. You will be expected to harvest and store as described, at least five times the amount of seed actually required for planting, that you may have plenty from which to select the best; and also sufficient to provide for any replanting which may be made necessary from any cause. 2. Testing. You must make a thorough germination test of at least six kernels from every ear selected for planting, and discard all ears that are dead or that give weak germination. You will be expected to begin this important work February 20th, and continue until it is completed, which should not be later than March 20th. Specific directions for this work are given in another place under the head of Preparing the Seed for the Planter and also in Steps in Testing Corn. You will study these directions carefully at once that you may, in due time, make the proper preparations for the work. You will be expected to follow these directions in detail as nearly as possible. 3. Grading and Hand-P icking. That you may secure regularity in the drop of the planter and the right number of kernels per hill (which must be not less than three), you will shell fifteen or twenty ears, each ear separately, placing the larger kerneled ears in one grade and the smaller in another. You will now test the drop of the planter with each of these grades, using the different sized plates. This is necessary to secure a
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