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Home and Farm Magazine Section
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 191-1.
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Agronomy Students Selecting Seed Corn at College of Agriculture.
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THE SELECTION of seed corn is being made on many Northwestern farms at this time. The
above illustration shows future farmers of this section getting their first knowledge of
the saving of seed corn. This view was taken at the farm of the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege at Corvallis and is typical of the work being done by this institution and also by the
"Washington Agricultural College at Pullman.
Seed selection is a very important factor in successful corn growing. The corn plant is able
to adapt itself, to a greater degree than any other cultivated plant, to soil and climatic condi
tions and there is also a wider variation in size and quality of grains, under average condi
tions, than is to be found with other cereals. The place to select seed corn is in the field, not in
a book, and as far as possible, the agricultural colleges of the Northwest give this first-hand
knowledge. It makes little difference how much a student may have studied the values of
various grades of corn, it is not until he has inspected a corn field and selected the ears himself
that he has a working knowledge of how this selection should be made.
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