Is Your Seed Corn Safe?

Corn is likely to be a g-ooil cropto grow tliis ycar. It is a long time aince the previous erop was so closely used up in the country aa it will be befare new corn begins lo get into marketable condition, next October. From numerous corrwpotidcntsof the Prairie Farmer we learn tliat, in their wveral localities, farmers are mnv buyinsr coro, where, in ordinary year, the cribs were overflowinjr with that held wiiitins tor botter prices. and often carrled into the next year. Tliere i pcii icl y more fear of a repetition of last seasoii's drouth, tlian tliere is of "lightning sirikinir twice in the same place" at short intervals. With gnod weatuer tlit-re niay be an enormous erop; but it will le worth ranch more tlnm if two or three hundreil raÜHon husht Is of provions crp wcre canic-d over, as has been tbc for ;i niimbei' of yeire past. Tben asain, if it shotild sink to huif the present price, it woukl be becanse thost grovinr it generully get a doublé y leid per ücre, and so the returns woiild be ¦Imilar In amounts, hatin the extra coat of handling the doublé quantity. With wheat we am subject lo active competition, depen(Hii}r upnn tlie quantity of the varylng yield in Judia, Australia, Sowheaptern Europe, California, etc. Hutas j-et, Ameiican farmers hold supremacy, with little -orapetition, in corn anil cotton, while Europe is each year leamlng more and more of the food valur, for man and beast, of our cheap cereal, and taking it of us in larger increased amounts. Except in extraordinaiily dry or extreme cold years, corn is one of our surest crops, thotigh the increased desti uction by the clinch-bugs lat season is n cause of some anxiety. And here, tiy the way, e cll on !). Forhep, and otlior ntouioloirist.", to keep the farmers well informeel of all that cm be dt'iie now and from tliia time on, to aver the destruclive work of this