. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. Figure 21.—Good ears of rorn, with straight rows and even kernels. Figura 22.—Poor ears of corn. Note the crooked rows and irregular ker- nels. Examine a corn planter, if possible, to see how it drops the corn. It is very important to the farmer that all his seed corn he uniform in size, because corn is now planted by machines and unless the kernels are about the same size and shape the machine cannot drop the same number in each hill. If uneven sized kernels were used for planting, the number in a hill would vary as the num- ber of kernels you were ab
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. Figure 21.—Good ears of rorn, with straight rows and even kernels. Figura 22.—Poor ears of corn. Note the crooked rows and irregular ker- nels. Examine a corn planter, if possible, to see how it drops the corn. It is very important to the farmer that all his seed corn he uniform in size, because corn is now planted by machines and unless the kernels are about the same size and shape the machine cannot drop the same number in each hill. If uneven sized kernels were used for planting, the number in a hill would vary as the num- ber of kernels you were able to place in the cir- cles 3^ou drew varied. Most farmers like to plant three kernels in a hill, because. Figure 23.—Relative size and shape of tip, middle and butt kernels of corn. The circle represents the hole in the plate in a corn planter, with the number of ker- nels of different sizes that a planter would drop. Photo by H. D. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875- [from old catalog]; Wilson, E. W. , [from old catalog] joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb publishing co.
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