Agriculture for beginners . - that will command a high price for seed. EXPERIMENT Even^ school boy and girl can make this experiment at leisure. Fromyour own field get two ears of corn, one from a stalk bearing only oneear and the other from a stalk bearing two well-grown ears. Plant the. Fig. 55. Improvemext of Corn by Selectiox Boone Count) white com on left, and original tj^pe, from which it was developedby selection, on right grains from one ear in one plat, and the grains from the- other in aplat of equal size. Use for both the same soil and the same both plats in the
Agriculture for beginners . - that will command a high price for seed. EXPERIMENT Even^ school boy and girl can make this experiment at leisure. Fromyour own field get two ears of corn, one from a stalk bearing only oneear and the other from a stalk bearing two well-grown ears. Plant the. Fig. 55. Improvemext of Corn by Selectiox Boone Count) white com on left, and original tj^pe, from which it was developedby selection, on right grains from one ear in one plat, and the grains from the- other in aplat of equal size. Use for both the same soil and the same both plats in the same way. When the crop is ready to har\-est,husk the corn, count the ears, and weigh the corn. Then write a shortessay on your work and on the results and get your teacher to correctthe story for your home paper. THE PLANT 69 SECTION XX. WEEDS Have you ever noticed that some weeds are killed by oneparticular method, but that this same method ma\ entirely failto kill other kinds of weeds ? If we wish to free our fields ofweeds with the greatest ease, we must know the nature ofeach kind of weed and then attackit in the way in which we canmost readily destroy it. The ordinary pigweed (Fig. 56)differs from many other weeds inthat it lives for only one winter comes, it must
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