. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Improving Ccrn by Seed Selection. 567 ready to plant, shell these twenty-five ears, discarding imperiect kernels at apex and base, and keeping the grain from each ear in a separate bag. Number these bags, i, 2, 3, etc., up to 25. 1909 operations. We wilf assume that planting operations begin in the spring of 1909. Select a small field where the soil is uniform andwhich is at some distance from any other corn field, at leas
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Improving Ccrn by Seed Selection. 567 ready to plant, shell these twenty-five ears, discarding imperiect kernels at apex and base, and keeping the grain from each ear in a separate bag. Number these bags, i, 2, 3, etc., up to 25. 1909 operations. We wilf assume that planting operations begin in the spring of 1909. Select a small field where the soil is uniform andwhich is at some distance from any other corn field, at least from 500 to 1000 feet, and which is large enough for fifty rows twenty-five hills long. Plant twenty-five hills in each row with five kernels per hill. It is desirable to plant 50 rows so that two rows in difi'erent parts of the. Fig. 3.—Product of a 25 hill progeny, from one select ear showing late maturity: ears on left unripe; ears on right ripe. field may be planted from each ear. The soil in New York is in general so uniform that the use of two rows is advocated in order to get a more reliable test of the yielding capacity of each of the select ears. Rows i and 26 should be planted from bag i, rows 2 and 27 from bag 2, and so on until rows 25 and 50 are planted from bag 25. In this way the grower will have left over about one-half of the seed of each ear, numbered the same as the corresponding rows. Save this seed care- fully, keeping each lot in its numbered bag. After the corn in this seed patch is well up, thin uniformly to three stalks per hill. Should the land be poor thin to two stalks per hill. Cultivate just the same as an ordinary 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 Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?], 1900-1910. James B. Lyon, State pri
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