Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Since the yield of stover CROP IMPROVEMENT 161 is of only minor importance, it does not matter whether the plants arccut or not, but they must be husked separately and the corn ears the yields of the ear-rows have been obtained, any one of a numberof methods for continuing the work may be followed. The simplest wayis to take the remnants of the best ears as shown by the ear-row test,shell these together and plant in an isolated seed plat the next year. ?From this plat
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Since the yield of stover CROP IMPROVEMENT 161 is of only minor importance, it does not matter whether the plants arccut or not, but they must be husked separately and the corn ears the yields of the ear-rows have been obtained, any one of a numberof methods for continuing the work may be followed. The simplest wayis to take the remnants of the best ears as shown by the ear-row test,shell these together and plant in an isolated seed plat the next year. ?From this plat the diseased and weak stalks should be removed before thepollen is shed. Seed should be saved from the best rows in the ear-rowplat for field planting the next year. The third year there should be anear-row plat like that of the first year and the ears for this should comefrom the multiplying plat grown the second year. The seed of the maincrop the third year should come from the multiplying plat and from thepart of the field in which the seed from the ear-rows was planted. This. The Ear-to-Row Test Plat with Corn Husked, Showing a Method Used inAscertaining Which Seed Ears Have Yielded method provides for an ear-row plat and a multiplying plat on alternateyears. Ideals in Selection of Corn.—Besides attempting to secure greaterproductiveness in a variety of corn, one who would improve the cropshould seek to adapt the variety in length of growing season to the local-ity in which it is grown. In a general way the best varieties are thosewhich require about all of the season for development and yet can bedepended upon to mature before frost. The stalks should be of medium size and able to stand up ears should be of medium height from the ground, with a rather shortshank, and should droop somewhat rather than stand erect. By con-tinuous selection for high and low ears for five years at the Ohio Experi-ment Station, two strains were developed from one variety with
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