Productive farming . erent parts of an ear of cornand two of them do not germinate and three do, it is a prettygood indication that sixty per cent of the kernels of the earwill grow and forty per cent will not. This means that fourhundred out of a possible one thousand kernels of that earwill fail if planted in the field. The farmer using such cornfor seed would get only a sixty per cent stand, which meansa very poor crop. He would waste two days out of everyfive spent in cultivating such a field, because two-fifths ofthe field would be bare ground. How to Test.—The ears of corn may be tested
Productive farming . erent parts of an ear of cornand two of them do not germinate and three do, it is a prettygood indication that sixty per cent of the kernels of the earwill grow and forty per cent will not. This means that fourhundred out of a possible one thousand kernels of that earwill fail if planted in the field. The farmer using such cornfor seed would get only a sixty per cent stand, which meansa very poor crop. He would waste two days out of everyfive spent in cultivating such a field, because two-fifths ofthe field would be bare ground. How to Test.—The ears of corn may be tested as clearlyshown in Fig. 74. First arrange a germination box; anyshallow flat box will do; place in it some clean wet sand orwet sawdust to a depth of about one inch (Fig. 75). CORN 130 Mark off squares two by two inches with a black lead pencilon white cloth; number these squares 1, 2, 3, etc.; wet thecloth and spread it over the wet sawdust so the numbersare in plain view. Next number all the ears of corn by using. Fig. 74.—A box tester for seed corn. Uoon muslin cloth .squares are drawn andnumbered. On each sciuare are laid five kernels from an ear of the .same the tester is filled, the sawdust shown at the left is placed to keep tlie ?rain moist. little squares of paper, which are held to the butt end of theears with small nails pushed through the numbered papersand then into the cobs. Now take five kernels from differentparts of each ear, not using any from near the tip nor butt.
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