Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . (Courtesy Funk Bros.) Fig. 23. THE PICKING SQUAD. Gathering seed corn in the field. HARVESTING SEED CORN. 105 During this process, consideration of the strength and characterof the parent stalk, height of the ear and size of the shank should benoted. The characteristics arequite generally reprotluced. Thestalk should be of good size at thebase, gradually tapering, not nec-essarily tall. Strong, vigorousstalks of medium height, in gen-eral pro
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . (Courtesy Funk Bros.) Fig. 23. THE PICKING SQUAD. Gathering seed corn in the field. HARVESTING SEED CORN. 105 During this process, consideration of the strength and characterof the parent stalk, height of the ear and size of the shank should benoted. The characteristics arequite generally reprotluced. Thestalk should be of good size at thebase, gradually tapering, not nec-essarily tall. Strong, vigorousstalks of medium height, in gen-eral produce the best ears. Thelargest, best formed, and to alarge degree, the earliest matur-ing ears, will be found at a me-dium height. The shank shouldbe of medium size and of sufficient. ^] 1 (Courtesy Successful Farm-ing) FiR. 24GOOD AND BAD 1 is an illustration ofa good stalk, well bal-anced, the ear about fourfeet from the ground,well set and drooped suf-ficiently to shed the 2 shows a ratherweak stalk with and the ear settoo high and much toonear the top. farmer should gather twice ashis fields the year following. Km 1 M^^K^^^SKb. P i C: n ^B ^^ (Courtesy Successful Farming) Fig. 25 BAD METHOD OF STORINGSEED ears are too close together forgood circulation of air, conse-quently there is danger of mould-ing and that it will not be suf-ficiently dried out to prevent freez-ing. It is much easier way to tiewith a string, as shown by Fig. the string method of tying isfollowed, a good circulation of airis afforded and the ears dry outproperly. What must be avoidedis freezing of the corn before it isdried out. The above is a commonmethod employed by many farmersin the corn belt in drying theirseed corn, and may result in moul
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