. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 64 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE they have found that three stalks to a hill give the best yields. Even Seed.—Farmers can get even corn to plant by selecting even, straight rowed ears of corn, and by shelling off the tip and butt kernels, using this part for feed and sav- ing only the more even kernels from the middle of the ears to plant. The whole crop on an acre of corn depends on a few ears of sceil corn. Questions: 1. Do the size and shai)o of korncls of seed corn make any differ- ence to the farincu-? 2. How can fanners i>;et even sood corn? 3. If
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 64 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE they have found that three stalks to a hill give the best yields. Even Seed.—Farmers can get even corn to plant by selecting even, straight rowed ears of corn, and by shelling off the tip and butt kernels, using this part for feed and sav- ing only the more even kernels from the middle of the ears to plant. The whole crop on an acre of corn depends on a few ears of sceil corn. Questions: 1. Do the size and shai)o of korncls of seed corn make any differ- ence to the farincu-? 2. How can fanners i>;et even sood corn? 3. If the tip kernels were put into a planter, would it drop too many or too few? Arithmetic: 1. After the tip and butt kernels of corn have been shelled off from an ear, count the number of rows of kernels; then count the num- ber of kernels in one row. How many kernels on the (>ar of corn? 2. Find how many hills of corn on an acre when corn is planted in hills 3 ft. 8 in. apart each way. Note.—^There are 1(50 sq rds. in an acre, and each hill of corn takes up 3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. or 13 4-9 sq. ft. of space. 3. If three kernels are planted in each hill, liow many ears of corn like the one; you counted are recjuired to plant an acre? PARTS OF A KERNEL OF CORN Examining Kernels.—It is not always easy to believe that there is a quite complete, tliough small, corn plant in (^ach kernel of corn. If you will dissect a few kernels of corn, they will furnish a very good object-lesson. A kernel of corn consists of three parts —an outside shell or seed coat, a little speck of life, or the embryo, and about the embryo a white, starchy sub- stance or food portion. The seed coat may be easily removcMl fiom a kernel of corn that has l)een soaked for a few minutes in hot water. It is hard and tough. Its. Figure 24.—Parts of kernel of flint corn. 1. Side on which the em- bryo is found. 2. Side opposite the embryo. 3. Kernel with em- bryo and seed coat removed. 4. The embryo. 5. S
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