. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. a very common practice to select the occasional good ears found throughout the entire husking season. There are three important reasons why this should not be done. In the first place, we are more likely to neglect the work until too late, when we find ourselves without good seed for the next year. Again, many of the kernels on these good ears, selected throughout the entire field or season, have necessarily been fertilized by pollen from the scrub stalks and those which are perhaps barren. In other words, we have simply select- ed a good female, but know not
. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. a very common practice to select the occasional good ears found throughout the entire husking season. There are three important reasons why this should not be done. In the first place, we are more likely to neglect the work until too late, when we find ourselves without good seed for the next year. Again, many of the kernels on these good ears, selected throughout the entire field or season, have necessarily been fertilized by pollen from the scrub stalks and those which are perhaps barren. In other words, we have simply select- ed a good female, but know nothing of the character of the male stalks from which the pollen came that fertilized the kernels. On the other hand, if our seed is all selected from the seed patch planted only from the very best ears, we are much more certain of good parents on both sides. One of the most serious results from depending on the occasional good ear found throughout the entire husking season is that many of the fields are late and the corn immature and the husks will prevent the corn from drying out properly and, as a conse- quence, it is frozen before it is husked, or at least before it has had time to dry out after husking. Again, we often begin harvesting our poorest fields first and delay saving seed until we come to our "best ; There are several cautions which should be observed in the storing of seed Fig. 56—Height of Ears. As extremely high ears tend to be later than those lower down, they should not be used for seed purposes. Ears, on the other hand, that are too low, tend to • extreme earliness, and as these two classes do not mature well together, they should be avoided, and none but ears borne at a uniform height should be used for 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 Hol
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