. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. Fig. 28—Three Stalks in One Hill fiom Three Different Ears. These kernels all had the same opportunity except that they weie from three different ears—had different parents. Anyone who will study a dozen corn fields in his vicinity will be convinced of the tremendous losses from missing stalks and from those that are weak or entiiely Fig. 27—These Two Hills are From Two Dif- ferent Ears of Corn. The hill at the left is from an ear whose kernels, when tested in the germination box, showed rather weak stem and root sprouts. Note the difference in th
. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. Fig. 28—Three Stalks in One Hill fiom Three Different Ears. These kernels all had the same opportunity except that they weie from three different ears—had different parents. Anyone who will study a dozen corn fields in his vicinity will be convinced of the tremendous losses from missing stalks and from those that are weak or entiiely Fig. 27—These Two Hills are From Two Dif- ferent Ears of Corn. The hill at the left is from an ear whose kernels, when tested in the germination box, showed rather weak stem and root sprouts. Note the difference in the root systems of these two plants. not be tested. You cannot injure the corn by testing six kernels from each ear before shelling it. It costs nothing but a little time, of which there is plenty at the season when it should be done. One man can be put over to test enough for thirty acres in one day. If were charged per day, for all the work it would cost less than ten cents per acre; yet because it is "too much bother" we will guess that the eight hundred ker- nels on the ear are strong and vigorous. On hundreds of farms in Iowa last spring the boys and girls laid out the ears, removed the ker- nels, prepared the germina- tion box, put the kernels in the squares, and later helped in examining the sprouted corn and discarding the ears that showed the weak sprouts. Weak seed means missing hills, one-stalk hills and weak and barren stalks; it means twenty-five bushels per acre for the United States instead of fifty bush- els; it means wasted labor and wasted land. We have tested the seed for thou- sands of acres each year, and I realize how much it -32—. 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 Holden, P. G. (Perry Greeley), 1865-1959. Springfield, O. , The Simmons publishing co.
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