Report1908- . there is a limit or not, it is clear that as a corn growingstate and country we have not as yet arrived half way to the limitand further progress necessitates more work and more careful work. Corn shows, corn trains, corn bulletins, and corn lectures areg-ood things, but in themselves they do not increase the number ofbushels per acre. They arouse interest, but if the actual field work ANNUAL REPORT 17 is not performed the quality of our corn and our yields decline. Itis the actual production, selection and perpetuation of the best andthe weeding- out of the undesirabl
Report1908- . there is a limit or not, it is clear that as a corn growingstate and country we have not as yet arrived half way to the limitand further progress necessitates more work and more careful work. Corn shows, corn trains, corn bulletins, and corn lectures areg-ood things, but in themselves they do not increase the number ofbushels per acre. They arouse interest, but if the actual field work ANNUAL REPORT 17 is not performed the quality of our corn and our yields decline. Itis the actual production, selection and perpetuation of the best andthe weeding- out of the undesirable that will produce profitable re-sults. The history of methods andoperations in general show, that withcertain crude methods, a limit of progress may be reached, beyondwhich further progress is possible by an improvement in have improved our methods, further improvement is possible,but the present need is not so much an improvement of our methodsas it is a more g^eneral application of good The Large Piles Were Produced by Ears Selected from High Yielding Parents -the Alternating and Smaller Piles by Ears Selected Because of Their Fine Appearance. At present only a very small percentag^e of farmers are usingany sj^stematic method for improving corn, or bettering the qualit}^of the seed they plant. We can not hope for the general averageproduction of a whole state to be materially increased till a con-siderable percentage of farmers apply g^ood methods of seed cornproduction, selection and preservation. Through the efforts ofthis organization, your State Experiment Station, your University,and the Department of Agriculture there has been as mucheffective field work in corn breeding performed per square mile inOhio as in any state. It is exceeding-ly encouraging that the yieldsobtained by the small percentage who are applying- corn improve-ment methods are about double those of the entire State. The 18 OHIO CORN IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
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