Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . cording in some meas-ure the progress made in the selection work, so far at least ascertain ear characters are concerned. There will be presentedsome photographs of the ears selected in 1907 for planting in1908, together with a brief discussion of their progeny in should be said that in all cases where an ear shown in thesephotographs is crooked it became so in drying, and was not sooriginally. The corn was dried on racks so constructed thateach ear was thrust, at the butt end, on a nail projecting fromthe rack. The weight of
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . cording in some meas-ure the progress made in the selection work, so far at least ascertain ear characters are concerned. There will be presentedsome photographs of the ears selected in 1907 for planting in1908, together with a brief discussion of their progeny in should be said that in all cases where an ear shown in thesephotographs is crooked it became so in drying, and was not sooriginally. The corn was dried on racks so constructed thateach ear was thrust, at the butt end, on a nail projecting fromthe rack. The weight of the ear itself caused some to curve inthe process of drying. Figures 224 and 225 show two groups of ears selected in 1907,one of which produced relatively high yielding rows, and theother relatively low yielding rows. It is instructive to compare individual ears. Ear No. 113(Fig. 224) while bearing almost identically the same amountof shelled corn as ear No. i (Fig. 225) ( gr., as gr.) produced a row yielding at the rate of bushels.
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