. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. CORN GROWING 219 fully measured or weighed the following fall. All future seed com is saved only from the heavy yielding rows. The best ears are selected and planted again by this method. Danger of Mixing.—As the pollen of corn is carried by wind for some distance there is danger in planting two varie- ties too near each other. Any pure, well-selected corn should be grown separately to avoid crossing. When corn has once become pure o
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. CORN GROWING 219 fully measured or weighed the following fall. All future seed com is saved only from the heavy yielding rows. The best ears are selected and planted again by this method. Danger of Mixing.—As the pollen of corn is carried by wind for some distance there is danger in planting two varie- ties too near each other. Any pure, well-selected corn should be grown separately to avoid crossing. When corn has once become pure or well fixed in character by methods of selection and good breeding, it is very bad policy to allow any crossing of varieties of strains to take place. Such a practice imme-. FlG. 122.—Country Gentleman is one of the best varieties of sweet corn, medium in season, (Pedigreed Seed Co., Hartsville, South Carolina.) diately sets up variations in the product which niake it impos- sible for the corn breeder to know what to expect. Sweet corn must not be grown near field corn, for the same reasons (Fig. 123). RAISING THE CHOP In the corn club work in most of the states the plots used in the contests do not exceed one acre. As small a plot as one-tenth acre has been specified in some contests. One- quarter and one-half acre plots are frequently used. The size of plot should be governed somewhat by the age of young people admitted to the corn clubs. The first plowing of the ground is usually done by some older person, but the harrow-. 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 Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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