Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . oggin Oxford Androscoggin Oxford Knox Waldo Oxford Oxford Oxford York Penobscot Oxford Oxford Somerset Franklin Oxford Oxford Cumberland .Kennebec. ... Oxford Androscoggin Kennebec Penobscot Franklin Franklin Oxford Oxford Waldo Cumberland . .Kennebec .... Oxford Somerset York Kennebec AndroscogginCumberland . Total
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . oggin Oxford Androscoggin Oxford Knox Waldo Oxford Oxford Oxford York Penobscot Oxford Oxford Somerset Franklin Oxford Oxford Cumberland .Kennebec. ... Oxford Androscoggin Kennebec Penobscot Franklin Franklin Oxford Oxford Waldo Cumberland . .Kennebec .... Oxford Somerset York Kennebec AndroscogginCumberland . Total These four fields were planted from the same lot of seed. To each of the persons mentioned in the above table we wishto express our thanks for the aid which they rendered in carry-ing- out this farm distribution test. ]iXPE;RIMi;NTS IN BRIJEDING SWElJT CORN. 287 The geographical distribution of the corn growers in this testis shown graphicahy in Fig. 231 which gives (as sohd dots)the location of each grower on an outline map of the Fig. 231. Outline map of Maine with scale of miles showing by blackdots the approximate location of each plot of corn grown in the 1909farm distribution test. 288 Maine; agricultural lxplrimlnt station. 1910. The plan by which the seed was distributed to the growerswas as follows: When the 1908 ear-to-row test plots wereharvested the corn from each row was kept separate and sortedinto Ai seed, good seed and nubbins (cf. p. 266). Taking allfactors into account the 44 rows regarded as the best by us wereselected for the farm distribution test. Then after rejectingthe corn shelled from nubbins and ears too poor to go in as seed,the AI seed and good seed from each of these 44 rows was puttogether in a bag. Each bag then contained the seed from onerow of the 1908 ear-to-row tests, and the row in turn was grownfrom one single original mother ear of the 1907 crop. Onesuch bag of seed was given to each farmer for planting, withstric
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