. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 80 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE touch and heavy, not light and chaffy. Loose or soft ker- nels indicate immature ears, which must be avoided, as corn from such ears is not likely to germinate and, if the kernels do germinate, the plants are likely to be weak. The kernels should be bright in color and free from mold or inj ury. Shape of Ear.—Ears should be uniform in shape and size, and each ear should be as nearly the same size at tip and butt as possible. The tips should be well filled out, as this indicates hardiness and well matured corn. Large butts s
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 80 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE touch and heavy, not light and chaffy. Loose or soft ker- nels indicate immature ears, which must be avoided, as corn from such ears is not likely to germinate and, if the kernels do germinate, the plants are likely to be weak. The kernels should be bright in color and free from mold or inj ury. Shape of Ear.—Ears should be uniform in shape and size, and each ear should be as nearly the same size at tip and butt as possible. The tips should be well filled out, as this indicates hardiness and well matured corn. Large butts should be avoided as they indicate coarseness and are hard to dry out. There are, also, more irregular kernels on these large butts than on properly formed butts. Size of Ear.—The size of ears will depend upon the variety and the locality. But do not select too large ears, as they will have a tendency to make the variety later, which may result in considerable loss in unfavorable sea- sons. Select the medium sized, well matured ears as nearly uniform in size as possible. Kernels.—Ears with kernels as nearly uniform in type as possible should ])e selected. There are good ears of corn with (lifferent types of kernels, but for any one variety it is important that the ker- nels be uniform, as only such kernels can be plant- ed uniformly by machin- ery. The most desirable kernels are deep, indicat- ing a large amount of corn in proportion to cob, but t he point can be overdone, as deep kerneled varieties are usually late in ripening. Figure 33.—The ear on the left represents SpaCe bctweeil KemelS. a good type to select for seed It has J^ Jc^ dcsirablc tO have even, regular rows and kernels and a . , good proportion of corn to cob. The ear jUSt aS mUCh COm arOUUCl Zd'^'^^J^"'""^'''"'''"''''''"'' the cob as possible; con- i>j|JHW. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
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