Corn secrets . ield to propagate their kind. Ear No. 6 is one of thekind that fools us, when we attempt to judge by the eye and the jack-knifemethod. Ear No. 6 was planted by the side of ear No. 3 but yielded less thanhalf the corn in the fall. If we buy the germination boxes and the cloth and hire the work done itwill not cost to exceed sixteen cents per acre to test every ear for seed. Fig. 19. Rows From Separate Ears.—-Test each ear of seed before plantingtime and discard the dead ones. Dont GUESS but TEST. Each row in this field was planted from a different ear of corn. The rowon the left
Corn secrets . ield to propagate their kind. Ear No. 6 is one of thekind that fools us, when we attempt to judge by the eye and the jack-knifemethod. Ear No. 6 was planted by the side of ear No. 3 but yielded less thanhalf the corn in the fall. If we buy the germination boxes and the cloth and hire the work done itwill not cost to exceed sixteen cents per acre to test every ear for seed. Fig. 19. Rows From Separate Ears.—-Test each ear of seed before plantingtime and discard the dead ones. Dont GUESS but TEST. Each row in this field was planted from a different ear of corn. The rowon the left on which the man is standing is fine; the row on which the otherman is standing is good; but the middle row, or the one between them, is almostworthless. The testers GUESSED IT WOULD GROW. 22 CORN SECRETS Fig. 20. Rows From Different Ears of Corn. Another Guess Thatthe Ears Were All Right.—The right row has a perfect stand of corn, the leftrow is nearly worthless, the middle row has only about half a Fig. 1921. Rows From Separate Ears of Fig. 21. Rows From Separate Ears of Seed.—The right-hand row isscarcely waist high, while the left-hand row is shoulder high, almost completely
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