Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 Figure 21.—Good ears of corn, with straight rows and even kernels. Figure 22.—Poor ears of corn. Note the crooked rows and irregular ker- nels. Examine a com planter, if possible, to see how it drops the corn. ^ , . n , • j It is very important to the farmer that all his seed corn be uniform in size, because corn is now planted by machines and unless the kernels are about the same size and shape the machine cannot drop the same number in eac
Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 Figure 21.—Good ears of corn, with straight rows and even kernels. Figure 22.—Poor ears of corn. Note the crooked rows and irregular ker- nels. Examine a com planter, if possible, to see how it drops the corn. ^ , . n , • j It is very important to the farmer that all his seed corn be uniform in size, because corn is now planted by machines and unless the kernels are about the same size and shape the machine cannot drop the same number in each hill. If uneven sized kernels were used for planting, the number in a hill would vary as the num- ber of kernels you were able to place in the cir- cles you drew varied. Most farmers like to plant three kernels in a hill, because Figure 23.—Relative size and shape of tip, middle and butt kernels of corn The circle represents the hole in the plate in a corn planter, with the number of ker- nels of different sizes that a planter would drop. Photo by H. D. Ayer.
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