. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. 33, 41 and 47 failed to grow. These ears should be dis- carded. Ears 32, 46, and 29 are illustrations of weak ears. Do not fail to throw out all such as these. If the condi- tions are unfavorable they will fail to grow, or, growing, will produce only weak stalks, bearing nothing or only small, inferior ears. Nos. 3, 34, 35 and 45 are especially vigorous, and will give a good stand of ear-producing stalks. But this does not, by any means, measure the damage done by these inferior stalks. They produce millions of grains of pollen to drift over the field to fert
. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. 33, 41 and 47 failed to grow. These ears should be dis- carded. Ears 32, 46, and 29 are illustrations of weak ears. Do not fail to throw out all such as these. If the condi- tions are unfavorable they will fail to grow, or, growing, will produce only weak stalks, bearing nothing or only small, inferior ears. Nos. 3, 34, 35 and 45 are especially vigorous, and will give a good stand of ear-producing stalks. But this does not, by any means, measure the damage done by these inferior stalks. They produce millions of grains of pollen to drift over the field to fertilize the silks of ears on vigorous stalks, thus continuing their worth- lessness from generation to generation. If six kernels from every ear intended for planting on every farm in the United States were tested in a ger- mination box in March and all the weak ones discarded, it would add hundreds of mil- lions of bushels to the corn crop of the United States annually. There is no one thing that costs so little and would add so much to the profits of every farmer. There is no good reason why every ear should. Fig. 24—Samples of Seed Corn Sent in by Two Different Farmers. In 1906 more than sixteen hundred sam- ples of coin were sent in for germination tests by the farmers of the state. Two tests of twenty-five kernels each were made of each man's corn; in many cases three tests were made. These two samples (632 and 73s) were put over to test side by side at the same time. Notice the great difference in the strength and vigor of both stem and root sprouts. Twenty-three of the twenty-five kernels from farmer No. 632 were very strong and only two were weak. Only fifteen of the twenty-five kernels from farmer No. 735 gave strong sprouts, three were weak and seven were worthless. On the basis of one hundred kernels the tests are: Sample 623, ninety- two per cent, strong, eight per cent weak, none worthess; sample 735, sixty per cent, strong, twelve per cent, weak and twenty- eight
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