. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . the seed a poor stand was the result. The field wasreplanted with seed of the Little Yellow corn, the miss-ing hills being planted with a hoe. The corn has notbeen purposely mixed by Mr Reid since 1847, and ha?been improved by selection since that date. It is adapted to central and northern sections ofIllinois and similar latitudes. This va
. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . the seed a poor stand was the result. The field wasreplanted with seed of the Little Yellow corn, the miss-ing hills being planted with a hoe. The corn has notbeen purposely mixed by Mr Reid since 1847, and ha?been improved by selection since that date. It is adapted to central and northern sections ofIllinois and similar latitudes. This variety is of me-dium early maturity, maturing in from one hundred toone hundred and ten clays. The characteristics are veryconstant in all samples, due to the fact that they have l6 THE BOOK OF CORN been strongly impressed by fifty years selection. Thephotographs of the samples of Reids Yellow Dent, onefrom the originator, Mr J. L. Reid, the other from MrA. C. Rhoades, illustrate the uniformity of the char-acteristics running through the Reid variety. MrRhoades secured seed from Mr Reid about five yearsago, and has grown this variety without intentionalcrossing since that time. In the samples of MrRhoadess corn sent to the Illinois experiment station. Fig 4—Reids Yellow Dent Butts, tips, size of cob, depth of kernel, and shape of ears for examination, the indentation and shape of kernel,shape of ear, filling out at tips and butts, length andcircumference, size and shape of cob, are uniformlyand strongly Reid characteristics. This conditionshows very decidedly that the characteristics that havebeen impressed on this variety of corn are stronglyfixed and are uniformly reproduced. It offers one ofthe best illustrations of the effect of intelligent selec-tion, the original corn with small ears, poorly filled BOTANY AND VARIETIES IJ out and small number of rows, being changed by selec-tion to one of the most improved varieties of corngrown. Characteristics—i, ear slowly tapering;
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