. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. READING THE TEST )25 corn be a little short this ear will be pushed back but a quarter length. This means that you will save all such ears and give them another test to eliminate the very weakest, and plant the best if necessary. Pass to ear No. 3. You are surprised to find an apparently sound ear has three kernels which failed to germinate. The other three are weak and growth has already ceased. You pronounce this a bad ear an
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. READING THE TEST )25 corn be a little short this ear will be pushed back but a quarter length. This means that you will save all such ears and give them another test to eliminate the very weakest, and plant the best if necessary. Pass to ear No. 3. You are surprised to find an apparently sound ear has three kernels which failed to germinate. The other three are weak and growth has already ceased. You pronounce this a bad ear and push it back three-fourths of its length in the row. Ear No. 4 shows six strong. Ear No. 5, shows six germinated, but they are all weak and one died soon after the sprout came out. This is bad and is pushed back. This ])rocess is continued, studying the out- come of each ear carefully. II is an interesting study and requires good AN EXTENSIVE TES'E More unifdi-m temperature cati be obtained when the boxes are elevated. After the two hundred ears have been classified as to condition of vitality, they should be piled up in their respective classes. The 1)ad ears had better be fed to the stock at once to prevent any chance of their becoming mixed with the good seed through carelessness or the mistake of helpers. The weak ears should be rearranged on the floor in another room, or any place out of the way, and another test run for them. Mr. Burnett found that it cost $ to test one hundred ears by the sawdust-box method, allowing 20 cents per hour for two hours' labor in testing, and 80 cents for the cost of buying the material and making (he box. This refers to tlie msl <,f the first dtic hundred, subsequent tests cost Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bowman, Melville Le
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