. 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 . or open butts are objectionable, as are also thosewith flat, smooth, short kernels, and must be cut according to thejudgment of the scorer. 7. Each exhibit should consist of ten ears of corn. Color—The color should be either a pure yellowwith a red cob or a pure white with a white cob. Awhite cob in a yellow sample or a red cob in a whitesa
. 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 . or open butts are objectionable, as are also thosewith flat, smooth, short kernels, and must be cut according to thejudgment of the scorer. 7. Each exhibit should consist of ten ears of corn. Color—The color should be either a pure yellowwith a red cob or a pure white with a white cob. Awhite cob in a yellow sample or a red cob in a whitesample should bar the exhibit. It indicates verypoor breeding. In many cases individual kernels aretinted, the yellow with white and the white with yellowcolor. In this case it shows that a single stray pollengrain has fallen upon a single silk and fertilized thekernel. It is of little detriment to the variety andshould be judged accordingly. A rule followed by CORN JUDGING 8l many expert judges is to cut one-fourth point fortwo, one-half point for five, three-fourths point forseven and one point for ten or more, mixed white ear or cob tinted with yellow or a yellow eartinted with white must be cut according to the judg-ment of the Fig 23—Illustrating Pollen Grains Magnified. See Chapter IV Tip—The tips of the ears should not be tootapering and should be well filled with regular,uniform kernels. Where the full diameter of the cobis exposed, a cut of one point should be made and a proportionate cut as the cob is less exposed. Reg- 82 THE BOOK OF CORN ularity of the rows near the tip and the shape andsize of the kernels must also he considered in scoringtips. The failure of an ear to have the tip well filledmay be due to several things, first and most generallyto the fact that the silks are not all ready forpollenization during the period when the pollen isripe. For example, in the case of a very late ear ofcorn, the tip may not be well filled because the t
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