Corn secrets

Dedication

TO EVERY CORN GROWER WHO LOVES HIS WORK AND STRIVES TO DO IT BETTER THIS YEAR THAN LAST, THIS LITTLE BOOK ON CORN IS MOST SINCERELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

The Four Essentials

Orders for Harvesting, Testing, Grading and Improving Corn

II Will it Ripen ?

Size of Ear 6

Depth of Kernels 4

Sappiness 3

Chaffiness 3

Starchiness 3

Size of Cob 2

Plumpness of Tips of Kernels 2

Adherence of Chaff to

Tip Caps of Kernels 1

Adherence of Tip Caps to Cob 1

* Under the head of "Will it Yield?" are given several points such as Size of Ear, Solidity, Depth of Kernels, etc. These are simply indications that it will or will not yield well. In a like manner under the other headings "Will it Ripen?" "Will it Grow?" etc., are a number of indications.

fThe figures 1, 2, 3 to 10 at the top of the page refer to the different samples being judged. No. 1 may be Mr. Smith's sample, No. 2 Mr. Brown's, No. 3 Mr. Jones', etc.

I The figures 6, 4, 3, 3, 2, etc., are to indicate the relative importance of the different points or "indications."

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III. WILL IT GROW ? 25 POINTS.

That is, has it vitality ; will it germinate ; will it all grow and grow uniformly, giving strong, vigorous plants?

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Will it Grow?

Color and Condition of

Germ and Embryo 10

Sappiness 3

Chaffiness 3

Starchiness 2

Moldiness of Cob 1

Plumpness of Tips of Kernels 1

Size of Germs 1

Smoothness of back of Kernels 1

Smoothness of Germs 1

Adherence of Chaff

to Tip Caps 1

Adherence of Tip Caps to Cob 1

IV. DOES IT SHOW IMPROVEMENT. 25 POINTS.

That is, has it breeding; has it a distinct type; will it reproduce itself; has it several years of careful selection and improvement back of it?