Show OF CORN COHN contamination OF SILKS BY FOREIGN POLLEN AVOIDED tassel Is covered while still immature and before anthers have protruded with ten pound manila paper sack dy by 11 II 1 ROBERTS in the breeding ot of corn some dian altu are encountered in the tech of pollination in respect to tire tho prevention of contamination of tho the silks bilks b foreign pollen carrier carried on tho hands or of the opera tor as he goes irom from plant to plant engaged in the work of artificial pol li nation lin atlon to oblate thise difficulties the follo lol loping ing method has been den demised ased by the ariter and liaa has been used with success tho the simplicity of the meth 0 od d ind and its complete effectiveness seem t to 0 justiss a description tho the ta tassel tasel sel Is covered cohered while still immature and before the anthers have protruded with mith a tenpo ten pound una manilla paper sack rack such as ab is 13 commonly common li U used sed in grocery stores the mouth ot of this sack back is securely gathered around the stalk beneath the tassel and pinned with ill a rather i stout long pin ardt riar nar pins are too small the tha ear is JikeN likewise flo covered with a similar sack which is drawn over the top of 0 the ear folded around the stalk on the opposite side and the folds pinned the sacking of the ear must be done before the silks have begun in the least to protrude from the husks oth ellse pollination of the protruding silks from vagrant pollen Is almost almos t certain to occur when the silks have grown 1 to 0 a length of five or six rix inches within tho the hick back the ear Is usually in the best condition tor for pollination since by that time most moat of the silks have grown out the first silks to appear are those from the basal baisal kernels and so on progressively outward the tip silks being the last to develop in natural wind ind pollination of corn the pollen Is blowing about the field tor for a period of a week eek or ten days during which aich time the drifting pollen falls on the successive silks as they appear in artificial pollination it if but a single application of the pollen is made bat manner of sacking tassels cassels and ears for pollination arall call those silks i kill III be pollin cited which happen to bo be den developed eloped and receptive at the time the con sequence Is a nubbin ear for this reason the same ear is usually gone over oner by the pollinator two or three times in order to secure tho the success ful pollination of the greatest possible number of silks in the method devised by the vy writer riter it is believed that i L greater number of 0 silks can be reached in one pollina tion and that the danger of nation from foreign pollen is 13 eliminated the pollen Is ap phea to the silks by means of a corn mon insect powder gun or spring blower the blower Is oiled filled with nith anthers and pollen from the sack taken from the tassel the latter being bent over and rapped sharply to secure the shaking ott off of the loose anthers arid and pollen in the sack the pollen is of course mixed with the mass ot of empei anthers from which it has been shed iso 0 special care however hove vcr need be taken to get the pollen separated from the anthers but having the nose of the blower cut down to a length of halt half an inch an anthers which may chance to clog the bozyle can earll be pushed out with a pin As a matter of tact fact for or the most part the blast expels pollen and anthers together without difficulty |