Show Specialists Tell of Improved Improve l Pop Pon Corn Variety Pops to Twenty Twenty- TwentySix Six Times imes Its Volume Pop corn specialists have ha surpassed sun sur ur passed the record of ot two blades of at grass gruss- gruss for one Through selection they have produced a new strain which pops to 26 20 times Its volume The new strain a yellow pear pearl pop corn named Sunburst was produced produced pro pro- during a year seven period by agronomists of or the United States D Department of ot Agriculture In operation co-operation with the Kansas agricultural experiment t station They pro produced uce the new strain by testing ears of at pop corn and retaining retaining re reo for tor seed the ones which ga e gave the greatest volume of popped corn The test consisted of popping popping popping pop pop- ping a n sample of ot the seed from each of the selected ears and measurIng measuring meas meas- the volume of ot the resulting popped corn Each sample was also tasted fasted for flavor and texture The remainder of the seed on the good ears was kept and planted the following year The process was then drew rep repeated Although the testing was a a. a long Job It proved provell worth the effort In producing better popping corn It tool tool took one man an a day to test from GOto GO CO COto GOto to 75 i ears cans of ot corn However er the new new str strain ln showed showe nn an average of 20 26 times the volume of the Hie seed see when hen popper popped while Queen Queer Golden the variety ty from which the Sunburst Sunburst Sun Sun- b burst was developed e c gives slightly mor more than tha 19 times the volume of the grain Such careful of seed while not practical for the small grow grower r has possibilities es for the commercial grower rower of ot pop corn seed declare the agronomists who made mad the Kansas test |