Show SELECTING CORN FOR SEED technical knowledge on part of farmer not necessary for improvement of his crop by J M anay the possibilities of improvement of corn by judicious selection are very great ever since man has been tilling the soil he has baa changed the character of plants by consciously or unconsciously making selections ther tha improvement of any plant Is considered by most farmers a very difficult operation and one to be undertaken only by those who are qualified fled by na naturally nat ability and special training to er L X A north carolina boy and hta his bushels of crib dry corn grown on one acre of land work yet it does not require any technical knowledge on the part of the farmer to improve corn tor for the methods of 0 selection select loa are very simple every farmer who is growing corn should plant some standard variety which he knows has baa been tested and gives the most profitable yields in hla locality and from this he should select each year seed that comes nearest to his ideal it la Is necessary to mike make this selection each year because it if it Is riot not done the corn will soon revert to the original type and loso lose those qualities which the farmer has been striving to get in your selections tlona instead of looking tor for an ideal ear only look for an ideal deal stalk made up of an ideal stem of ideal foliage and of an ideal root system bearing an ideal ear or ears covered with ideal husks and supported by an ideal shank possibly this will be hard bard to find but you can find something which approaches it and from this with your ideal in view you can select continuously until you have a plant very nearly approaching that ideal |