| Show SELECTING CORN FOR FO R SEED technical knowledge on part of farm er not necessary Nece wary for improvement men of his crop by J M gnat GIUY the possibilities or improvement or of corn by jud judicious acl ous IL selection are very great ever since man has been tilling the soil the he has changed the character of plants by consciously or unconsciously making selections the tha improvement of any plant in considered by most moat formers farmers a very difficult operation and one to be ba undertaken undertake 4 only by those who are qualified by natural a ability and special training to such euch A north carolina day do and HI his a bushels bushel of crib dry corn grown on one acre of lund land vork yet ll it does not require tiny any technical knowledge on the tb part of tho the farmer to improve corn for the moth odb of selection are very simple every farmer who to la growing corn should plant some standard variety var lety which ho bo knows has been tested and gives fives the most profitable yields in his locality and from this he be should select each year seed that comes nearest to his ideal it Is necessary to make this selection each year because beca usei it if it to Is not done tho the corn will boort revert to tho the original type and lose those qualities which the farmer has bas been striving to get i in your selections instead of looking for an ideal ear car only look for an ideal stalk made up of an ideal item of 0 f ideal foliage and A ad of an ideal root lay system stern bearing an ideal ear or ears eara covered will ideal husks and supported hy by an ideal shank possibly this will be liard hard 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 n plant very nearly approaching that ideal |
