Show SELECTING CORN FOR SEED technical knowledge on part ot of farmer not necessary for improvement of his crop mi gi J INT GRAY the possibilities of improvement of 0 corn b by judicious selection are nery iery great ener eer since man has been till ing the soil he has changed the character of 0 plants by consciously or un consciously making selections the improvement of any plant is considered by most farmers a very difficult operation and one to be undertaken only by those abo he are qualified by natural ability and special training to such A north carolina boy and his bushels of crib dry corn grown on one acre of land work nork yet it does not require any technical knowledge on the part ot of the farmer to improve corn tor for the methods of selection are very simple eiery ei cry farmer who is growing corn should plant some standard variety fabich aich ho he ano knos As has been tested and gives the most profitable yields in his hia locality and from this ho he should select each lear ear seed that comes nearest to his ideal it Is necessary to make this selection each year because it it is not done the corn will soon revert to the original type and lose logo those qualities the farmer has been striving to get in your our selections instead of 0 looking for an ai ideal ear only look tor for an ideal stalk mide made up of an ideal stem of ideal foliage and of an ideal root system bearing an ideal ear or ears cars cohered nith ideal husks and supported t ed by an ideal ide al shank possibly this will be hard to 11 ind find but sou 3 on can find something naich approaches it and from thin thi 11 luth ith our ideal in view you cin select continuously until you haie a pi int very ver nearly approaching that ideal |