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EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



of properly cured corn, aud this in face of the fact that the crib corn 

 may show a hundred per cent of germination. The relatively damp 

 condition, and the occasional or continued freezing of winter make 

 Ijerfect vitality and vigor impossible. In an ordinary test, rack dried 

 corn germinated ninety-nine per cent; crib corn tested seventy-seven per 

 cent. The Avinter had been a very mild one, too. See Figs. 3 and 4. 



TESTING OF SEED CORN. 



It is a good practice to test the germinating quality of every ear of 

 the seed one is planning to sow. The undertaking is not a difficult 

 Fig. 11 shows a germinator used by the farm department of the 



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Fig. 11- — Galvanized iron germinator. Small'Snotches are cut in the rim'at intervals of IJ inclies to 

 carry the string- or wire which divides the germinating, surface, into 1-J inch' squares. Tliis 

 figure shows four rows of kernels in place. 







Fig. 12. — Same as figure 11, after four days. 





Fig. 13. — Same as figure 11, after seven days. 



