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show corn. The live stock men said to feed corn. But if you will 

 feed the corn plant right you will have more and better corn to feed 

 to the live stock. Moreover, the breeder of seed corn should pay 

 attention to feeding the plants. For in one season proper feeding 

 'of the plants will produce more difference in the amount and con- 

 figuration of the product than many years of selection alone. 



Many corn breeders believe that manure and clover are all that 

 is necessary to produce the best seed corn, and in most of the dis- 

 cussions and addresses about improving corn little or no attention 

 is given to the matter of providing the right kind of plant food in 

 available form. It is on this account that buyers of well bred seed 

 corn often fail to get the expected returns. The cuts will illustrate 

 this better than any argument or long description. 



The corn was planted on the same day, from the same seed, in 



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Showing the part of com field which has received repeated applications of manure, clover 

 and bone. Note short weak stocks and nearness of ears to the ground. 



the same field and received the same cultivation. The pictures were 

 taken on the same day, and the points photographed are not over 

 200 feet apart. The repeated application of manure and clover 

 has put the soil of the field in excellent mechanical condition, and 

 the repeated application of the bone has more than maintained the 

 •supply of phosphoric acid. 



