No. 7. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



449 



Such cards have been adopted by all of the corn breeders associa- 

 tions, and while those of some associations differ in minor detail* 

 from those of others, in the essentials they are all much the same. 

 The purpose of the score card is to aid the judges to arrive at a just 

 conclusion as to the relative merits of samples or exhibits of corn. 

 Both practice and sound sense are necessary to enable one to use 

 the score card correctly. If exhibitors thoroughly understood the 

 characteristics called for in the score card, it would doubtless greatly 

 aid them in the selection of ears for exhibition purposes and would 

 tend to raise the standard of our corn shows. All exhibitors should 

 uae care in the handling- and shipping of corn so that it will not 

 be bruised or shelled. It should be perfectly free from dust or dirt 

 and unbleached by sun or rain. Each exhibit should be plainly 

 labeled, stating in what class it is to compete, and giving the name 

 of the variety, the name of the grower and the locality where grown. 

 Express charges should always be prepaid and the packages ad- 

 dressed to the person in charge of the exhibit, giving the name of 

 hall or place of exhibit, with street and number if in a city so 

 that the express company may deliver to the place of exhibition. 

 The exhibits should be arranged on long narrow tables or benches 

 which are sufficiently low so the judges may bond over each and ex- 

 amine both tips and butts of ears. All samples of one class should 

 be brought together and good light should fall uniformly on all 

 exhibits. 



SCORE CARD CLASS G— GRANGE EXHIBITS. 





Exhibt Number. 



Uniformity of exhibit and 

 trueness to type 



Market and seed condi- 

 tions 



Shape of ears 



Color: 



Kernels, 



Cob 



Tips 



Butts 



Length 



Circumference 



Kernels: 



Shape 



Uniformity 



Furrows between kernels. 



Space at cob 



Percentage of grain 



10 



10 

 6 



5 

 5 

 5 

 6 

 5 

 6 



10 



10 



5 



6 



15 



MILK PRODUCTION. 



By DR. H. H. DEAN, O. A. CoUege, Canada. 



Burke said: "A great Empire and little minds go ill together." 

 You are part, not of a great Empire, but of a great Republic, there- 

 fore, I take it we have before us, not men of little minds, but men 

 of broad intellect — fitting bulwarks of a great State and of a great 



29—7—1908. 



