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On the heavy loam clay and clay loam soils of the piedmont and 

 mountain sections rotation 'No. Ill is recommended in the production 

 of the corn crop. In this rotation wheat is sown in the fall and red 

 clover is sown in the spring on the fall-sown grain and allowed to occupy 

 the land that year and the year following. In the fall of the following 

 year, after the first crop of clover has been cut for hay, the second crop, 

 bearing the seed, should be turned under for corn the following year. 

 Wheat may follow corn in the fall and the cycle repeated. 



SUGGESTED CROP ROTATION FOR CORN CULTURE IN NORTH CARO- 

 LINA ON RED SOILS OF PIEDMONT AND YELLOW SOILS OF THE 



MOUNTAIN SECTIONS. 



No. III. 



First year Wheat j Clover Corn. 



Second year Clover Corn Wheat. 



Third year Corn ] Wheat Clover. 



CORN JUDGING— SCORE-CARD. 



It has been well said that the highest and only purpose of the corn 

 judge is to give first rank to that sample which, in his estimation, is 

 capable of producing more corn of better quality than any other sample 

 on exhibition. 



But on what basis does the judge make his decision? "At the great 

 corn exhibit at the Chicago Exposition in 1886, five expert judges 

 worked some days in preparing a scale of points to guide them in their 

 decisions."* This was the first use of the score-card. Since then a 

 number of States have adopted score-cards which seemed best suited to 

 the corns grown by the farmers in their different localities. 



The purpose of the score-card should be to convey to the mind the 

 essential points to be considered in examining an ear, sample, or an 

 exhibit of corn ; to impress the relative value of these points ; to explain 

 their exact meaning, and show why they mean so much. 



Many changes have been msde in the original score-card, and still we 

 question w^hether it has been correlated with the farmer's practice in a 

 way to be of the most benefit to him. 



A properly constructed score-card should be a criterion by which to 

 judge not only the sample of corn at the corn show, but, through this 

 sample, the real progress made by the farmer in actual corn production. 



The following suggested score-card for IN'orth Carolina conditions is 

 submitted in the hope that it may bring out some points not hitherto 

 properly stressed in corn-judging contests. 



*Corn (Bowman and Crossly) , page 405. 



