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with its optimum distancing at Edgecombe, yielded 13 bushels more 

 than Holt's Strawberry at 40 inches ; while at the Iredell Farm 

 AA^eekley's Improved, with the stalks spaced 36 inches in the row, 

 produced 4.2 bushels per acre in excess of Holt's Strawberry at its 

 most favorable distancing. 



Which of Two Ears on Stalks to Select for Seed. 



In the selection of seed corn from stalks bearing two or more ears 

 per stalk, the selections should be made from those stalks that have 



Fig. 7— Type kernels of varieties: (1) Holt's Strawberry; (2) Mosby's Prolific: (3) Sanders' Im- 

 proved; (4) Southern Beauty: (5) Eureka; (6) Hastings' Prolific: (7) Selection 77; (8) Iowa Silver Mine; 

 (9) Boone County White; ( 10) Reid's Yellow Dent; (11) Riley's Favorite; and (12) Learning Yellow. 



the ears of a uniformly convenient height for gathering and of those 

 ears on the stalks that possess the greatest number of desirable char- 

 acteristics. Most investigators in this country who have made care- 

 ful field tests and kept accurate records with this cereal are pretty 

 uniformly of the opinion that the top ear, being usually the best 

 shaped and matured, is the one, as a general rule, to be preferred for 

 seed purposes. However, with present knowledge on the subject it 

 will be well to select for seed all the ears on stalks bearing two 

 ears per stalk, if the ears are well shaped and thoroughly ma- 



