one-third, but has been reduced to less than 10 per cent in five years. 

 If you find a stalk of corn you deem desirable for seed, detassel all 

 undesirable stalks within ten feet of it, or you may have for your 

 seed the very stalk you deem most undesirable. Careful attention to 

 this matter will do much to increase the quality and quantity of 

 corn in this State next year. 



SCORE-CARD FOR JUDGING CORaST. 



The associations determined the points desired in an ear of corn of 

 a specified type, and arranged them in groups of 100 points, to be 

 used in judging corn. The score-cards are not uniform in all the 

 States. The following table shows the cards of the respective States 

 named : 



NORTH CAROLINA SCORE-CARD. 



The following score-card was approved by the North Carolina 

 Board of Agriculture at its session June 9, 1910, for use in corn- 

 judging contests in North Carolina: 



