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Rural School Leaflet 



of increasing yield or improving quality. It might be well to suggest 

 to parents that they have the boys and girls help them in selecting seed 

 corn for another year. 



We shall publish in the November leaflet for children further infor- 

 mation regarding Corn Day, selection of ears of corn, preparation of 

 the exhibit, and the forwarding of prize ears to the College of Agriculture. 

 We shall ask to have the two best ears of corn from each school sent to 

 represent the school at our Farmers' Week exhibit — the best ear of 



A rural school exhibit. Farmers' Week at the New York State College 



flint and the best ear of dent corn. We shall also give directions as to 

 labeling the ears. A list of four hundred and forty schools that took 

 part in the exhibit at the College last year will be included. 



For the use of the teacher prior to receiving the November leaflet, 

 we include at this time several Corn Day programs as submitted by the 

 schools celebrating Corn Day last year; also a statement by Professor 

 Gilbert of the points to be considered in selecting corn for seed, as follows: 



1 . Shape of ears. — A perfect ear of corn should be full and strong in 

 the middle part, indicating a strong constitution. It should retain this 

 size to near the tip and butt, thus forming as nearly as possible 

 a cylindrical ear. 



2. Butts of ears. — The rows of kernels should extend well down over 

 the butts of the ears, thus giving an ear of better appearance and con- 



