Corn Groivers' 'Association. 



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Figure 12. — In the high-ear breeding plot in the flftli generation. 



Some of our leading corn growers are advocating a reduction 

 in the standard size of ear in the belief that a longer growing 

 season is necessary for the production of the large type of ear that 

 has been set for the ideal, and that striving to attain this ideal has 

 resulted in lateness in maturity of some of our best varieties. Thi:5 

 is to some extent plausible; but it would seem that the lesson 

 brought out by these experiments is that attention should be given 



