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MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



wide-furrowed character, but for Missouri we should select the more 

 compact ears, ears in which there is just as little lost space as possible. 

 Reference to the photograph will show what is meant by wide and narrow 

 furrows between rows. The ear on the right shows very wide furrows, 

 the one in the middle a medium width and the one to the left very nar- 

 row space between the rows. 



Butts and Tips. — The butts and tips should be well filled out with 

 deep regular kernels. This is important because it gives more corn to 

 the ear. The characters of the butt are more important in determining 

 the ears to select than those of the tip since they are capable of being 

 transmitted with greater certainty. The tip oi the ear is afifected quite 

 largely by season and soil conditions or it may be injured during pol- 

 lination, thus preventing a proper filling out. 



Eirs sliowin'^ ii variation In space between rows. 



The kernels at the butt should be uniformly and compactly arranged 

 about a clean cup shaped depression, the diameter of the scar whore the 

 sliank was attached being: about three-fourths of an inch in diameter for 



