Improving Corn by Seed Selection. 



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seed retained from the ears planted in 1909, take those sacks numbered to 

 correspond with the rows which were selected in 1909 as superior, mix the 

 seed from these sacks together thoroughly and plant in the isolated plat. 

 By this method it will be noted all of the seed planted will be known 

 to have come from an ear of high producing power and maturing well 

 in general, these points having been determined the preceding year. 



Fig. 5. — Product from 2 ^ hill progeny ; rows graded into piles of ripe and un- 

 ripe ears. 



The general crop this season is planted from the ears selected from 

 the trial plat in 1909. 



When the small isolated plat from the select ears ripens in the fall, 

 carefully examine and select the best twenty-five ears which preserve 

 carefully as in other cases for continuing the selection, 



