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with a cloth which had been marked off into squares, selected four 

 kernels from each ear of corn, gave each square a number and also 

 numbered the ear, covered the kernels with a damp cloth and put 

 a layer of sawdust on top to hold the heat. About 95 per cent of 

 the ears germinated 100 per cent, and these were selected for seed. 



Grand Champion, 10 ears Johnson County White, Tenth Annual Missouri State Corn 

 Show, grown by Chris Smith, Bunceton, Mo. 



"In the spring papa gave me an acre of ground and said I 

 might enter the Missouri Boys' Corn Growing Contest. I picked 

 the acre out of a field containing probably twelve or thirteen acres. 

 This field had been in clover and timothy, mostly clover. I broke 

 the ground ten or eleven, inches deep just as soon as the ground 

 was dry enough to plow. Shortly after breaking we had a shower 

 which mellowed the ground considerably. As soon as it was dry 

 enough, I dragged the land and a few days later disked it thorough- 

 ly. Before planting I gave it a thorough harrowing, and on, May 

 20th I planted the corn, setting the planter so it would drop one 



Champion, 10 ears Boone County White, young men's class. Tenth Annual Missouri 

 State Corn Show, shown by Chester Matheney, Miami, Mo. 



