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the most of them, have been given due thought, I beheve, by the various 

 corn associations throughout the corn belt, and they have come to an 

 opinion in regard to those various requirements of the corn plant. How 

 closely those opinions agree is one of the important things that we 

 might wish to learn. I believe it will be interesting for me to read to 

 you from this chart which I have prepared outlining differences in the 

 score card for corn, gotten out by the Agricultural Experiment Stations 

 for the states of Ohio, Nebraska and our own State, compared one with 

 the other. 



UNIFORMITY. 



Ohio 15 ■^Missouri , 10 Nebraska 5 



SHAPE AND SIZE OF KERNEL. 



Ohio 15 Missouri 10 Nebraslta 5 



MATURITY AND SEED CONDITION. 



Ohio 15 Missouri 15 Nebraslca 5 



(Notice how regularly it is maliing an entire diversity of 300 per cent.) 

 SPACE BETWEEN ROWS AND BETWEEN KERNELS IN THE ROW. 



Ohiol lO^Missourl 5 Nebraska 5 



COLOR GRAIN AND COB. 



Ohio 10 Missouri 10 Nebraska 10 



[(The only thing the three agree on.) 

 UNIFORMITY OF KERNEL. 



Ohio 5 Missouri 10 Nebraska 6 



LENGTH OF EAR. 



Ohio 10 Missouri Nebraska 10 



CIRCUMFERENCE. 



Ohio 5 Missouri Nebraska 5 



BUTTS. 



Ohio 5 Missouri 10 Nebraska 5 



TIPS. 



Ohio 5 Missouri 5 Nebraska 10 



PER CENT OF GRAIN. 



Ohio 5 Missouri 15 Nebraska 20 



(Total difference in extremes of 400 per cent.) 



Now the thing that comes up before the class of people we have 

 present at this time is this : We need to make an exhibit ear of corn 

 to command all those states. Almost all of the judges who have had 

 considerable experience in the different states all agree upon the in- 

 dividual ear or individual exhibit as being the best one. Then, if that is 

 true, and this is the measure, the basis of our consideration, for those spe- 

 cific requirements, are we not up to that point where we could well afford 

 to devote some time, even considerable time, to the matter of allotting 

 a number of points to those different requirements that would be a 

 little more nearly uniform with each other; otherwise I think they are 

 somewhat misleading. I think work in that line should be carried on 

 by the practical farmer — the man who raises corn for sale by the bushel. 

 I think, to, that a little more detailed work on that line in the experi- 

 menting on the requirements of the score card would be a good line 

 of work to follow out. "Now," one might say, "wherein do those 



